Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 2 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it may be prudent to provide expressly for the payment of rent where , for example , the property remains empty while the tenant is seeking to assign his lease . |
| 4 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 5 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 6 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts . |
| 7 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts |
| 8 | The local education authority , and participating employers , in planning to work together for the benefit of young people , will need , early on , to clarify their modus operandi . |
| 9 | But to be effective they all have to learn to work together for the good of the school . |
| 10 | Accompanied by two of his closest advisers , foermer Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Sanya Dharmasakdi , he appealed to them to work together for the sake of the people and the economy . |
| 11 | Staffing standards therefore exceed the 4/73 baseline by a fifth and that should be welcomed so far as it is an attempt to provide favourably for a group in need . |
| 12 | They point out , for example , that Japanese companies in particular have for some time been making strenuous efforts to recruit labour which is not so much cheap but flexible and prepared to work hard for the company in question . |
| 13 | If you are planning to work overseas for an organisation with which you are not very familiar , it makes sense to check that they are a bona fide , reputable organisation with a good track record of treating executive employees fairly . |
| 14 | Following the thought of my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) , may I invite the Minister to come there for a walk with his dog on Christmas day to envisage the damage that the new road will cause ? |
| 15 | Support continued to come forward for the Appeal from Branches , individuals and organisations . |
| 16 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 17 | The awkwardness will probably prompt you to talk just for the sake of filling in the space , and you may say more than you wanted to or even find yourself talking rubbish . |
| 18 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 19 | In the case of this applicant , he would have been happy to have obtained any place in the service , for he hoped to arrange thereafter for a transfer to the stations which he really desired , Coldingham or Eyemouth , where he had business interests . |
| 20 | You will only have to cancel once for the message to be understood . |
| 21 | You should continue to walk aerobically for a minimum of 30 minutes each day , four times a week ; and you should continue to use the low fat Walking Diet recipes and adapt them to your own diet . |
| 22 | As I have argued all along , although a consideration of possible criteria is important in a wider context , the idea of numerical identity can not be literally " defined " in terms of the criteria of re-identification of particulars , which means that we shall have to look elsewhere for an answer to our problem . |
| 23 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 24 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 25 | Any adequate expulsion clause would refer specifically to professional misconduct ( Clause 19.01.8 ) , but it would not be unusual also to impose positive duties on partners : ( 1 ) to apply timeously for the replacement of their practising certificates . |
| 26 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 27 | Even the judicial system in the Dutch republic , in so many ways still among the most advanced parts of Europe , suffered from the lack of a powerful monarchy able to press effectively for the sort of reform which rulers in many less developed areas were now forcing upon their subjects . |
| 28 | It did not attempt to do so for every council in the country . |
| 29 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 30 | ‘ 2(1) The powers of the Director under this section shall be exercisable , but only for the purposes of an investigation under section 1 above , or , on a request made by the Attorney-General of the Isle of Man , Jersey or Guernsey , under legislation corresponding to that section and having effect in the Island whose Attorney-General makes the request , in any case in which it appears to him that there is good reason to do so for the purpose of investigating the affairs , or any aspect of the affairs , of any person . |