Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And apart from this exacerbation of old quarrels at the level of official and formal relations , religion lost some of its hold on the masses as it did less and less to provide channels for social protest . |
| 2 | For the course seeks not only to prepare graduates for immediate employment in a range of positions within publishing but also to provide them with the intellectual equipment to become in the longer term the managers , the decision-makers and strategy-formulators . |
| 3 | It was a somewhat strained discussion on both sides , the Right , as it were , being careful not to be pejoratively dismissive and to stress the importance of improving the morale of cancer patients and of discussion between sufferers and the world at large ; the Left being equally cautious not to exaggerate claims for holistic medicine . |
| 4 | And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet . |
| 5 | The staff were to meet EC officials yesterday to finalise arrangements for European funding for environmental studies in the isles . |
| 6 | " 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 . " |
| 7 | It is worth noting , too , that recent British labour legislation has led to an increasing use of the law in industrial disputes by BR management : notably to claim damages for industrial action carried out without a workforce ballot , and to obtain injunctions to prevent the NUR from blacking new equipment . |
| 8 | The guidelines issued to the National Heritage Memorial Fund allowed it to give grants , not only for the purchase of outstanding buildings , land and works of artistic and historic interest , but also to provide endowments for major houses threatened with sale . |
| 9 | Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities . |
| 10 | Previous work funded by the ESRC at the Institute of Education showed that in the last five years screening techniques have been used increasingly to identify children for special educational provision . |
| 11 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 12 | Its purpose is chiefly to add entries for new words and new meanings of words : ‘ new ’ implying that they came into existence , or came to the attention of scholars , after the relevant part of OED was published , and therefore could not be inserted in the main work . |
| 13 | The steady flow of emigrants from the British Isles meant that landowners in the West Indies did not need to look further afield to find workers for growing tobacco , for which they needed a relatively small labour force working all the year round . |
| 14 | On Oct. 29 the UN Security Council had endorsed recommendations submitted by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali urging member states voluntarily to earmark troops for rapid deployment in international emergencies . |