Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAF fear : The RAF is bracing itself for compulsory redundancies after the news that 2,200 jobs must go . |
| 2 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 3 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 4 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 5 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 7 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 8 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 9 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 10 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines is bracing herself for a legal battle over her decision not to allow the remains of the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , to be returned home from Hawaii for burial . |
| 11 | Helen Carson discovers why the sisters are doin' it for themselves Women building on success |
| 12 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |
| 13 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 14 | But there can be no doubt from a candid examination of the New Testament accounts that the prime purpose of the coming of the Spirit of God upon the disciples was to equip them for mission . |
| 15 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 16 | John is saying , loud and clear , that the coming of the Spirit upon the Church is to equip it for evangelism . |
| 17 | The doctors are doing everything for her . ’ |
| 18 | Meanwhile the scholars are bracing themselves for more arguements . |
| 19 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 20 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 21 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 22 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 23 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |
| 24 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 25 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |
| 26 | The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies . |
| 27 | Shares of the £11 billion company , privatised in 1986 , had already started to slide last night and the market is bracing itself for big falls today . |
| 28 | The mother was knitting something for seamen from coloured string . |