Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powerful voluntary organisations such as MENCAP ( the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults ) and the Spastics Society have helped to raise political and public awareness of the needs of children with disabilities and have fought hard and on the whole successfully to secure better services for them and for their families . |
| 2 | His home in Majorca had been built not only for his own retirement but as somewhere to provide temporary refuge for disadvantaged children . |
| 3 | As the name suggests , these Guidelines are not intended to be binding or prescriptive , but rather to provide impartial guidance for the perplexed . |
| 4 | She went on to write educational books for children , including The Life of Carlo , the Famous Dog of Drury Lane Theatre ( 1804 ) , a ‘ little pantomimic book ’ about the Forty Thieves ( 1806 ) ; The Class Book ; or , Three Hundred and Sixty Five Reading Lessons Adapted to the Use of Schools ( 1806 ) , under the name Revd David Blair ; and Lessons for Children ( 1811 ) . |
| 5 | At first it was difficult enough to claim single-sex space for girls ( and maintaining it still is n't easy ) , and to challenge the male resistance and violence that often ensued . |
| 6 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 7 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |
| 8 | Centrally spaced and firmly screwed to the wall , adjustable spotlights can be angled outwards to provide efficient lighting for reading without disturbing your partner . |
| 9 | ‘ If our girls are enterprising enough to find unique positions for themselves , who are we to object ? ’ |
| 10 | This indicates whether production in the UK economy , and the economy 's international trading position , are heaIthy enough to provide sufficient employment for people within it . |
| 11 | This can be done successfully , but requires a tank large enough to provide open habitat for the other fish ( as well as the rocks for the Mbuna ) and that the Mbuna do not outnumber the others — Mbuna are far more boisterous and a small number of Aulonacaras in a predominantly Mbuna tank tend to be scared all the time , even though rarely actually attacked . |
| 12 | Processing large batches meant that firms tended to split programming from machine operating , but not necessarily to create separate departments for programming . |
| 13 | They can spot conditions where the desert locusts are likely to breed rapidly and move into crop-growing areas , where a single swarm can consume 80 000 tonnes of corn a day — enough to feed 400000 people for a whole year . |
| 14 | We saw 10,000 tons of cereal — enough to feed 800,000 people for a month — stuffed to overflowing in warehouses on the quayside . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , simple systems are widely used to do ab initio calculations accurate enough to answer important questions for reasonably complex molecules . |
| 16 | ‘ If the ball is there to be won and you 've got to go in to win that ball for your team , then maybe you are going to be in a 40-60 situation — and you 've still got to go in . |
| 17 | Clusters also can include other members of the Encore 90 Family as well as Concept/32 systems which can be configured together to form scalable systems for complex application requirements . |
| 18 | Clusters also can include other members of the Encore 90 Family as well as Concept/32 systems which can be configured together to form scalable systems for complex application requirements . |
| 19 | Happily , preservation groups stepped in to save some stock for posterity . |
| 20 | Communion in both kinds also rendered the existing small chalices inadequate , and many were melted down to make new cups large enough to hold sufficient wine for all the lay communicants . |
| 21 | Other training that is helpful is to gather a group of future leaders together to teach these goals for housegroups . |
| 22 | The three eldest girls , Agnes , Sarah , and Nancy only worked infrequently at pressing , as if perhaps to get some cash for a new dress , or a pair of shoes , but possibly to assist the family in times of particular money shortage . |
| 23 | And they 've been friends long enough to take each other for granted , turn up when they feel like it , and shut up when they 're busy . |
| 24 | Use the coupon below to order advance tickets for the Ideal Home Exhibition , which will also admit you to the BBC Good Food Show . |
| 25 | Skilled teachers of drama give pupils the tools of the trade , encouraging them to become more autonomous in their handling of the dramatic medium and so to take greater responsibility for their own learning . |
| 26 | So that 's the designer element and we get together with the people like M and S , whoever it is and meet there and decide the colours and we 're going to do that , that and that and you come back and your team works together to produce certain ideas for a range . |
| 27 | Isaac and his brother Jacob [ q.v. ] clubbed together to produce Hebrew books for the Christian market , and thereby became acquainted with some of the most eminent Christian Hebraists of the day . |
| 28 | The statement went on to urge popular support for Sihanouk 's candidacy in these elections . |
| 29 | ‘ I prefer not to risk further disorientation for you , Leonora . |
| 30 | Still , it would be churlish not to greet this release for the light it casts on an age long gone . |