Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today by some bonus of chance they were being left there to enjoy it and had not been interrupted with a call for tea or to go for a swim with Dad who had just come home . |
| 2 | Failure to pay can result in our applying to the court for power to deduct arrears from your income or to arrange for the sale of your goods to recover the amount due . |
| 3 | A check of the water 's temperature is often made on the spot and smaller samples may also be taken and treated immediately to enable a measurement of dissolved oxygen to be made , or to fix for the presence of certain substances such as cyanide . |
| 4 | Those less wealthy are forced to see their training as a means of gaining work abroad , so as to repay education loans or to pay for the schooling of a younger member of the family . |
| 5 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |
| 6 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 7 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 8 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if the order is opposed , the usual action must be taken to retain and brief counsel , to settle precognitions and to arrange for a hearing before the commissioners . |
| 10 | The new president in office at the EC Social Affairs Council , Tristan Garel-Jones , told the European Parliament in July that he was ready to place a great deal of importance on social problems and to work for the improvement of social conditions for all European citizens . |
| 11 | The TTF undertook to encourage both members and non-members to be aware of where supplies came from , to ensure that timber was bought from suppliers that were committed to " sustainable " resources wherever possible , and to work for the implementation of forest management schemes . |
| 12 | The latter , about which there was little evidence at the time , ( perestroika was just another word in the dictionary ) would be needed to overcome resistance to reform and to compensate for the pain of the economic transition . |
| 13 | This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided . |
| 14 | In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee . |
| 15 | The NAAA and the ADC were formed with a dual purpose : to provide legal protection for Arab-Americans against discrimination , and to lobby for a change in America 's policy towards the Arabs and Israel . |
| 16 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 17 | This association calls upon Council to make strong representations , including the use of the normal information retrieval procedures , to both the Advertising Standards Authority and the Office of Fair Trading to control more effectively the current advertising of and the availability of credit and to press for a tightening of existing guidelines and legislation covering advertising loans , credit cards and other financial services , in order to make the full implications clearer to the consumer ( for example , the nature of a secured loan ) . |
| 18 | On July 4 the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was readmitted ( after 20 years ) to the Writers ' Union , which voted to publish his book The Gulag Archipelago and to press for the return of his citizenship ( of which he was stripped in 1974 ) , an idea which the author rejected in December . |
| 19 | U Aung Shwe , leader of the NLD 's 15-member delegation to the " co-ordination committee " , came under increasing pressure from within the NLD to adopt a tougher line , and to press for the release of all " persons who should be taking part in these talks " . |
| 20 | First , there is the assumption that , provided international law can be made ‘ effective ’ in the sense that governments will abide by its provisions , then it will be sufficient for the peace movement merely to seek ‘ enforcement ’ of those provisions conducive to its aims , and to campaign for the extension of those provisions . |
| 21 | A second response is to weaken the inductivist demand that all non-logical knowledge must be derived from experience and to argue for the reasonableness of the principle of induction on some other grounds . |
| 22 | The first is Thomas v. Sawkins , where a public meeting was called in Glamorgan to protest against the Incitement to Disaffection Bill then before Parliament and to call for the dismissal of the Chief Constable of the county . |
| 23 | In my earlier reply I told the House what action the United Kingdom Government have taken , in concert with our partners in the European Community and other civilised countries , to condemn utterly the conduct of the Burmese Government and to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 24 | However , on Aug. 11 , the day after the summit , he appeared on Tunisian television to condemn the deployment of foreign troops to Saudi Arabia and to call for the conflict to be confined to a " purely Arab framework " . |
| 25 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 26 | In these extreme situations the ultimate question was to find a meaning in life and to account for the meaning of death … |
| 27 | If at any stage you wish to go beyond your daily existence and to ask for the knowledge of how you can reach your higher self , then your guide will teach you about the workings of your mind , your intellect and how to rise from your lower mental being into that of perfection . |
| 28 | At a further ministerial meeting in August and after a heads of government meeting in Grenada in September , the four Windward islands agreed to create a regional constituent assembly to discuss unity plans and to prepare for a referendum to be held in mid-1991 . |
| 29 | Following the establishment of a committee to review the Constitution and to prepare for the introduction of a multiparty system [ see p. 36842 ] , the President 's office announced on Nov. 6 that a six-member committee had been set up ; the committee 's members included a leading human rights lawyer , Ismail Ali Jumaale , released from prison on Oct. 25 after four months ' detention . |
| 30 | Students are helped to maximize their performance , to cope with academic and other difficulties that may arise and to prepare for the future beyond the Course . |