Example sentences of "for the [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special care must be taken to ensure that the environment is safe for the patient to move about in . |
| 2 | Otherwise , it may be easier for the patient to come out of the back door and walk or be wheeled out through a side gate , if it is all on a level . |
| 3 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 4 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 5 | This may be an easy point to win , but it fails to answer the question : is it part of the legitimate exercise of freedom for the press to speak out in opposition to a popularly elected government operating in a situation of uncertain stability , with the ever-present threat of division and disunity ? |
| 6 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 7 | Amid mounting political and economic problems Attlee decided that it was impossible for the government to struggle on with its tiny majority . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that his earlier answer emphasised once again how essential and right it was for the Government to stand up against allowing homosexuality in the armed forces ? |
| 9 | If social costs are really this small , perhaps there are more important things for the government to worry about in designing economic policy . |
| 10 | If there has genuinely been no opportunity for the candidate to find out about practical matters of pay and conditions in advance then it is sensible to discuss them at this stage , and you should have all the necessary details ready . |
| 11 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
| 12 | Having turned the car , she wondered if she should make for the cottage to talk out with her mother what her next move should be , but thinking that would leave her grandmother alone too long , she decided to make for home again . |
| 13 | I wo n't wait for the card , for the bill to come in for the card . |
| 14 | The thing about the solo is that it should really be a chance for the guitar to take over from the vocalist and really hit you in the heart like vocals can , and I 'm sorry but these heavy metal solos can never really hit you because it 's just music by numbers . ’ |
| 15 | Well only for the tutor to come in with his er overhead projector or whatever he 's got . |
| 16 | It is reasonable , to start ideas in train in children , to compare an electron with a ping-pong ball , or the whole atom with a tiny solar system ; but the longer you stay with homely parallels , the harder it ultimately becomes for the child to move out of the imagery of pong-pong balls and into an appreciation that atoms are n't really like that at all . |
| 17 | In other circumstances all that needs to be done if the transaction is a domestic one , whereby , say , a shareholder transfers his holding as a gift to a member of his family or sells it to an acquaintance , is for the transferor to hand over to the transferee a signed share transfer together with the share certificate which the transferee will lodge with the company and the register will then be amended by adding the transferee and noting that the transferor has ceased to be a member or shareholder in respect of the shares . |
| 18 | It is arousing controversy within both LWT and ITV as independent television companies prepare for the fight to hold on to their franchises . |
| 19 | It is of course important for the acquirer to find out before the final tender date the way in which the tender will actually be handled , which may not be the same way as the tender documents had optimistically indicated . |
| 20 | Thus it is possible for the system to run out of resources before finding the highest overall spanning hypothesis . |
| 21 | Around the lid a number of small holes can be drilled for the water to pass through into the jar . |
| 22 | I stood in the kitchen waiting for the water to heat up with a distinct feeling of eco-smugness . |
| 23 | ‘ I had to make a guess this morning , ’ she told Alina , glancing back over her shoulder from the Cona machine as she waited for the water to run down through the filter . |
| 24 | ROD WALLACE last night pleaded for the chance to make up for his England heartache , writes John Edwards . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes it is important for the individual to step back from the fray , ’ said , ‘ and describe to themselves what the work problems are and build up an action programme for themselves . |
| 26 | It is important to set a figure for these advance payments which is realistic for the band to live on throughout the period of the contract . |
| 27 | On June 23 , the leaders of four of the newly legalized parties — the Front populaire ivoirien , the Union des sociaux démocrates , the Parti ivoirien des travailleurs and Parti socialiste ivoirien , formally called for the President to step down as head of the PDCI and for the resignation of the government and its replacement with a transitional administration . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , dear … ’ she said faintly , unable for the moment to come up with any stronger remark although Miss Needham could probably have obliged . |
| 29 | I 'd got an assortment of sarnies and some cans of Diet Coke and bottles of Perrier at a café behind Liverpool Street and was allowing plenty of time for the traffic to get back into the City . |
| 30 | It seems you are right — it may well be time for the Party to come out into the open . ’ |