Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fair is to be kept ‘ … upon the fourth day of July , being St Martin 's Day , and so to continue for the space of seven days … ’ , but the date changed to the 15th July when the Gregorian Calendar was adopted . |
| 2 | These policies have , in many cases , been taken out by individuals on low incomes merely to provide for the cost of funeral expenses . |
| 3 | Neither services nor any other sector increased sufficiently to compensate for the loss of jobs in manufacturing . |
| 4 | First , any new source of revenue should be capable of producing a yield large enough to provide for the possibility of a substantial reduction in both grant and domestic rates . |
| 5 | Erm obviously to look for the start of a campaign team as soon as possible . |
| 6 | * the user has perhaps to budget for the cost of the item , and will wish to maximise the value for money he or she can obtain from the expenditure ; * the user has to cope with the consequences of late delivery , faulty products , breakdowns and servicing requirements ( etc ) ; * the user will be concerned with product reliability and supplier reputation . |
| 7 | Part of the art of film making is to know how long to allow for the length of each shot . |
| 8 | The structure of the developing national authority has been both diffuse enough to prevent it from being destroyed by any one single sweep of arrests ( there have been more than 50,000 arrests since the Intifada 's outbreak ) , and coherent enough to allow for the existence of a unified resistance strategy . |
| 9 | There is some evidence of ribbon development along Watling Street on the Strood side of the Medway , but this suburb was probably not large enough to account for the size of the cemeteries , which date from the middle of the first century until at least the third . |
| 10 | That is n't enough to account for the difference between £27.25 to hire a Cessna 152 for an hour at Canterbury NZ and £76.85 for a similar machine at Cambridge UK ( just to take one example ) . |
| 11 | This group must have exerted a considerable attraction , enough to account for the growth of a small community containing shops , a bakery and blacksmiths . |
| 12 | They 've clubbed together to pay for the instalation of two video cameras , which scan the only road into the neighbouring villages of Purton and Halmore . |
| 13 | The problem was resolved by writing our own information retrieval program which met most of the requirements as they then existed and , with much thought being given on the subject , was designed to be flexible enough to cater for the majority of future needs . |
| 14 | In the past , batch production has been difficult to automate because traditional control devices were neither cheap nor flexible enough to cater for the need for frequent readjustments of machinery . |
| 15 | ‘ No particular place , just to drive for the joy of it , side by side into the rising sun . |
| 16 | I always thought he was largely to blame for the relegation in 1982 . |
| 17 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
| 18 | Would somebody with expertise here like to define for the rest of us what what , what differentiates somebody with a , a , an eating disorder , er from someone who 's er a chronic dieter or a chronic worrier or no not a chronic dieter at all , but someone who just thinks about it a lot ? |
| 19 | I do not think that the speakers are totally to blame for the lack of picked note definition either . |
| 20 | I doubted it because whatever the efficacy of Dr Gyggle 's treatment and however convincing his explanation of how a lonely and fucked-up boy built up a delusion both to compensate for the lack of a father and punish himself for his own Oedipal crime , I still could n't convince myself that I was entirely rid of my mage . |
| 21 | In effect these new arrangements are both to pay for the reconstruction of Iraq and Kuwait after the war and to provide a mechanism to redistribute Gulf oil wealth throughout the Middle East and North Africa . |
| 22 | Desertification , caused by over-grazing and deforestation , may be partly to explain for the rise in global temperatures , according to a study by Roger Balling of the Office of Climatology in Arizona State University . |
| 23 | The minister said that employers were also to blame for the fall-off in recruits , describing them as ‘ much less supportive ’ of part-time soldiers than they were in the past . |
| 24 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |
| 25 | The slump in household saving , from 14% of disposable income in 1980 to just 5% last year , was partly to blame for the rise in inflation that now plagues the government . |
| 26 | The Plec is certainly partly to blame for the decline of your Amazon Sword plants . |
| 27 | In common with many other Latin American countries , it was the weakness of technical and administrative institutions in charge of peasant agriculture that was partly to blame for the failure of a rural development policy . |
| 28 | Recent studies by the authority have shown that partially treated sewage going into the River Severn from the plant uses up valuable oxygen and is partly to blame for the death of some fish . |
| 29 | Diego Maradona was partly to blame for the brawl between Sevilla and Cadiz players at the end of Sunday 's Spanish league match , according to police . |
| 30 | Such data require special methods of analysis , particularly to account for the influence of omitted , possibly unmeasurable factors , which affect behaviour . |