Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bid to reduce bills for rural householders who live away from the district 's three main cemeteries , by making them pay less for burial services , was narrowly defeated . |
| 2 | I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers . |
| 3 | If , for example , one aim of private insurance was to deflect the work-force away from militancy whilst investing in human capital , trades union support for higher state pensions at earlier ages reflected a desire to create jobs for younger men whilst minimizing their own potential benefit payments . |
| 4 | In 1991 the Regional Council published a guide to transport services for elderly and disabled people . |
| 5 | A statement to declare variables for local use inside a function ( FN ) or procedure ( PROC ) . |
| 6 | But Catholic priests said Mr Fallon had a duty to provide places for Catholic children under the 1944 Education Act . |
| 7 | We are already in a position to give reasons for many of the cases of uneven distribution , where an adjective is grammatical in one of the two positions but not in the other , beyond simply making some such observation as " the following adjectives are unacceptable in predicative position " . |
| 8 | At the end of the research , the investigator will report on the survey and interviews to policy makers and others who are in a position to make recommendations for improved teacher training and career development . |
| 9 | There is a tendency to formulate proposals for uniform laws without adequate liaison among the various bodies involved in harmonization to ensure that each is kept informed as to the other 's projected programme of activity and that duplication of effort is avoided . |
| 10 | Furthermore , in an attempt to reward men for military service and to encourage others to serve in France , Henry had pursued a policy of granting lands and titles which had come into his hands , thereby creating an important interest , other than his own , in the extension and maintenance of the conquest . |
| 11 | The baby bulge birth cohorts have been of an age to have children for some time . |
| 12 | They answered an advertisement to cook lunches for visiting parties of Americans to North Wales and these developed into dinner business too . |