Example sentences of "[noun] to [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's an extra bonus to riding for Sonauto , who also import Porsche cars into France : he gets a 944S2 as a company car . |
| 2 | As Keynes pointed out , the Treasury 's opposition to planning for post-war full employment was a lost cause , because when post-war plans came under the political spotlight the Labour members of the government would undoubtedly press for an expansionist policy . |
| 3 | During the preceding century there had indeed been no pressure for subsistence , yet at the same time demand had been strong , especially in the east where the growth of a thriving cloth industry along the border , combined with the prosperity of the Devon stannaries , situated within a day 's journey by cart , had created a market lively enough to make small-scale farming a practicable alternative to labouring for wages . |
| 4 | If you look at the News item regarding Hoof Branding in the September issue you will see that I recommended any form of security marking and that hoof branding was suggested as an alternative to freezebranding for those who choose not to freezebrand their horses . |
| 5 | An alternative to asking for item after item is to ask , " What animals ( birds , fish , etc. ) do you have in your country ? " , or , " What different kinds of clothing do you wear ? " |
| 6 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 7 | Northampton 's return to challenging for top honours was brought about by a complete overhaul of the club 's structure both on and off the field . |
| 8 | This is apparent in the wealth of critical responses to fantastic and non-real literature over time , from Piers Plowman to Waiting for Godot . |
| 9 | The tragic mother and father reached the end of their tether after devoting their lives to caring for their daughter . |
| 10 | Let us give thanks for the many people throughout history who have dedicated their lives to working for peace and justice . |
| 11 | Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause . |
| 12 | He devoted some considerable part of his attention to arranging for G. M. Young , his friend as he thought , to write his biography . |
| 13 | But thought itself can be creative and this creative thinking can be put to good use in all areas of life — from running a business to preparing for Christmas . |
| 14 | If you regularly visit shops in your neighbourhood where dogs are prohibited , it is a good idea to accustom your pet to waiting for you tied to a dog park . |
| 15 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 16 | And provision by the welfare state expanded until the 1970s with benefits increasing in real value , access to higher education and health care expanding , and rights to housing for the homeless being guaranteed by law for priority groups . |
| 17 | I strongly applaud Mr. Baker 's continued commitment to pushing for a settlement and we will maintain our full support of that effort . |
| 18 | The figure that many companies disclose allows trends over time to be identified but does little to provide a more detailed appreciation of its commitment to investing for the future . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Gummer said : ‘ The proposals complement the range of environmental incentives already available to farmers and reflect the Government 's continuing commitment to caring for the countryside and to integrating environmental objectives into agricultural policy . ’ |
| 20 | It 's all part of Wimpey 's commitment to caring for the environment . |
| 21 | We therefore , by the end of the year , will have staff in place where the full year commitment to paying for those staff is in fact some six hundred and eighty six thousand pounds . |
| 22 | The common ground Chamerovzow sketched out was a commitment to working for the importation of free-labour cotton for the Lancashire mills and a shared desire to isolate American churchmen who were not firmly antislavery . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , my beliefs have changed over the last years and the message is clear : I no longer think in terms of ‘ further education for not quite all ’ but of providing access to learning for everyone . |
| 24 | Er it 's been suggested by Mr from the H B F that as I understand his suggestion , that a lower provision of housing land in some way affects affordability or affects the er access to housing for the lower se lower ends of the lower income households . |
| 25 | As well as demonstrations of country crafts , such as sheep shearing , hedge laying , stonewalling and spinning , there were opportunities for people to participate in activities ranging from bug-hunting to searching for gold . |
| 26 | The Act formally removed the limitation confining local authority provision to housing for the ‘ working classes ’ . |
| 27 | It has the responsibility of offering regular worship which is accessible to everyone in the land , in addition to providing for great local and national occasions , which it generally does well . |
| 28 | 3 In addition to providing for strong and responsible government it has been claimed that the system provides for moderate government because the two parties in a two-party system must strive to occupy the middle ground where the votes lie thickest and this obliges them to control their extremists who might dissuade the middling voters from giving their support . |
| 29 | Whereas the US and UK agreements focused on specific arrangements for , respectively , the transportation and the safe storage of Russian nuclear weapons , the French accord , in addition to providing for storage and transportation , also undertook to furnish radiological equipment in the event of nuclear accidents , and machine tools ( not subject to restrictions imposed by the Co-ordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM ) ) designed to disassemble nuclear weapons . |
| 30 | Firstly , in addition to looking for a general description of the information available in the films , this study was concerned particularly with information which is related to risks and potential risks in the scenes . |