Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware . |
| 2 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | We 've got the French to thank for the explosion of patterned underthings in the 1980s . |
| 4 | The police had been convinced it was a genuine accident that took his life ( and that of his mistress ) but after what she 'd been through , after what she had discovered , Donna could not believe that men willing to kill for the possession of a book had not taken the life of the man she 'd loved . |
| 5 | WWR would probably pass to another country for chairmanship but it is a move which I suspect British WW racers would be prepared to accept for the benefit of WWR as a whole . |
| 6 | I am not prepared to accept for the rest of the country the idea that , from now until the year dot , either everyone will have to struggle across London to get to Waterloo , which is how things will start , or worse , under the new madness that has been conjured up , everyone will have to struggle out to Stratford to catch the connections for the continent . |
| 7 | That is , there is an imputed income that might be proxied by the market wage required to buy in the domestic work of the wife or , more appropriately , the necessary compensating variation ( the minimum sum acceptable to compensate for the loss of the services of a non-(market) working wife ) . |
| 8 | Such bodies are set up outside government partly so that they can attract skilled personnel who might not be prepared to work for the core of government ; so that they can develop a high level of expertise in the area they are responsible for ; and so that they can develop policy in an atmosphere divorced from direct party political pressures . |
| 9 | On the majority view the defendant was actually left free to work for a subsidiary of GUS which was not involved in the mail order business in the United Kingdom even though that would have been in clear breach of the restriction . |
| 10 | If you are resident in a country and intend to spend the rest of your days there , it could be sensible to opt for a change of domicile . |
| 11 | ‘ Collectors are very active and are prepared to pay for a painting of a particular breed or artist . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ Swan ventured , ‘ I might be prepared to pay for a copy of the plans . ’ |
| 13 | The P/E ratio may be interpreted as the price investors are willing to pay for a unit of earnings . |
| 14 | This ratio gives investors a common yardstick to measure the attitude of the market as a whole to all companies regardless of size or industry by reducing the comparison to the simple question ‘ How much is the market willing to pay for a unit of earnings ? ’ . |
| 15 | The demand curve DD shows how much consumers are willing to pay for the output of the chemical producer . |
| 16 | Nicolo Sabatini still thought she was a woman who supplemented her income through occasional dalliances with men willing to pay for the pleasure of her company . |
| 17 | I relate this because some ten years after the conflict , that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed , my father was called into Mr John Silvers 's study to be told that this very same personage — I will call him simply ‘ the General ’ — was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party , during which my father 's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction . |
| 18 | Can you please arrange for a cheque to be raised , to be made payable to TESOL for the sum of $62.00 US . |
| 19 | As noted in pp 30–31 , the life of this committee is not easy to chart for a number of reasons , and this has made it difficult to determine precisely what has been achieved and to what extent this is attributable to the project . |
| 20 | An officer with private income might find the half-pay given to those no longer employed in active units an agreeable augmentation of his resources , which he might be content to draw for the remainder of his life . |
| 21 | The botanist J. D. Hooker postulated a massive extension of land in the Antarctic to account for the similarity of plants between New Zealand , South America and the islands of the remote south . |
| 22 | Mukerji is not dividing off consumption from production , but showing how it is impossible to account for the development of the latter without considering the history of the former . |
| 23 | Here is supposed to compensate for the lack of a non-combinatorial entropy contribution in the Flory-Huggins treatment . |
| 24 | Parliament imposed excise duties on beer in 1643 to raise money for its army — and the taxes were only supposed to last for the duration of that little upset . |
| 25 | The rolled-over ceiling figure was supposed to allow for an increase of some 300,000 bpd in Kuwaiti output by the end of the third quarter . |
| 26 | This was supposed to account for the value of their contribution towards the stockpiling of plutonium as fuel for future reactors . |
| 27 | Although modern haymaking involves expensive , sophisticated machinery , it is still possible for a smallholder to make and store excellent hay with very modest tackle , and it is hay on which he is most likely to depend for the bulk of his winter keep . |
| 28 | Food was short ; they had no sugar , and the large denominations of Dutch guilder coin in the Company 's cash box were too valuable to exchange for a basket of minute potatoes or two bottles of milk . |
| 29 | For completeness , the remainder of this chapter is devoted to an A to Z list of plumbing tools , materials and equipment that you are likely to need for the majority of jobs around the house . |
| 30 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |