Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Almost due north of Koraloona is Hodges Island , named after the painter who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage , then went on to paint India for Warren Hastings . |
| 2 | When designing your garden , plan to include shrubs like pyracantha and Berberis darwinii that give flowers all year round and thereby provide food for wildlife . |
| 3 | French leaders would humbly seek absolution for Pompidou 's awful error in failing to attend Persepolis , and seek contracts for nuclear power stations . |
| 4 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 5 | Better developed services for people from minority ethnic groups . |
| 6 | Development control necessarily involves procedures for enforcement . |
| 7 | In future Castle will only make provision for amortisation of audio copyrights for permanent diminution in value . |
| 8 | Figures released on Feb. 13 showed that the seasonally adjusted surplus for January 1992 had quadrupled since January 1991 to $3,840 million , and that exports had risen by 9.7 per cent against a 3.8 per cent fall in imports . |
| 9 | Joint finance has been provided since 1976 to enable local authorities and health authorities , as well as voluntary organizations , to work together to provide facilities for care in the community for different groups , including both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 10 | He was unsure about whether he 'd be able to do this , and was also uncomfortable knowing that soon he 'd be performing merely to provide entertainment for Mandru and his guests . |
| 11 | The Council not only considered proposals for degrees and other awards , it gave assistance and advice in the early stages of the formulation of courses , and in amending them if they were rejected by the Council . |
| 12 | The company was worked consistently over the years to develop special knowledge and expertise in particular areas e.g. chiral compounds and building blocks ; quaternary ammonium compounds for phase transfer catalysis and electrochemistry ; silylating agents ; a range of products for ion-selective electrode work and a comprehensive range of highly purified reagents for bio-chemistry marked under trade name Micro-Select . |
| 13 | " Forests , " it says , " have been swept aside to grow crops for western consumers , flooded by huge hydroelectric dams to power mineral smelters and cut down to provide timber for export markets . " |
| 14 | Tap the first letter of the command ( eg Tap T for Transfer ) . |
| 15 | Because the relative molar potency of caerulein compared with that of the naturally occurring cholecystokinin for gall bladder contraction is not known , decreased gall bladder contraction in the study of Fiorucci could have been masked by using caerulein . |
| 16 | Splitting frequencies — transmitting different programmes on FM and AM — could effectively double listening hours and provides two highly targeted audiences for advertising in a catchment area . |
| 17 | Many nationalized industries , which long posed problems for governments , not least in pay negotiations , were floated to the private sector . |
| 18 | We would only need cover for centre-half and of course we have big — bad — jon for that ! |
| 19 | " I only want bread-soda for Mrs Fox-Collier 's diamonds . " |
| 20 | Yet throughout England school pupils have banded together to launch campaigns for teachers in their school . |
| 21 | This time round they were told they would not be able to enter the National Federation of Meat Traders bi-annual sausage competition at Harrogate as one of the sponsors , the Meat and Livestock Commission , held that they only provided sponsorship for mainland competitors . |
| 22 | One wind turbine at Trimblemill on the Isle of Thurso , Scotland , only produces 7kW of power a year , but that is still enough to provide electricity for lights and appliances for the island population . |
| 23 | — meetings should be long enough to provide opportunity for fun and relaxation as well as worship and discussion . |
| 24 | I constantly cut trails for use indoors . |
| 25 | For such a plan not only allocates land for development but , as a consequence , distributes financial or environment costs and benefits . |
| 26 | The discovery of it outside the groups identified as apparent risks can only give cause for concern . |
| 27 | On another occasion , I would want to argue that , despite the problems , comparisons with the English system can only give ground for encouragement and that we should be thinking of extending the Scottish system beyond the age of 16 to include offenders under 21 . |
| 28 | I could , I would very much like Works for Windows some time . |
| 29 | Pavilion has hitherto used Bloomsbury for sales representation and DMS-Media Services for distribution . |
| 30 | ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses . |