Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Save the horses ! ’ , as the chief splashed across the creek to gather mounts for the fleeing families . |
| 2 | It has just announced special tools which will allow developers to write products for the unlaunched Windows NT which can run immediately on the new Windows 3.1 . |
| 3 | On the other hand , we now may be able to provide explanations for the measured values of some quantities like the cosmological constant . |
| 4 | The take-home pay of the young will have to be substantially reduced to provide pensions for the increased numbers of elderly . |
| 5 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 6 | Of course the effect on the domestic price level will be influenced by the importance of imports in the home economy and by the ability of domestic industry to provide substitutes for the higher-priced imports . |
| 7 | ‘ Or else , ’ chipped in Tundrish , ‘ you 're liable to provoke duels for the wrong reasons . ’ |
| 8 | Furthermore , this focus on child support does nothing to compensate women for the real inequalities that marriage and child-rearing brings . |
| 9 | There is no point in having to wait weeks for the concrete scaffolders , nor is there any point in having the site cluttered with pipes that are only to be needed later . |
| 10 | Facing a financially bleak Christmas , he scrimped together every last penny to afford presents for the four boys . |
| 11 | In order to achieve that , it is obviously necessary to discuss arrangements for the next elections — the 1995 elections — with the Chinese Government when the time is right . |
| 12 | This year the Railway has introduced a fully computerised reservation system to handle bookings for the 11,000 seats that are available . |
| 13 | ‘ Not to run errands for the powerful ones of this city . |
| 14 | The wine celebrates life , the charoseth is for the bricks they were forced to bake to build cities for the loathed taskmasters . ’ |
| 15 | At the end of the war Lloyd George promised ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ , and one of the first pieces of postwar legislation was a Housing Act that provided government subsidies to local authorities to build houses for the working classes . |
| 16 | A lot of the stone went to build houses for the local peasants , who apparently had a tough time . |
| 17 | In particular , the technical panels set up to consider workplans for the administrative networks component of telematics are currently in suspension , but the Commission has urged that replies to the questionnaires should still be sent in since these will be worked on and evaluated in the meantime . |
| 18 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 19 | An application from Mrs. D. Espin on behalf of the 74th Juniper Green Rainbow Unit to hire the hall on Monday 24th February for a Tupperware and Coffee Evening etc , to raise funds for the sick kids appeal . |
| 20 | An application from Mrs. D. Espin on behalf of the 74th Juniper Green Rainbow Unit to hire the hall on Monday 24th February for a Tupperware and Coffee Evening etc , to raise funds for the sick kids appeal . |
| 21 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 22 | Applications are processed , predominantly on the basis of tape exchange with PCAS , and visits and interviews are arranged , using subsystems to record the details , to print checklists for the many interviewers involved , and to print personalized labels for visitor/ interviewee information packs . |
| 23 | They were assigned to police stations with slight training to undertake chores for the regular police and caused an all-round dilution of competence . |
| 24 | This GLEB report focused mainly on the manufacturing aspect of the independent sector and recommended the setting up of a modern plant to make records for the smaller companies . |