Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reaching this conclusion I have not , of course , overlooked the findings in the special case [ that the owners never intended to affirm the agreement for extra payments ] but I do not think that an intention on the part of the owners not to affirm the agreement for the extra payments , not indicated to the yard , can avail them in view of their overt acts . |
| 2 | Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career . |
| 3 | She knew that she should never have accepted it , she thought , as she knelt on the carpet , placing the mug down beside her and beginning to search the floor for the elusive ring . |
| 4 | SIMON TRACEY last night volunteered to carry the can for the double calamity that denied Sheffield United victory over Wimbledon . |
| 5 | Where the court extends a period at a time when that period has expired and a warrant has been issued , the court is to suspend the warrant for the extended period ; if before the expiration of the extended period the lessee pays into court ( sic ) all the rent arrears and all the costs , the court shall cancel the warrant ( s 138(9) ) . |
| 6 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 7 | Equally , almost half had come to see the company for the first time . |
| 8 | However , he was able to see the reason for the added tension on those days and not to allow that to interfere with his overall progress . |
| 9 | From 1988 , candidates will be able to take CGLI examinations on a modular basis , building up credits rather than having to sit the examination for the full certificate at one time . |
| 10 | The final week of the term entails tutorials where specific guidance is given in the planning of work to support the preparation for the four week school practice . |
| 11 | The Ukrainian Cabinet had allocated 350 million roubles to support the fleet for the subsequent three months , according to a report of Jan. 15 . |
| 12 | Later the Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ) was to maintain that this ceremony had gone out of use and he refused to perform the office for the English pope , Adrian IV , at Sutri in 1155 . |
| 13 | Fulham can now continue to lease the ground for the next decade and have the option to purchase it outright at a price of just under £8 million at any time during the 10 years . |
| 14 | And despite her best entreaties , this Woking housewife achieved instant fame as the first person to miss the deadline for the much-hyped water offer . |
| 15 | However , the Chancellor decided to freeze the cap for the next tax year at its current level of £75,000 . |
| 16 | In 1906 , he went to Cambridge to found the Mission for the Deaf and Dumb , and it was here that he entered University . |
| 17 | Until the moment that the consignee claims the goods after their arrival at destination , the consignor retains the right to change the consignee 's name , provided that if the name is changed the consignor gives the carrier reasonable written notice thereby undertaking to indemnify the carrier for the additional expenses created by the change . |
| 18 | A Bill will be presented to Parliament next session to pave the way for the new ‘ shadow ’ councils to be elected next year so they can take over on April 1 , 1995 . |
| 19 | The previous criticisms revolve around the adequacy of the programme in terms of the ability to meet the timetable for the legislative programme , and of the effective scope and implementation of legislation . |
| 20 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 21 | NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] . |
| 22 | Many , of course , are not , and that would seem to increase the need for the advantaged children to be given some understanding of the harsh world in which many other children have to live . |
| 23 | ROBERT Woodside won the final round of the Northern Ireland hillclimb championship at Cairncastle on the Antrim coast yesterday to secure the title for the first time . |
| 24 | That allegory is complex , but seems mainly concerned with the way in which Frankenstein , standing for science in general , wishes to remould the world for the better , and instead leaves it a worse place than he finds it . |
| 25 | Truman 's victory encouraged him to revive the battle for the Fair Deal . |
| 26 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 27 | If a student asks a question to which the tutor can not give a satisfactory answer on the spur of the moment , he/she should make no attempt to bluff but frankly admit ignorance , and , possibly with the help of the class , set to work to find out the answer , or else undertake to find the answer for the next class . |
| 28 | SIR — The psephologists seem to be struggling to find the explanation for the last-minute swing towards the government in power . |
| 29 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 30 | The situation is otherwise where there is an underlying liability owed by the indemnitee to the indemnifier , so that in the absence of the indemnity the indemnitee would be legally obliged to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of the third party claim . |