Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 2 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 3 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 4 | To avoid any more personal suffering I say he should contemplate going now to give his successor the chance to build a proper team to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 5 | Though his first political sympathies were with the Union and the right-wing of the Conservative party , William Joyce subsequently held English misgovernment to blame for the loss of Ireland . |
| 6 | There has , however , been a very high price to pay for the opportunity offered by this large ‘ home market ’ . |
| 7 | This moral variety may seem a high price to pay for the resolution of the problem of holism . |
| 8 | Cut out the square or rectangle just inside the marked line to allow for the thickness of the tin . |
| 9 | Furthermore , he had to counter the claim of the French crown to legislate for the duchy . |
| 10 | It should be stressed that similar conclusions to those of figure 7.4 hold when comparisons are made within a particular social class to control for the fact that higher social classes are both more likely to marry late and to be owner-occupiers . |
| 11 | But for an invitation from the Foreign Office to work for the World Bank in 1968 , his career could have been very different . |
| 12 | This was firmly rejected by the staff-side reps , who have maintained throughout the negotiations that the original agreement on LW should be adhered to , that it should be considered separately from the rest of the negotiations , and that LW needs to be a flat-rate , across-the-board payment to compensate for the costs incurred by working in London . |
| 13 | But Stroud District Council now wants the extra money to cover for the people who have n't paid ANY of their poll tax . |
| 14 | After official clearance to play for the Republic of Ireland , Kernaghan could have been in the squad for a World Cup qualifying game and a United States tour . |
| 15 | Sharon was employed on a part-time basis to care for the warden 's two-year-old daughter . |
| 16 | There 's no extra cash to pay for the search ; fire chiefs are just hoping their alarm call is answered . |
| 17 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 18 | When there is insufficient money in the estate of the deceased person to pay for the funeral and if the person arranging the funeral is likely to have a problem meeting the cost then sections 4 and 5 of this factsheet should be read before making any arrangements . |
| 19 | The position of a secured creditor is to be contrasted with that of an unsecured creditor who merely has a personal claim to sue for the payment of his debt and to invoke the available legal processes for the enforcement of any judgment that he may obtain . |
| 20 | Legislation enacted in November 1987 amended the 1980 pre-independence Constitution to provide for the creation of the post of executive President , combining the posts of head of state and head of government . |
| 21 | It was statistical analysis of trends in admissions to and discharges from mental hospitals that had led central government to plan for the redundancy of the hospitals . |
| 22 | There is no right in Community law to have a lawyer present for such meetings , although normally the Commission will allow a limited time to elapse for the parties to acquire legal representation . |
| 23 | 2.43 Lord Reid would have added £500 on the annual dependency to allow for the shortfall created by the incidence of taxation and that , of course , is a factor that should be taken into account when assessing what the dependency is . |
| 24 | But she has no intention of changing course now as she believes that , run as separate entities , the shops remain manageable and provide a strong incentive to succeed for the franchisees . |
| 25 | A herd of cattle may seem an odd place to look for the meaning of life but it fits neatly with current American pop- psychology : no doubt these urban liberals have packed copies of Robert Bly 's ‘ Iron Jack ’ in their saddlebags . |
| 26 | The idea that organisms or even whole species adapt in order to survive is a useful explanatory hypothesis to account for the acceptance or rejection of small genetic mutations . |
| 27 | Situated within a tradition of sociological inquiry into working-class attitudes and behaviour , it is a theoretically sophisticated attempt to account for the dynamics of political change in a particular locality . |
| 28 | Since α is solvent and temperature dependent a more characteristic dimension to measure for the polymer is which can be calculated from light scattering in a theta-solvent , or indirectly as next described . |
| 29 | If the SARU do not want to make the same mistake , they could organise a tour of South Africa by their proposed national team to prepare for the visits of New Zealand and Australia in August . |
| 30 | ( There was of course little incentive to plan for the future when work was often obtained on a casual basis and wages were irregular . ) |