Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suppliers lost count of the ancient oaks , not to mention the chestnut and cherry trees , cut down to provide panelling for the two grand offices reserved for the couple , but also for hundreds of function rooms and apparatchiks ' offices . |
| 2 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |
| 3 | ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’ |
| 4 | GREEN demonstrators wept yesterday as trees were torn down to make way for a giant Tesco 's . |
| 5 | In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park . |
| 6 | The houses remained until the early 1950s when they were knocked down to make way for the new church . |
| 7 | The church was closed for repair and restoration during the years 1887–8–9 , when the old ruinous south chapel was pulled down to make room for the present commodious aisles , the reason for this being the increase in population due to industrialisation in the village . |
| 8 | In May 1890 , the minutes state that ‘ the old Saloon Shed having been pulled down to make room for the new Paint Shop , a shed is required for the three shunt engines ’ . |
| 9 | The first five items here had to be held over to make space for the 1990 Social List in the March issue … |
| 10 | The cells of our skin are constantly dying and being replaced , the old ones have to be sloughed off to make space for the new . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Slid neatly back to make room for the empty folder are the two full ones I am also working on , labelled in the small neat letters characteristic of this grey pen and these two pink hands . |
| 13 | In the winter of 1956 , he was further irritated by problems with his teeth : he was about to have X-rays for the three which remained to him . |
| 14 | Veljko Kadijevic , the National Defence Minister , in a speech to the Collective State Presidency , responding to the EC peace plan , accused Germany of " being about to attack Yugoslavia for the third time this century , … preparing first for an economic and then a military assault " . |