Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [noun sg] for the [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 | As more and more data is read , old data that has been accessed least is discarded to make room for the new . |
| 4 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was built to supply water for the Grand Union Canal as it still does today . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This had to be demolished to make way for the new library complex and it was impossible to find alternative accommodation for all the books stored there . |
| 13 | The State Paper Office was architecturally the most interesting building to be demolished to make way for the present Foreign Office . |
| 14 | Participants are invited to collect sponsorship for the National Fire Service Benevolent Fund . |
| 15 | On July 7 the small Hural had been disbanded to make way for the Great Hural to act as the country 's new single-chamber legislative body . |
| 16 | All natural resources must be utilised to provide food for the needy . ’ |
| 17 | Chemists had attempted to synthesize quinine for the previous hundred years ( see Chapter 2 ) but all they had achieved was to discover the extreme complexity of the problem . |
| 18 | Although the six cased their announcement as marking the end of the Unix GUI wars — and Sun chief Scott McNealy was finally heard uttering support for the dreaded ‘ M ’ word — reaction to the news was mixed . |
| 19 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 20 | Above all , Westminster enjoys a very high degree of support and interest among British voters , and it thus preserves the authority of the political system as a whole : ‘ The extent to which Parliament has served to maintain support for the political system constitutes one of the most fascinating aspects of the institution in the British political system , . |
| 21 | A Vietnam national army would be rapidly created to assume responsibility for the internal situation and as this progressed French forces would withdraw to border areas or where unnecessary depart . |
| 22 | Some 40 other computer and telecommunications companies were poised to announce support for the new standard , including Lotus Development Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Digital Equipment Corp , Northern Telecom Ltd and Siemens AG , the last two in their telephone systems . |
| 23 | Tropical forests are also destroyed to make way for the hydro-electric plants to smelt bauxite — used in aluminum cans . |
| 24 | Candidates are advised to make application for the above courses in the normal manner indicating in Section 6(i) of the application form that they wish to apply for an ESF training grant . |
| 25 | It was to have been compulsorily purchased to make way for the final stage of the inner ring road until that scheme was dropped . |