Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning with relatively peaceful " teach-ins " at which the issues raised by the war were debated , the movement grew , using marches , rallies and sit-ins , designed to disrupt recruitment for the armed services . |
| 2 | Those whose desks will be rearranged to find room for the new machines will find it harder to exert some control . |
| 3 | Jim Murphy , president of the National Union of Students Scotland , said that delegates to the union 's annual meeting are expected to endorse plans for an escalating campaign against proposals to force students to pay individual levies to support campus associations . |
| 4 | Mr Beregovoy is expected to approve proposals for a Gallic form of personal equity plans in the next few weeks which would allow French investors up to £60,000 worth of shares each , free of dividend and capital gains tax . |
| 5 | It is expected to raise £400,000 for a benevolent fund for ageing former performers . |
| 6 | But she and the children are expected to join Andrew for the Royal Family 's annual get-together at Balmoral in Scotland today . |
| 7 | There were projects in rural areas too , such as the Arnhem-Elst-Nijmegen route , which were designed to improve conditions for the large volume of cyclists who cycle to school or work in neighbouring villages and towns . |
| 8 | As more and more data is read , old data that has been accessed least is discarded to make room for the new . |
| 9 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 10 | After the war , reactors like the Windscale ‘ piles ’ — scene of the 1957 accident described in Chapter One — were designed to produce material for the first British nuclear bombs , and no expense was spared in developing the necessary technology . |
| 11 | Installation time is largely dependant on how much disk space the files you have already take up , since what 's already there is squeezed to make room for the extra drive , and squeezing takes time . |
| 12 | The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases . |
| 13 | A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage . |
| 14 | The 5–14 proposals , which are designed to prepare children for the Standard Grade and Revised Highers syllabi currently in place throughout mainstream Scottish Education , will form the basis of Scottish Primary Education for the rest of this century and beyond . |
| 15 | Secondly , most of the fancy school fees plans are designed to make money for the financial institutions which put them together , and for the intermediary or agent who sells them . |
| 16 | Neither was it organised to recruit members for the Anti Nazi League/SP . |
| 17 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 18 | This was built to supply water for the Grand Union Canal as it still does today . |
| 19 | So unilateralism says Mr. O'Brian must not be made to pay damages for the emotional injury he caused Mrs. McLoughlin even though the judge thinks the opposite rule would be better for the future . |
| 20 | Ocean has lodged planning applications for a waste-to-energy facility in south London and a toxic waste incinerator near Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
| 22 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
| 23 | This method might be used to gather ideas for the next course of sermons , for example . |
| 24 | In 1651 , the Rump Parliament debated a suggestion that all twenty-six should be demolished and their stonework and furnishings sold to provide funds for the poor . |
| 25 | Britain is at the stage when we must no longer expect sections of our land to be retained for the benefit of the few , when they could be used to provide jobs for the many . |
| 26 | However , it has also unexpectedly had to rewrite code for the vast numbers of device drivers and peripherals supported in the Intel iAPX-86 family of microprocessors . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the many parts of the North which are anticipated to experience depopulation for the foreseeable future ( OPCS , 1988 ) will tend to find more defensive strategies being adopted by the private sector and local authorities alike , as their revenue base contracts and as the use of their facilities falls below its optimum level . |
| 28 | This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 . |
| 29 | Where democratic institutions were ineffective as in pre-war Japan , it was all too easy for a collectivist tradition to be used to mobilize support for an authoritarian regime . |
| 30 | Election poster campaigns by the main political parties customarily occupy sites previously booked by others — by clients of the party 's agency who can be persuaded to postpone campaigns for a few weeks , by the Central Office of Information ( whose government advertising goes on hold once an election is called ) or reputedly ( in the case of the Tories ) by the big brewers and tobacco companies . |