Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 2 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 3 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 4 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 5 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 6 | Today by some bonus of chance they were being left there to enjoy it and had not been interrupted with a call for tea or to go for a swim with Dad who had just come home . |
| 7 | There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs . |
| 8 | We need to shift to the procedure that we would probably have and a tell me if I 'm wrong I thought there was a sort of general agreement without it being sort of firmly agreed that we were going to go for a format of subject specific reports still coming to form tutor who would complete some sort of general report , is that |
| 9 | I would n't like to go for a week in silence . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , perhaps you might allow me to go for a walk from time to time , instead of waiting around in the servants ’ hall . |
| 11 | Spurred originally by demands from the Navy ( for special performance requirements , not well catered for by the US suppliers ) and by internal security needs for faster information , Brazil had determined to go for a policy of self-sufficiency in the underlying technologies . |
| 12 | The spa at Evian has been famous since the 18th century as the place to go for the treatment of kidney stones and urinary infections . |
| 13 | Not long after acquiring Belle Vue Cottage she began to search for a piece of land in the Cotherstone area , preferably a fenced-i-meadow . |
| 14 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 15 | This has resulted in a general failure on the part of local education authorities to plan for the promotion of community languages across all phases of the education system . |
| 16 | we have our ups and downs getting money … its difficult to plan for the future like motor racing when you do n't know how much money is coming in |
| 17 | Following a meeting this morning at the Department of Energy , may I ask him to arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement answering the anger in Coventry , not just about the way in which the pit was closed and the loss of jobs , but the belief that the closure took place to mothball 40 million tonnes of medium sulphur content coal so that , were the Conservatives to be re-elected and the pits privatised , Daw Mill could take that coal out in a UDM pit ? |
| 18 | Confronted with a murder charge , defence lawyers resolved to try for a verdict of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility . |
| 19 | She was the sort of woman who used to come for the weekend at home , sometimes , with a suitcase full of little black dresses for cocktails and dinner . |
| 20 | To adjust for the effect of clustering , χ 2 a d j was calculated by dividing the resulting χ 2 statistic by where m i represents the number of students in the n th cluster ( school ) and ρ represents the intracluster correlation . |
| 21 | Clause four declared that the objective of the party was ‘ to secure for the producers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry , and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible , upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry and service ’ . |
| 22 | In presenting English culture as a transcendental essence inhering within an " organic " national language and a humanistic literary tradition , the goal was to establish for the study of English at the universities a status equivalent to Oxford 's Literae Humaniores . |
| 23 | The need is to change them ; to find for the means of production and provision another structure such as will of its nature avoid the dilemma with which the present dispensation ultimately confronts the country : either unacceptably high and chronic unemployment or unacceptable and uncontrollable inflation , each so operating as eventually to destabilise society to the point where the purposes of liberal democracy can no longer be entertained , let alone fulfilled . |
| 24 | Deprived of its mother 's constant care in those years , it will grow up emotionally handicapped , incapable of forming deep relationships and might steal in an attempt to compensate for a lack of mother love . |
| 25 | How many people try to compensate for a sense of inadequacy or restore their personal confidence by going and buying themselves something whenever they feel miserable ? |
| 26 | It is important therefore to build into the existing legal disincentives a heavy penalty to compensate for the difficulty of detection . |
| 27 | It has even been speculated that a community which has grown up around a manufacturing plant may have a claim for compensation against the owners , if the latter decide to close the plant , in order to compensate for the diminution of land values and the destruction of the local economy . |
| 28 | For the Germans in Prague , gloating over the latest humilation for the East Berlin leadership on the eve of its birthday party seemed to compensate for the conditions of near-vagrancy . |
| 29 | This means that if , for example , the cooking cycle is programmed for two-and-a-half minutes at a required temperature the machine will adjust to compensate for the fall in temperature which occurs when a frozen or chilled food will have been cooked for two-and-a-half minutes at the correct temperature . |
| 30 | There is moderate reduction in lung cancer risk associated with lower tar cigarettes but research in the UK suggests that the assumed health advantages of switching to lower tar may be largely offset by the tendency of smokers to compensate for the reduction in nicotine ( cigarettes lower in tar also tend to be lower in nicotine ) by smoking more or inhaling more deeply [ 4 ] . |