Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | the Distributor ceasing to carry on business for any reason whatsoever |
2 | You ca n't , you could n't say right we 'll do a function for hundred and fifty and two hundred , and really to do , you 've got to be looking to do a , a sit down function for two hundred |
3 | The team , as usual lacking expertise in the particular field , agreed , and laid down criteria for positive discrimination to fight back . |
4 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
5 | It laid down provisions for third world states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and for compensation payments in return for extraction of their genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
6 | when the members of the newly founded french academies laid down rules for all artists at the court of Louis XIV , they had to conform whether they were painters , sculptors or designers of scenery , props and tapestries . |
7 | It laid down guidelines for religious instruction . |
8 | Suspicious of the ‘ two-tier ’ contracts used by some American carriers to drive down pay for all , strikes are threatened over the holiday weekend of May 28th . |
9 | It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel . |
10 | ‘ With your permission , I 'd like to use your warehouse as a staging area and base of operations , while we secure the area and send in protection for other American interests in the city . ’ |
11 | The first stage of creating the definition is to write down headings for each of the six CATWOE categories and try to fill them in . |
12 | At first , it seemed that the antics of marine woodworms in the piling of Barmouth 's 115 span timber bridge would rob the Cambrian coast of its railway , but BR surprisingly stumped up £500,000 for short-term repairs , and , after a seven-month closure , the line was back in business . |
13 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
14 | In other words she herself is opening up avenues for all sorts of intuitive meanings . |
15 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
16 | Led by a man named William Shorter , the gang had begun as a small group of poachers , their nickname derived from their dark clothing and blacked up faces for nocturnal raids in the forest . |
17 | The Government have often been accused of singling out students for special treatment under the rules . |
18 | The fieldworker presented the research quite accurately as a study of the neighbourhood , including its language , without singling out language for particular comment . |
19 | That 's the um general er consensus in most of the things I 've read in trying to find out stuff for this lecture . |
20 | Paul Hardyman ( full back ) : A few months ago Hardyman was down in the dumps Sunderland had shelled out £350,000 for another left back , Anton Rogan , and his days at Roker looked numbered . |
21 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
22 | The slim week Cut down food for one week then return to the basic plan . |
23 | And yet — so ran her disjointed thoughts — had n't one always been taught that Christmas was the time when one should give up things for other people ? |
24 | It was n't difficult to pick up people for casual sex but it was difficult to transfer that casual sex contact into any sort of relationship . |
25 | Thus policy-makers need to consider not just how to open up employment for lone mothers , but also how best to support those who are not employed . |
26 | In fact , it was the extra revenue she brought in at the baby end that enabled the charity to open up units for cervical cancer , and fund other research into unappealing but equally vital conditions . |
27 | Councils were supposed to set up sites for industrial and domestic wastes ; the Baldonnell site was to marshal other unsuitable wastes . |
28 | ‘ It took seven months to settle the claim for the car and well over a year to sort out compensation for both my injuries and for the inconvenience , ’ says Otis . |
29 | A Douglas Dakota DC3 , which was used as a US Army Air Force Skytrain in World War Two , will help bring back memories for old war dogs . |
30 | The author defined the three primary tasks of American base policy in this region as follows : to help carry out plans for American rapid deployment forces in crises , to secure a permanent United States ' military-naval presence in this region , and to transform this zone into a potential front of strategic nuclear war . |