Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He warns us against being seduced by ‘ a new and … illiberal ‘ liberal ’ orthodoxy' designed to accommodate demands for a law protecting Islamic sensitivities . |
| 2 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 3 | Previously , after six weeks the students would teach one ( heavily prepared ) lesson ; now , in theory , at least , they could be expected to take responsibility for a class for six or seven weeks . |
| 4 | These are sometimes designed to take place for a period of time such as a day or a week . |
| 5 | This interdisciplinary course for linguists is designed to prepare students for a career in the business world of post-1992 Europe . |
| 6 | Stirling thus decided to abandon operations for a while and send a strong party back to base to collect stores and the new vehicles he had requested . |
| 7 | Berwick was well placed to withstand siege for a time ; but two score thousand people take a deal of feeding , and provisions began to grow short despite severe rationing . |
| 8 | The remaining space afforded by the removal of the existing kitchen was used to provide areas for a Computer Room , two Business Studies Areas , Typing and Office Procedures . |
| 9 | The mill was originally run as part of the adjacent farm and , not surprisingly , was used to provide power for a number of other uses . |
| 10 | If the system is used to derive advice for a professional to use in the execution of his duties , the ultimate recipient of the advice may find that he has a right of action against the professional or the system developer ( or even the independent experts and knowledge engineers engaged by the system developer ) . |
| 11 | Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer . |
| 12 | PROTESTERS have occupied an 18th century thatched cottage due to be demolished to make way for a by-pass . |
| 13 | Try as the commission might to smooth things over , the ’ social dimension ’ seems bound to arouse passion for a while yet . |
| 14 | The colonial government of Hong Kong has refused to provide funds for a rescue operation , which has been estimated to cost less than 0.001 per cent of the cost of building the airport . |
| 15 | The European Community is believed to support plans for a road cutting across the region to link up with East Coast ports . |
| 16 | The earlier plans of 1939 were considered inadequate and in 1951 Mr Robert Frater ARIBA was asked to provide plans for a church to seat about 386 . |
| 17 | A job centre is praying for help from a higher power … after being asked to find work for a man of the cloth ! |
| 18 | Nicholson had an idea already ; other friends were asked to submit outlines for a screenplay and one of those was Carol Eastman , who wrote under the pen-name of Adrien Joyce . |
| 19 | I have now started to do babysitting for a number of people . |
| 20 | He could not imagine finding tranquillity of soul in old age ; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well , one might suddenly achieve equilibrium , certainty , serenity . |
| 21 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 22 | However the policy may be extended to provide cover for a variety of uses . |
| 23 | We are determined to resist calls for a fortress Europe , which would be damaging to world trade . |
| 24 | Fortunately a country house nearby elected to take mothers for a month before their actual confinement . |
| 25 | Short summer courses were arranged to prepare teachers for a return to the service . |
| 26 | In the oriental field , Bluett 's failed to find buyers for a group of Chinese Warring States bronze vessels of extraordinary scholarly interest , while Colnaghi Oriental found spectacularly decorative seventeenth-century bronzes easy to move . |
| 27 | On Nov. 13 , however , Geremek resigned , saying that he had failed to win support for a left of centre coalition . |
| 28 | It recommended that the preliminary hearing be abolished , that the district judge be required to conduct the hearing on an interventionist basis , that he or she be required to give reasons for a decision and explain the rules of law and that specific guidance should be provided on the expenses recoverable for small claims . |
| 29 | IN a shock move Wirral Council is being urged to abandon plans for a flagship site which offers the area 's best hope of attracting new industrial investment . |