Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 10 | The amount of money that people are prepared to pay for the meal plus the overheads and the establishment . |
| 11 | The demand curve DD shows how much consumers are willing to pay for the output of the chemical producer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Greenspan also said it would be wrong to pay for the war with a tax increase or surcharge . |
| 14 | Can you please arrange for a cheque to be raised , to be made payable to TESOL for the sum of $62.00 US . |
| 15 | Many old people in particular find it impossible to retire for the night without washing up and leaving everything tidy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Here is supposed to compensate for the lack of a non-combinatorial entropy contribution in the Flory-Huggins treatment . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | New pay recommendations are due in the new year and , although Mr Clarke has told the review body that there must be pay restraint , ministers appear likely to press for the award to be met . |
| 22 | Well-known UNCLOS personalities , such as Paul Engo , are likely to compete for the post with Scandinavians such as J. Evensen of Norway or ( a rising star ) Peter Bruckner of Denmark . |
| 23 | Mr Gould , a prominent Euro-sceptic in the early 1980s , is likely to argue for the commitment to maintaining sterling 's value within the Exchange Rate Mechanism to be ditched , to increase a Labour government 's room for manoeuvre . |
| 24 | This was supposed to account for the value of their contribution towards the stockpiling of plutonium as fuel for future reactors . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Indeed , the initial experiences of the ECSC had led some to argue that rather than pursue a sector by sector strategy , it would be far easier and more logical to plan for the integration of whole economies . |
| 28 | There must have been other factors present to account for the size of deposits created by the credit multiplier effect described earlier . |
| 29 | However , some authors ( notably Scholle , 1971 and Wachs & hein , 1974 ) are of the opinion that pressure solution is too late to account for the origin of most burial cements . |
| 30 | Equally impossible would be an adequate explanation of taste-changes : is it reasonable to account for the advent of jazz , rock 'n' roll , beat and punk in terms of ‘ pseudo-individualization ’ within an underlying process of simple reproduction ? |