Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I believe that positive steps were needed to build for the future , particularly with the wealth of young talent now available . |
| 2 | Earlier this season Golf Monthly readers were invited to enter for the event : 720 fortunate golfers ( three amateurs and one assistant ) were balloted to compete in eight qualifying events around the British Isles . |
| 3 | Latin American Communists were directed to work for a ‘ democratic-bourgeois ’ revolution . |
| 4 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 5 | Two companies were invited to tender for the supply of 8 PCs ( later increased to 9 ) at identical specifications supplied by C Will . |
| 6 | Delegates elected a 91-member general committee , including four women , and a 17-member executive committee ; places were reserved to allow for the boycotting groups to join later . |
| 7 | The vigil in the longhouses was going to last for a day , and perhaps for part of the next night at least . |
| 8 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 9 | Only these 5 athletes were invited to attend for a medical examinaton . |
| 10 | An impressive range of intellectuals were persuaded to write for the UDC . |
| 11 | A new range of private law orders was introduced to provide for the care and upbringing of children . |
| 12 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 13 | The so-called citizenship campaign was launched in 1894 when members were urged to work for the return of women as poor law guardians . |
| 14 | A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts . |
| 15 | A number of institutions were invited to tender for the contract to carry out research into the needs of the European manager . |
| 16 | Orcs were forced to fight for the Dark Elves in their wars against the High Elves , although in truth the Orcs took little persuading . |
| 17 | The peer review methods adopted by the Research Councils in the evaluation of research proposals were designed to provide for a fair distribution of national R & D funding , ( which some consider to be inadequate at present ) . |
| 18 | If any ambiguity remained , either because multiple readings survived or because some anaphor had several surviving candidates , common sense inference rules were invoked to look for a causal or other link between a proposition in the current sentence and one in an earlier one . |
| 19 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 20 | design requirements were changed to allow for the safe venting of any methane gas |
| 21 | Linear and quadratic time trends were included to control for the upward trend in volume . |
| 22 | Even when all students were required to read for a degree and the certificate course was phased out , the debate — how much of a teacher 's training should be practical and school based , how much purely academic — continued . |
| 23 | Priests were allowed to vote for the first time since the 1920s , due to the repeal of anti-clerical legislation in January [ see p. 38758 ] . |
| 24 | ‘ The Federation grew so quickly that in 1962 provincial councils were established to cater for the influx of new clubs . |
| 25 | He said that colleagues were determined to fight for a pay rise . |
| 26 | BL21(DE3) cells were transformed by each plasmid and the cells were grown at 37°C in an LB medium containing 100µg/ml ampicillin until A 600 reached 0.6 , at which time IPTG was added to a final concentration of 1.0mM and the cells were allowed to grow for an additional 3 hours . |