Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 2 | He subsequently offered to supply free electricity to Czechoslovakia to compensate for the loss of generating capacity from the plant . |
| 3 | Up on the Wolds , the Scots were looting and killing at Malton and around the villages of Kilham and Rudston ; shrewdly the prior of Bridlington sent a Scottish-born canon to Malton to negotiate for the safety of his house , while at the same time the priory prudently removed all its muniments , vestments and precious relics ( a piece of the true cross among them ) to Goxhill , in Lincolnshire , and left only eight canons with one chalice in Bridlington . |
| 4 | Significantly , the ruling came only two days before tens of thousands of people took part in a march from Moscow 's Gorky Park to Manezh Square outside the Kremlin to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Ryzhkov and his government . |
| 5 | A CUSTOMER reports that yesterday he phoned Harrods to ask for the barber shop . |
| 6 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 7 | SEOUL ( AFP ) — Pope John Paul II urged South Korea to work for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula peacefully and told the President , Roh Tae Woo , that the division symbolised suffering . |
| 8 | The Turkish government , which had announced the intended diversion on Nov. 20 , 1989 , rejected the complaint , pointing to the fact that it had increased the supply of water to Iraq and Syria by 50 per cent between November and January to compensate for the loss of water in January-February . |
| 9 | Now they are devastated by their one-point defeat at the hands of Waterloo and must regret allowing Barnes to play for the Barbarians against Australia . |
| 10 | Taiwanese residents who were members of the Hawaiian-based group Earthtrust contacted the Honolulu headquarters , and within a few days , an international team , led by Michael Bailey , arrived at Penghu to negotiate for the release of the remaining animals . |
| 11 | Christie 's has even gone to Washington to lobby for the bill . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll miss the involvement but it 's too important for England to qualify for the World Cup finals to take any chances . ’ |
| 13 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 14 | Three ministers have also been forced out over the past two weeks , an unprecedented exodus which prompted Mr Amato to call for the vote . |
| 15 | Mandela indicated on Aug. 13 that a statement of intent by the government to implement a non-racial constitution might be sufficient for the ANC to call for the ending of sanctions against South Africa . |
| 16 | Applied to the human race , sexual selection allowed Darwin to account for the loss of body hair by assuming that this character had become sexually desirable among our distant ancestors . |
| 17 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 18 | ’ ( i ) We have an invitation from Spain to tender for the line Locke has surveyed between Barcelona and Mataro . |
| 19 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 20 | And fans of the Paul McCartney sound-a-like have his mum Mrs Cooper to thank for the one-off show . |
| 21 | It also revealed the paltry sums thrown at such communities by BC to compensate for the lower quality of life they are forced to endure . |
| 22 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 23 | Serota , who danced with the Royal Ballet ( as Angela Beveridge ) , persuaded Bruce to apply for the position of artistic director because she believed he could restore Rambert to the forefront of British dance . |
| 24 | EAST GERMANY yesterday effectively barred its citizens from Czechoslovakia , but agreed to allow the second wave of refugees crammed into the West German embassy in Prague to leave for the West . |
| 25 | A collision between Mansell and Senna and retirement for Patrese left Berger and Schumacher to fight for the spoils . |
| 26 | It 's a challenging objective and there is general recognition among the senior administrators that it is going to take a tremendous effort , one that is both concerted and coordinated , for Canada to qualify for the 1995 quarter-finals . |
| 27 | We have improved the model by including bromine chemistry and refined the treatment of PSCs to allow for the sedimentation and evaporation as described in section 5 of ref. 9 . |
| 28 | For example , McCullough cites the failure of Sibelius to compose for the last 20 years of his life as in part due to his discomfort at the rise of a genre of music with which he felt no affinity . |
| 29 | An advance party is due to leave Ipswich Airport on Monday to prepare for the installation of X-ray equipment at a hospital in the city of Cluj . |
| 30 | Hostilities in Europe ended on May 8 , and soon after the Squadron was informed that it would be going to the Far East as part of the ‘ Tiger Force ’ , and on June 16 Sugar went with the rest of the unit to Metheringham to prepare for the move . |