Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We take very seriously our attempts to secure employment for disabled people in the Government . |
| 2 | In 1652 they had established a very well-placed port at the Cape of Good Hope as a supply depot , but the Dutch East India Company was always a little worried when settlers at the base interpreted their responsibility to provide food for passing ships as a reason for pushing on into the hinterland . |
| 3 | So he was , McLeish observed , the devil plainly being given no opportunity to find work for idle hands . |
| 4 | For centuries , traditional windmills harnessed the wind to drive machinery for grinding wheat into flour . |
| 5 | The Association of London Authorities wants a long-term Government-funded programme to provide accommodation for homeless single people . |
| 6 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
| 7 | Typically , torque rise figures are 10–15% from rated speed to peak torque for non-turbocharged diesels , 15–30% for turbocharged diesels and 25–60% with charge-cooled turbo diesels . |
| 8 | However , the American ambassador , Mr Thomas Pickering , told the council yesterday that Washington 's approval was based on the assumption that the force would take steps to halt aid for Salvadorean guerrillas . |
| 9 | Paints supplied by Courtaulds Aerospace 's Shildon site in the UK coat the Warrior combat vehicles used by the United nations to ride shotgun for humanitarian aid convoys . |
| 10 | I. crenata is a good alternative to dwarf box for small formal hedges . |
| 11 | And the disingenuous becomes invidious when this is set against an attempt to locate blame for economic dislocation on its victims , cast inner city residents as ‘ a poor social mix ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p19 ) , and offer instead a radical recasting of multi-national capital as the means of saving the inner cities . |
| 12 | The distinction between the cases is that the Hydraulic Power Co. were empowered by statute to supply water for industrial purposes , that is , they had permissive power but not a mandatory authority , and they were under no obligation to keep their mains charged with water at high pressure , or at all . |
| 13 | Carmen 's Facial Sauna , £15.95 , has a low setting to produce mist to cleanse sensitive skin , and a higher setting to produce steam for normal skin . |
| 14 | And there it is , Springfield Park , a 9-hole course , with rolling fairways alongside a local hospital that sold off its recreation acres to gain cash for developing facilities indoors . |
| 15 | Local authorities are obliged under the 1981 Education Act to provide tuition for special educational needs , yet the institute believes only a small proportion of dyslexics receive adequate help in state schools . |
| 16 | The corollary is that they have accepted a range of obligations to provide support for non-household kin . |
| 17 | The four were alleged to have participated in a 3,600 million yen swindle to extract payment for bogus steel shipments . |
| 18 | Reports of a vigorous US campaign to win support for military action against Iraq had gained further credence after France , Germany and the UK publicly endorsed the possibility of allied military intervention during the G-7 summit in London on July 15-17 [ see p. 38321 ] . |
| 19 | Erm , the main requirement is , that where you have resources or applied property to discharge your own functions , people come under the then you are at liberty to use those resources where it does n't increase the capacity to do work for other public bodies , but you should neither increase your own capacity to do work with other bodies |
| 20 | I am lecturing all over the place , ’ explained the explorer.However , although he also finds time for lectures to raise money for good causes , like his visit to Snape , Sir Ranulph is a notoriously private celebrity.He rarely gives interviews , and does not keep hand-out photographs of himself . |
| 21 | That 's why we need your help to raise money for urgent medical research . |
| 22 | That 's why we need your help to raise money for urgent medical research . |
| 23 | The most basic is simply to clear space on the shelves to make room for new additions to stock . |
| 24 | For that reason , we are spending more than £100 million over the next three years to provide accommodation for young single people . |
| 25 | The House will recall that the Bill seeks powers for works in the area of King 's Cross and St. Pancras stations to increase capacity for British Rail and , indeed , for underground customers and to provide new rail services across London using Thameslink . |
| 26 | Someone with greater political vision might have seen the end of hostilities as the right moment to substitute civilian for military leadership . |
| 27 | RED nosed Royal Bank staff got up to all sorts of antics to raise cash for Comic Relief '93 . |
| 28 | The police also found Mr Mandela 's diary , documenting his travels to raise support for armed rebellion , and hundreds of documents which betrayed the plans of Umkhonto . |
| 29 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 30 | Severini , who had signed the manifestos but was not exhibiting , had come to Milan to ask Marinetti for financial assistance , and he advised that the Italian painters should visit Paris before exhibiting there as they intended . |