Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included giving families reproductive choice in future pregnancies , enabling them to plan for the future with a disabled child , avoiding the experience of a delayed diagnosis , and identifying a presymptomatic cohort who might benefit from future treatments . |
| 2 | The aims were to give families reproductive choice in future pregnancies ; to enable them to plan for the future with a child with a disability ; to avoid the experience of a prolonged diagnosis ; and to identify a presymptomatic cohort who may benefit from future treatments . |
| 3 | Told me to wait for the horse to lift its tail . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But now Miss Kyte must leave you , or she will have nothing to wear for the occasion . ’ |
| 5 | It is suggested that pupils choose a person whose Christian commitment has led him/her to work for the good of others , thus making a link with the Christian vocation to alleviate suffering and/or the work of Christians in relation to respect for human life ( both indicated in L.0.2 ) . |
| 6 | Not only did they need access to the non-arable resources controlled by the nobility , but their ever-growing land shortage compelled them to work for the nobility on conditions which had much in common with those of serfdom . |
| 7 | They are yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , to give away , rent to friends , or to sell as you choose . |
| 8 | Yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , rent to friends , sell , give away , or even pass on to your children . |
| 9 | I have a hunch about her — she is definitely someone to watch for the future . |
| 10 | He taught me to aim for the knees since any weapon firing on automatic would climb high and right , and thus the fall of shot could be evenly distributed across the stomach and torso , ending in the head . |
| 11 | It is often easier to locate the leak with the water in , or by marking the water level at which to search for the leak , unless of course the fault is in the bottom of the pool . |
| 12 | As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town . |
| 13 | ‘ Community ’ and informal care therefore provide appropriate contexts within which to argue for the value of women 's unpaid caring work to be recognised , as Land ( 1991 ) and Ungerson ( 1990 ) have recently done . |
| 14 | The Deputy Under Secretary had no one but himself to blame for the irritation that his starched collar created just below the line of his neatly cut hair . |
| 15 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 16 | It is that position of fundamental weakness and poverty that forces them to apply for the Government 's student loans . |
| 17 | Sufficiently long gap between contractions for me to smile for the camera . |
| 18 | The relentless struggle of the workers against unemployment and hunger in times of peace as in times of war makes it vital for them to organise for the overthrow of the capitalist system and for the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth . |
| 19 | There had been no retaliation by the MacIans , but they all knew they were ready for it if any had come , and who to thank for the readiness ; and no-one mentioned who they had to thank for the threat . |
| 20 | I have , therefore , been asked to repeat my request of 3 July asking you to arrange for the hedges to be trimmed as soon as possible . |
| 21 | The main 10-band EQ system ( plus two further sliders for input gain and volume ) is augmented by a smaller , manually-adjusted 7-band ‘ acoustic correction ’ system which allows you to compensate for the acoustics of each gig , without having to go back into your preset program — positive thinking on the part of Decimax . |
| 22 | She fixed a baleful eye on Angelica , and said , ‘ If ever they bring back hanging , I would n't advise you to apply for the job . ’ |
| 23 | But still if you read that carefully it does n't say he ca that they ca n't do it , the C E C. So I urge you to vote for the motion two five five . |
| 24 | So I want you to enrol for the winter term at Auburn for one course . |
| 25 | If this is the case always take the policy with you to produce for the doctor . |
| 26 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 27 | By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ . |
| 28 | If you decide to lay your own base , the garage manufacturer will supply a detailed specification for you to follow for the slab size , thickness , and concrete composition ( definitely a job for ready-mixed concrete ) . |
| 29 | It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment . |
| 30 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |