Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You have tried to either force a user to accept responsibility for a Software Performance Report ( SPR ) ( using option 3.8.0 — Force User To Accept SPR ) or to submit a Software Status Report ( SSR ) ( using option 4.3.0 — Submit SSR ) , without having the privilege SPR SSR CONTROLLER .
2 I have not described a tenacious battle to secure compensation for a number of distinguished urologists who contracted hepatitis , believedly at a medical banquet , and for whom at the end of the day a moderate degree of compensation was — against considerable odds — secured .
3 I move the petition to be presented from persons requesting the Council to provide facilities for a community centre and youth club at the be received .
4 He will also be aware that the planning system can now be used to require a developer to make provision for a percentage of homes specifically for young people who can not afford to buy on the open market .
5 The Waltham Forest CHC not only was in disagreement with Mezey but also questioned the length of time it had taken the RHA to make time for a discussion of the report ( one year ) .
6 Just why a partner or a member of the family is so opposed to certain changes is hard to fathom but since the Full Moon on the 14th cuts right across the home and career angles of your horoscope , you may have to turn your full attention to work matters for a while and leave property or domestic issues waiting on hold until towards end the of the month .
7 Not so guiltless , however , that he did not plunge into the warm , lively auditorium with a fervent desire to avoid introspection for a while .
8 She does not become criminally liable merely by assisting her husband to escape punishment for a crime which she knows him to have committed ; and it is only within certain limits that husband and wife are competent , and within narrower limits that they are compellable , to give evidence against one another , in criminal proceedings .
9 Sir James has been lobbying the prime minister for a scheme to use official aid money to buy up Third World debt , sell off the principal , and swap the right to interest payments for a lease on tropical rain forests .
10 A SECOND appeal against East Hampshire District Council 's refusal to allow permission for a house on land at Old School House , Crabtree Lane , Headley has been turned down by a government inspector .
11 Tamar 's tone was almost vindictive as she strode briskly from the room to join Stephen for a ride round the estate .
12 Cross , 19 , admitted it was a wrench to leave Plymouth for a club at the other end of the country .
13 So I went to ask Mr Rochester 's permission to leave Thornfield for a while .
14 The Hatherley ball to raise money for a hospice charity had become an important even ; in Gloucestershire because Ayling did what people craved on such occasions : he brought them the rich and famous whom they usually saw only on their television screens or in their newspapers .
15 You are lumbered with a social event to raise money for a car park steward
16 And it 's a quality he put to good use when he performed a parachute jump to raise money for a girl who suffers from a rare heart condition .
17 I do feel it is a pity you sent a single person to test facilities for a family .
18 ‘ This , ’ said Allen , ‘ was the case of my mother , for , my father dying , we were turned out of our homestead in the Dale to make way for a nephew of a new steward . ’
19 Beyond them , a narrow fold in the hillside was being filled with rubbish to provide space for a car park .
20 Secure accommodation in child care us a chameleon-like provision : sometimes a last-ditch strategy to avoid custody for a child otherwise bound there .
21 Leaving an OSF/Motif version of its 4GL++ object-based graphical development environment to tread water for a while , Informix Inc , Mountain View , California , is hurrying along Microsoft Corp Windows and NT ports in a bid for a quick return on its investment .
22 TRANSPORT Minister Roger Freeman is to visit Darlington this week to discuss plans for a supermarket on a site occupied by the Caldaire bus company .
23 After his tragic early death last year , staff at the centre held a collection to raise money for a memorial trophy in recognition of his work with young people at the centre .
24 Although the firm may negotiate within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions on behalf of a client , it is not part of the firm 's role to take decisions for a client .
25 Although the firm may negotiate within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions on behalf of a client , it is not part of the firm 's role to take decisions for a client .
26 A REFUSAL by the Republic 's Government to provide funds for a memorial to the 22 people killed in the loyalist bomb attack on Dublin in 1974 has angered the Dublin City Council .
27 He managed to increase the staff in two ways ; first by getting the endowment for the chair of Greek freed from the attachment to a canonry and then the endowment of the canonry used to give a second professorship of theology ; secondly by persuading the vice-chancellor to find money for a lectureship in New Testament studies .
28 To the covered fish market at dawn to buy fish for a bouillabaisse , which held no romance for her for she had not then read Ford 's description of the great bouillabaisse in the Calanques , nor Elizabeth David 's description of the colours and patterns of fish on the stalls .
29 The leave-taking this time was formal , bearing none of the displays of emotion that had marked Prince Richard 's departure — the queen-dowager was but bidding farewell , it was thought , to her son 's bride , a young lady who was going to the royal palace within the Tower to keep company for a time with her husband .
30 Laughton , the former Widnes boss who first tempted the ex-Llanelli half-back star to switch codes for a record £250,000 fee four years ago , said : ‘ I have not been in touch with Widnes about Jonathan Davies and it has never been discussed by our board .
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