Example sentences of "[to-vb] for the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |
| 2 | Pensions are usually compared by converting the annual pension paid to an average earner into ecu , using ‘ purchasing power parity ’ to accommodate for the various costs of living in each country . |
| 3 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 4 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 5 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 6 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 7 | The contras ' new military commander , Israel Galeano ( who replaced Enrique Bermúdez , the organization 's nominal head , in early February ) , said , however , that the contras intended to wait for the formal handover of power before disbanding . |
| 8 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 9 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 10 | I am just not prepared to wait for the green shoots of recovery . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Chirac seems to want to wait for the presidential election in 1995 . |
| 12 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 13 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 14 | Best to go for the well-behaved species like O. adenophylla , with its pinkish lilac flowers , which are sometimes a rich magenta . |
| 15 | Choukeir will now decide whether to go for the French equivalent of an appeal ; a cancellation in the Supreme Court . |
| 16 | Let's , let's just put it here , A minus B times A minus B. Now it 's tempting to go for the easier ones in it as you did , so we 'll do the A squared , okay that 's no problem . |
| 17 | It is even possible that if you decide to set up your own business , you may be able to claim for the initial costs of this . |
| 18 | When Dante , the Italian poet , was exiled from his home in Florence , he decided to walk from Italy to Paris , to search for the real meaning of life . |
| 19 | Another generation of Labour leaders , in the 1960s , were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning . |
| 20 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 21 | ( Incidentally never forget to plan for the practical needs of the press when you 're drawing up your arrangements . |
| 22 | help to plan for the future development of the subject area . |
| 23 | Similarly , general practitioners are unlikely to have the management resources to contract for the full range of services required by a local population . |
| 24 | Unfortunately we have had to make some slight changes to the programme today , but hope you will like the idea of all learning something to perform for the final part of the Reunion in November . |
| 25 | The duties of the CCC , which was to work ‘ in close touch ’ with the Central Juvenile Employment Exchange , were to arrange for the vocational guidance of prospective school-leavers and to liaise with exchange officials in registering juveniles and in selecting applicants for interviews . |
| 26 | When pasting your template on the piece of veneer selected for the outline — usually a dark wood — try to arrange for the thinnest parts of the design to run along the grain . |
| 27 | The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them . |
| 28 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 29 | Bush said that Iraq should designate military commanders to meet their coalition counterparts within the next 48 hours to arrange for the military aspects of the ceasefire . |
| 30 | ‘ We must reassure our Protestant brothers and sisters that we will never be made to suffer for the British-sponsored murders of Catholics ’ . |