Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Socialist group in the European parliament has called for the EC to set more ambitious targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 2 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 3 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 4 | She is unable to gauge his mood , her feminine antennae have folded for the night . |
| 5 | THE on-going recession means to respite for the hard pressed Citizens Advice Bureau . |
| 6 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 7 | Social progress means heading for the city , dropping Aymara or Quechua in favour of Spanish , adopting modern dress and weakening ties with the countryside . |
| 8 | But , while social programmes continue to pay for the largesse for defence , scientific research and development has been spared . |
| 9 | A number of British garages refused to quote for the job directly , giving only-their hourly-rates and an estimate of how long it would take . |
| 10 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 11 | The British Museum wants to recover for the nation the 2,000-year-old bronze Roman plaque which fetched £26,000 at auction after its removal one night from land in North Yorkshire . |
| 12 | America is likely to have a current-account surplus in the first or second quarter of this year , thanks to the $40 billion-50 billion promised by foreign governments to help pay for the cost of the Gulf war . |
| 13 | Giry 's models were the volumes of Jahrbucher ( year-books ) which German scholars had produced for the reigns of other Carolingians : strictly chronological accounts conceived quite literally as annals . |
| 14 | Only Simon Woods of the league 's five top players has qualified for the semi-finals at Witham tomorrow ( 7.15 ) . |
| 15 | For loading and unloading sacks of coal , and driving a lorry round the villages , that was £440 per annum more than a Senior Scientific Officer earned slaving for the defence of his country . |
| 16 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 17 | The agricultural sector managed to provide for the food needs of Japan 's growing population . |
| 18 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 19 | In the event the vast majority continued to make for the seaside resorts in the area , leaving the conservationists to fend off the more predatory designs of farmers and water authorities . |
| 20 | Under headlines such as ‘ Fiend 's third victim ’ ( Daily Mirror ) and ‘ Terror of tape bondage rapist ’ ( Sun ) , it was noted how ‘ a sticky-tape sex-fiend has struck for the third time ’ bringing ‘ terror to a triangle of Hampshire towns ’ . |
| 21 | Similar work has begun for the west Birmingham and south central Leeds areas . |
| 22 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 23 | It was estimated that the consequent loss of exports and the extra imports needed to compensate for the shortfall could cost the economy up to US$2,000,000 million in 1990 . |
| 24 | In Guatemala , a beautiful country with a superficial air of tranquillity , the civil war has lasted for the past 30 years . |
| 25 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 26 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 27 | Personal survival entailed preparing for the possibility that it could n't be stopped . |
| 28 | At the next council meeting on January 3 the Liberal Democrats intend to call for the resignation of the three — Price , the council leader Clive Betts , and Mrs J C Barton , chairman of the education committee , all Labour members — on the grounds of conflict of interest . |
| 29 | Several rents are due but it may be necessary to withdraw money from the National Savings Account to pay for the booklet , ‘ A Guide to Services , Facilities and Interest Groups in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains ’ and a new supply of posters . |
| 30 | An analysis of soil samples from a Kurdish village has proved for the first time that in 1988 Iraqi armed forces used nerve gas as well as mustard gas in air raids against civilians . |