Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Minister ensure that when the Housing Executive engages in new build it will incorporate in every scheme a large number of two-bedroomed bungalows and a number of houses especially built to cater for the needs of the disabled ? |
| 2 | These students , like Fang himself , were part of the technocratic elite referred to earlier , but their better prospects and opportunities apparently failed to compensate for other sources of discontent . |
| 3 | LDP therefore decided to look for another manufacturer to supply its Axminster . |
| 4 | Many of these spies subsequently agreed to work for MI5 . |
| 5 | The contractors immediately offered to pay for new tyres to replace those caked in bitumen . |
| 6 | It now requires the Scots ' nerve , and more importantly their defence , to hold firm against Norway at Hampden next month to earn the point still needed to qualify for the World Cup finals in Italy next summer . |
| 7 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 8 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 9 | In 1970 and again in 1970–80 there were diplomatic skirmishes between the United States and the USSR over Soviet attempts to emplace support barges at Cienfuegos clearly intended to allow for the operation of Soviet nuclear submarines out of Cuba . |
| 10 | In the most extreme case , Abdelatif Benazzi even managed to play for two countries in the competition , turning out for Morocco in the qualifiers and France in the final stages . |
| 11 | More mysterious , why was such a message delivered hours before the King actually decided to leave for Kinghorn . |
| 12 | Speaking by its swimming pool , playboy Count de Beaumont said Mellor never attempted to pay for anything during the 1990 holiday . |
| 13 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 14 | The perception that a cruel savage cycle of fertility underlay all the trappings of modem life only served to emphasize for Eliot that there was a higher life , though one infinitely difficult to attain . |
| 15 | The shelf display is supplemented by an indexing system flexibly organized to allow for a variety of approaches , to lead the enquirer to the right " shelf address " and to remedy any deficiencies in the system for particular types of user . |
| 16 | HAVING duped the Press corps by holding his marriage to Audrey Doyle a day early , the publicity-shy ex-hostage Brian Keenan nonetheless agreed to appear for a photo call at the Co Wicklow hotel where the reception was being held . |
| 17 | His report on means of achieving such a Union was adopted by the European Council at Madrid in June 1989 , when the Prime Ministers unanimously agreed to prepare for an Inter-governmental Conference on EMU , including the social dimension as an essential element . |
| 18 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |