Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitt introduced income taxes to pay for the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 2 | The pressure on computer manufacturers to provide for the proper disposal of used computer equipment , which goes beyond dumping it into approved landfills , continues to build from both within and without the industry . |
| 3 | The report prompted opposition parties to call for the immediate resignation of the Finance Minister , Manmohan Singh , and the governor of the Reserve Bank . |
| 4 | Ask local car dealer to write to car manufacturers to press for the introduction of more fuel efficient cars ? |
| 5 | The union 's national executive is calling for a ‘ yes ’ vote and is likely to ask Nottinghamshire businesses to close for the day when a strike is called . |
| 6 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
| 7 | Not only has the arid nature of the land inspired successive rulers to create the most exquisite and luxuriant ornamental gardens in their palaces and towns ; it has also spurred generations of textile artists to compensate for the harshness of their environment by weaving emblems of foliate abundance into their rugs . |
| 8 | Similarly , general practitioners are unlikely to have the management resources to contract for the full range of services required by a local population . |
| 9 | We will retain the right of council tenants to opt for a change of landlord , but only after a fair ballot . |
| 10 | The decisions , tantamount to a significant downgrading of COMECON ( as also indicated by a sharp staff reduction at the Moscow secretariat ) , and which were expected to be approved at a future summit meeting , were the outcome of an undertaking made at the summit meeting in January [ see p. 37202 ] to review existing COMECON arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles . |
| 11 | It is possible to calculate hypothetical exchange rates to allow for the fact that specific commodities ( say , bread , video cassettes etc. ) are cheaper in country A than country B. Such comparisons of production on the basis of ‘ real income per head ’ , or ‘ purchasing power parity ’ showed the UK in 1985 to have 64.8 per cent of the income of the USA , or 85.6 per cent of the average of six countries shown at Figure 2.2 . |
| 12 | This would help domestic industry to maintain both its market share and its profitability , as European and Japanese firms would be obliged to increase their dollar prices to compensate for a fall in the dollar against their currencies . |
| 13 | At the SAD conference in Crieff in October 1986 on " Dementia : Planning Innovative Services in the Community " a debate developed between those who saw an overriding need to integrate dementia sufferers with the rest of their community , both at home and within the various services for elderly people and , on the other hand , those who saw a need to provide separate specialist services to cater for the special needs of dementia sufferers , which had been neglected in the past . |
| 14 | He went along to Diana 's breathing classes to prepare for the birth and was there by her side in the private Lindo Wing at St Mary 's Hospital in Paddington when William emerged after sixteen hours of labour . |
| 15 | In the light of these aims , this article attempts to cater for the interests of two types of mutually compatible readership . |
| 16 | The story was about two rival South London gangs building soapbox cars to enter for a race . |
| 17 | Police have been using a helicopter and tracker dogs to search for a man who attempted to grab a young boy . |
| 18 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 19 | Measures passed in December include : a national drug company to buy from foreign companies and sell generic drugs without brand names ( at low prices ) ; a limit of three versions of any one drug to be on sale and a special tax on foreign drug firms to pay for the national company . |
| 20 | This has resulted in a general failure on the part of local education authorities to plan for the promotion of community languages across all phases of the education system . |
| 21 | Everyone took-off at one minute intervals to allow for the prop wash to subside from the plane in front of you . |
| 22 | In September 1988 revised figures were published showing a dramatic rise in both passenger and freight traffic based on a expected increase in economic growth and a likely rise in ferry tariffs to compensate for a post-1992 loss of duty-free trade . |
| 23 | The deadline passed on Feb. 28 for Hong Kong citizens to apply for a " first tranche " of allocations of UK passports under the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act , introduced in April 1990 as a confidence-building measure after the unrest in China in the previous year [ see p. 37376 ] , and enacted in July . |
| 24 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 25 | The meeting was preceded by calls for the disbandment of the organization but ended with an agreement to review existing COMECON financial and trade arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles . |
| 26 | The rural development area has been reviewed , the County and the work principally done within , within the planning division , the County has , has led a , a team of the County and District Councils to bid for the retention of three areas which the rural development division were proposing to drop from the R D A. |
| 27 | London financier Dennis Oliver has mobilised a group of MCC members to call for a special meeting of the club to protest about Gower 's absence . |
| 28 | It has also underlined the urgent need for sufficient Government funds to pay for a massive recovery programme . |
| 29 | Number twenty two , capital effects to allow for the acquisition of various properties . |
| 30 | At two pounds and ten shillings an acre it would take only ten working days to pay for the plough , but he had promised Christian half his earnings . |