Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judges initially were not amenable and denied sellers certain rights both to repossession and to sue for the deficiency . |
| 2 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 3 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 4 | Being anxious is normal , the next stage though is to admit the anxiety and to ask for the faith to see it through . |
| 5 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 6 | If at any stage you wish to go beyond your daily existence and to ask for the knowledge of how you can reach your higher self , then your guide will teach you about the workings of your mind , your intellect and how to rise from your lower mental being into that of perfection . |
| 7 | The first is Thomas v. Sawkins , where a public meeting was called in Glamorgan to protest against the Incitement to Disaffection Bill then before Parliament and to call for the dismissal of the Chief Constable of the county . |
| 8 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |
| 9 | A second response is to weaken the inductivist demand that all non-logical knowledge must be derived from experience and to argue for the reasonableness of the principle of induction on some other grounds . |
| 10 | This association calls upon Council to make strong representations , including the use of the normal information retrieval procedures , to both the Advertising Standards Authority and the Office of Fair Trading to control more effectively the current advertising of and the availability of credit and to press for a tightening of existing guidelines and legislation covering advertising loans , credit cards and other financial services , in order to make the full implications clearer to the consumer ( for example , the nature of a secured loan ) . |
| 11 | The increased processing capacity is required to support the underlying growth trend of 17 per cent per annum in computer usage and to cater for the introduction of new applications . |
| 12 | Following the establishment of a committee to review the Constitution and to prepare for the introduction of a multiparty system [ see p. 36842 ] , the President 's office announced on Nov. 6 that a six-member committee had been set up ; the committee 's members included a leading human rights lawyer , Ismail Ali Jumaale , released from prison on Oct. 25 after four months ' detention . |
| 13 | In these extreme situations the ultimate question was to find a meaning in life and to account for the meaning of death … |
| 14 | They must take action and they must feel free to contact us , feel free to put their point of view across to the headmaster and to ask for a psychologist 's report . |
| 15 | In my earlier reply I told the House what action the United Kingdom Government have taken , in concert with our partners in the European Community and other civilised countries , to condemn utterly the conduct of the Burmese Government and to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 16 | In trying to find answers , managers — whether they were heads or governors — were caught between the need to make progress and to prepare for broad changes which had been widely publicized by central government and to prepare for the necessity that they should lead changes . |
| 17 | And the bravado caused me to forget about caution and to head for a place that I 'd earlier avoided — because it was my favourite night-spot in Uulaa-la . |
| 18 | On July 4 the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was readmitted ( after 20 years ) to the Writers ' Union , which voted to publish his book The Gulag Archipelago and to press for the return of his citizenship ( of which he was stripped in 1974 ) , an idea which the author rejected in December . |
| 19 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 20 | This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided . |
| 21 | 17.32 Development in attainment target 3 is marked by : increasing control over the structure and organisation of different types of text ; a growing ability to handle complex or demanding subject matter ; a widening range of syntactic structures and an expanding vocabulary as the pupil begins to use language that is characteristic of writing rather than speech and to strive for a style that is appropriate to the subject matter and the readership ; a growing capacity to write independently and at length ; an increasing proficiency in re-reading and revising or redrafting the text , taking into account the needs of the audience ; a developing ability to reflect on and talk about the writing process . |