Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nicely placed observer speculates that if Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture , does well with the Destiny desktop operating system , that that will convince Novell chief Ray Noorda to go for a bigger piece of USL : he already owns the largest outside share . |
| 2 | Many were also planning to change their contracts : 62 per cent were planning to cease a contract that existed the previous year ; 71 per cent to contract with a new provider ; 50 per cent to reduce volume more than 10 per cent with an existing provider and 78 per cent to contract for a greater volume of care per pound spent . |
| 3 | ( iv ) Pupils should have opportunities to write for a wider range of communicative or informative purposes , including : describing , explaining , giving instructions , reporting , expressing a point of view , persuading , comparing and contrasting ideas , arguing for different points of view . |
| 4 | In this context the authors note that ‘ equalizing ’ income differentials ( higher income to compensate for the lower attractiveness of some jobs ) are normally swamped by ‘ accentuating ’ differentials ( such as status and recognition following high income ) . |
| 5 | It also revealed the paltry sums thrown at such communities by BC to compensate for the lower quality of life they are forced to endure . |
| 6 | Agree either that there continue to be no lower limit for the remuneration certificate jurisdiction or that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide for a lower limit of £100 profit costs . |
| 7 | On the one hand this can be attributed to an unwillingness by politicians to provide for a greater disclosure of information . |
| 8 | In the UK , attempts to gain greater value for money have been related more to the present depressed economic climate than any need to provide for the wider accountability of government expenditure . |
| 9 | The long-standing US-Japan Cooperative Earthquake Research Program , which the National Science Foundation and the Japanese government pay for , decided to look for a cheaper way of doing things . |
| 10 | This print was probably intended as the frontispiece of a book — Goya was one of the first painters to look for a wider audience for his work . |
| 11 | Perhaps i i it 'll encourage us to look for a shorter route through to the , the , the solution . |
| 12 | Like Debbie , Fay starts from the premise that the point of doing a degree is to get a job , as we can see in her statement that science students are able to apply for a wider range of jobs than arts graduates . |
| 13 | In 1973 , the board used the public outcry over leaked reports of proposed cuts in the network ‘ to press for a higher level of investment , which they now thought they had a chance of being granted ’ ( Pryke and Dodgson 1975 : 23 ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps most disturbing from the point of view of the central authorities , the party organisations in the three republics , particularly in Lithuania , began to press for a greater degree of independence , establishing direct links with outside ruling parties and adopting their own programme and statute , within or if necessary outside the framework of the CPSU as a whole . |
| 15 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 16 | In Sabah the United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) won 14 of 20 federal seats , and was expected to press for a better return from the exploitation of Sabah 's natural resources . |
| 17 | Reports indicated that agreement on the final communiqué was reached only after France had decided not to press for a clearer recognition of a European defence identity distinct from NATO . |
| 18 | By the mid-1930s male civil servants could choose to ‘ allocate ’ part of their pensions ; that is , to opt for a lower pension on retirement , so that if they died first their wives would get a modest continuing pension ( ibid . , |
| 19 | When Coolidge declined to run for a further term in 1928 , the Republicans chose as their candidate one of the most distinguished members of their administrations in the 1920s , Herbert Hoover . |
| 20 | This was a necessity to qualify for a later call to the Bar . |
| 21 | Our Solar System is certainly a prerequisite for our existence , and one might extend this to the whole of our galaxy to allow for an earlier generation of stars that created the heavier elements . |
| 22 | The meeting was preceded by calls for the disbandment of the organization but ended with an agreement to review existing COMECON financial and trade arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles . |
| 23 | The decisions , tantamount to a significant downgrading of COMECON ( as also indicated by a sharp staff reduction at the Moscow secretariat ) , and which were expected to be approved at a future summit meeting , were the outcome of an undertaking made at the summit meeting in January [ see p. 37202 ] to review existing COMECON arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles . |
| 24 | For larger loads the time taken to reach the first step position is longer and therefore the time between successive step commands is automatically adjusted to allow for the slower rate of acceleration . |
| 25 | The ends of the coil should be soldered to the termination strips to allow for the later attachment of heavier gauge connecting cable . |
| 26 | The code proposed the creation of a two-tier administrative system to allow for the easier processing of non-controversial mergers and takeovers , the referring of important or unusual cases to a full Takeovers Committee ( which would be renamed the Takeover and Mergers Panel ) , the right of appeal to a new independent Takeovers Appeal Panel , and the retention of 5 per cent as the maximum amount of shares which a person controlling between 35 and 50 per cent of shares in a company could further purchase in any 12-month period . |
| 27 | It is far more difficult to account for a further type of confusion . |
| 28 | His solution to the problem of scholarship is to call for a closer alliance between literary criticism and the historical study of language , to be achieved through the kind of emphasis on literary language which he himself had favoured since the 1930s . |
| 29 | is a way of demonstrating to parents both the methodology of drama and the value of it ; it 's a way of getting parents to argue for a greater emphasis on drama in the school . |
| 30 | The British public was not prepared either to pay for the higher cost of the non-marketed sector through higher taxation rates . |