Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors demand high returns to compensate for possible failure , making share issues an expensive way to raise cash . |
| 2 | The flow of funds from the personal sector to the financial institutions does not only represent workers providing for their retirement , but also represents the accumulation of wealth whereby socially privileged strata transmit their cultural patrimony ( e.g. saving through endowment policies to provide for private education ) . |
| 3 | Rosenthal has selected just three artists to stand for new developments in the Nineties : Jeff Koons , Robert Gober and Mike Kelly . |
| 4 | But Mr Clarke told ministers : ‘ I am against any question of raising taxes to compensate for proper control of public spending . |
| 5 | Just as the company was about to enter a crisis period through shortage of water , Meirion Rowlands , then Production Director , thought to use copper divining rods to search for new sources of water in the hills he knew so well . |
| 6 | Perhaps , like the lungfish of today , they lived in pools that were seasonal and used lungs and legs to search for other water when their homes went dry . |
| 7 | There is an enormous growth in opportunities to work for central or local government , a commercial or industrial organisation , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , and the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 8 | ( ii ) They should have continuing opportunities to write for formal or public purposes so that they increase their command of the structures of written Standard English . |
| 9 | In the case of Japanese enterprise groups many of these hierarchical relationships are arranged through complex subcontracts and the extensive use of quasi-democratic work teams using horizontal relationships to substitute for functional arrangements which more typically are hierarchical in the modernist bureaucracy . |
| 10 | Conservative Central Office will be able to make much of the suggestion that , under a Labour administration , secondary picketing would once again be lawful , that unions which ignored the courts would no longer face the possibility of sequestration and that it would not be possible for employers or other interested parties to apply for interim injunctions postponing precipitate strikes . |
| 11 | Opportunities to study for recognised qualifications through sponsored schemes are becoming an indispensable part of organisations ' management development programmes and an invaluable means of recruiting and retaining highly-qualified and motivated staff . |
| 12 | To compensate for the absence of transitions Jelinek used backing off formulae to account for missing transitions . |
| 13 | Produced by Armanino Foods of Distinction , they suffered from the reluctance of cash-strapped shoppers to pay for premium brands last year . |
| 14 | From March 24 the Enterprise Initiative Consultancy Scheme ( EICS ) will only be available at a cut-price rate , because the Department of Trade and Industry are re-directing funds to pay for alternative business packages . |
| 15 | Once established , these boundaries enabled shippers , carriers , banks , and insurance companies to contract for appropriate insurance coverage . |
| 16 | Again , some psycholinguists maintained that top-down constraint merely facilitated recognition , while others argued that top-down information had to produce hypotheses to compensate for inaccurate acoustic information . |
| 17 | It is clear , though , that if you decide to help your elderly parent or parents to apply for local authority grants , you are probably going to need to have great determination and infinite patience , and in the meantime there is a great deal you could do yourself to improve their comfort and living conditions in small but important ways . |
| 18 | Both species use their curved bills to probe for small animals , build colonial nests off the ground and have young which hatch naked and blind . |
| 19 | The proposed jobs tax would be a contribution by all companies to pay for centralised training funds . |
| 20 | In litre bottles to cater for everyday use in the house , the restaurant , the pub , the club . |
| 21 | In response to the dispatch of a delegation of patriotic labour leaders to Russia , the United Socialist Council summoned a national conference designed to challenge the right of the patriots to speak for socialist and working-class opinion on the war . |
| 22 | CABLE TV OPERATORS TO APPLY FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FREQUENCIES |
| 23 | We would welcome a system of licensing which allowed private clubs to apply for all-night music and dance licensing in suitable venues . |
| 24 | And that tuned in well with my inclinations to look for formal qualities and make more or less abstract patterns out of nature . |
| 25 | The boom saw the generalization and expansion of state welfare provisions , unprecedented attempts by governments to plan for economic growth and shape industrial structures , and some experiments in worker involvement in the direction of enterprises . |
| 26 | He advises organisations to go for proven and well understood technologies to meet their basic requirements , wherever possible using architectures which are already known within the company — even if different technologies have been implemented on top . |
| 27 | The Commission proposed retaining the principle of paying farmers direct subsidies to compensate for significant cuts in price support from 1993 to 1996 . |
| 28 | Perhaps Engelberger 's idea of the paradise on Earth is robots to substitute for human teachers , hospital nurses , and doctors . |
| 29 | The demand for child labour in the textile areas could have been ... an inducement for workers to aim for high fertility . |
| 30 | In America , once managers make an offer for their company , the independent directors hire investment banks to look for other potential buyers . |