Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | WWF is calling on the Government to fulfil a pledge made to the Lords that the licences granted to suppliers will be amended to include provisions for penalties to be imposed . |
| 2 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 3 | Over the last 20 years or so a large theoretical literature has been developed to provide tools for the solution of many problems associated with emergency planning ( Kolesar 1981 ) . |
| 4 | He warns us against being seduced by ‘ a new and … illiberal ‘ liberal ’ orthodoxy' designed to accommodate demands for a law protecting Islamic sensitivities . |
| 5 | The attacks are designed to disrupt plans for an election on May 23rd . |
| 6 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 7 | More than 400 people are expected to attend auditions for the Sainsbury 's Choir of the Year competition at York 's Barbican centre on March 21 . |
| 8 | This degree course has been designed to provide opportunities for advanced study in key areas of Spanish , Spanish-American and Portuguese literature and culture . |
| 9 | Several manufacturers now market products which are claimed to attract dogs for toilet purposes . |
| 10 | Denmark and Saxony hired out considerable forces to the anti-French coalition during the War of the Spanish Succession , while Britain employed Russian auxiliaries in 1747–48 and confidently expected to obtain others for use against the American colonists in 1775 . |
| 11 | The borough council has also been told that its measures designed to compensate property-owners for groundwater damage that might result from the barrage , were ‘ gravely inadequate ’ . |
| 12 | Despite student impressions to the contrary , exams are not designed to set traps for unwary students . |
| 13 | These are designed to detect abilities for leadership and working as team members . |
| 14 | After all , matrix printers were designed to handle typefaces for word processing , not desktop publishing . |
| 15 | In principle the appellants should not be permitted to retain payments for which they have no warrant to charge . |
| 16 | A human being , situated as was the horse , would be expected to give reasons for its refusal to walk to the trough ( I 'm tired , not thirsty ) . |
| 17 | Again they would be expected to give reasons for their decision . |
| 18 | In other words , the Board of Trade could more or less control the Service , co-operating with other agencies when and where it thought necessary , although those LEAs which had or might have in the future statutory powers for dealing with juveniles were permitted to submit schemes for the exercise of these powers , provided they could obtain the permission of both Boards . |
| 19 | Jim Murphy , president of the National Union of Students Scotland , said that delegates to the union 's annual meeting are expected to endorse plans for an escalating campaign against proposals to force students to pay individual levies to support campus associations . |
| 20 | The colonists had enough newspapers to take any visiting Englishman aback , and were developing industries fast enough to disturb the balance of the integrated commercial system : in 1699 Americans were forbidden to spin woollens for export , even to another colony ; in 1732 a similar limitation was placed on the manufacture of hats and caps ; and in 1750 the Iron Act allowed them to smelt iron ore into pig iron but forbade them to go any further in processing it , though in the event the American colonies were producing more iron and steel than Britain by 1775 . |
| 21 | The company also introduced the External Media System 753 , a new external storage system designed to address needs for both desktop and floor-standing servers . |
| 22 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 23 | The result is that , however unsatisfactory it may be , the court in any particular case is constrained to assess damages for non-pecuniary losses by reference to previous awards in comparable cases or , at least , by reference to the general level of awards where there are no cases which are really comparable . |
| 24 | her assignments have included taking pictures for a record sleeve for Jimmy Nail and working for the Australian bicentennial celebrations . |
| 25 | is committed to deliver solutions for real world problems . |
| 26 | The Cameron Toll centre , which attracts 200,000 shoppers per week , is expected to change hands for more than £30 million . |
| 27 | The study is expected to have implications for the design of information systems , for the targets that are set to evaluate investment decisions and for finding ways of correctly assessing risk . |
| 28 | Mr Beregovoy is expected to approve proposals for a Gallic form of personal equity plans in the next few weeks which would allow French investors up to £60,000 worth of shares each , free of dividend and capital gains tax . |
| 29 | The TCP/IP product is designed to integrate Windows for Workgroups with Unix-based local and wide area networks , enabling users to standardise on TCP/IP as their only protocol for workgroup computing and wide-area networking — it includes support for the Windows Sockets API . |
| 30 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |