Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got picked for the washing up detail and with six others swept the kitchen and dining room , drank the dregs from the glasses and bottles and had a conversation with one of the cooks about Beirut . |
| 2 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 3 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering systems it now offers . |
| 4 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering solutions it now offers . |
| 5 | If life has developed for the enjoyment that it brings , and it started with the existence of a single cell , then it is reasonable to suppose that the single cell was capable of the detection of an extremely small measure of ‘ pleasure ’ which it could experience by satisfying some ‘ desire ’ . |
| 6 | if the driver has stopped for the purpose of complying with regulation 8 or regulation 10 ( to accord precedence and not overtake ) ; |
| 7 | Pietro Petraroia , soprintendente of the Brera , has arranged for the painting to be temporarily transferred to Milan for a detailed technical and stylistic comparison to be undertaken . |
| 8 | The local authority has arranged for the twins to attend some kind of daycare centre . |
| 9 | He has arranged for the agency staff to have lunch with the Managing Director and two experts in pollution control from the parent company who have travelled a considerable distance to attend . |
| 10 | Now that the new system of advanced courses is becoming well established the time has come for the work of the Central Support Unit to be absorbed into mainstream SCOTVEC Departments . |
| 11 | The Foreign Office Minister , Mr William Waldegrave , said : ‘ The message we must get across is that those in the security services , those working for the state , should recognise that a day of reckoning will come for them as it has come for the East Germans and others . ’ |
| 12 | The time has come for the party to choose and , in the final analysis , it has two coherent policies to choose from . |
| 13 | The time has come for the politicians to face up to their responsibilities , ’ Mr Rocard said . |
| 14 | THE TIME has come for the egg industry to look forward to the 1990s . |
| 15 | It is the third house Geoffrey , a property developer , has designed for the family . |
| 16 | He arrives on the scene about two minutes after the bell has rung for the start of break , clutching his large black Bible under his arm . |
| 17 | So he goes quietly home , sits and watches the telly with her a while ; then , in the commercial break perhaps , he leans forward , taps her on the head with whatever he has selected for the job , waits a couple of hours , then rings us . ’ |
| 18 | One of the originators of the Z CARS series , the founder of 7:84 theatre company and writer of THE CHEVIOT , THE STAG AND THE BLACK BLACK OIL , THE BOFORS GUN , BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN and more recently , BLOOD RED ROSES , John McGrath has written for the stage , television and film . |
| 19 | The above named has applied for the position of Trainee Trading Standards Officer with this Department , and has given us your name as a referee . |
| 20 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
| 21 | Recently , Lanham has argued for the retention of the exemption on the ground , inter alia , that many wives who are raped by their husbands have only themselves to blame . |
| 22 | He has argued for the introduction of a convertible currency parallel to the existing non-convertible rouble . |
| 23 | Fletcher ( 1990 ) has argued for the extension of cervical screening after the age of 65 years but as yet there has been no similar argument for breast cancer screening . |
| 24 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 25 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 26 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 27 | ‘ Japan is our biggest export market and we have seen what protectionism has done for the US automotive industry . ’ |
| 28 | Moreover , such a demonstration would produce an accessible shop window of ‘ green ’ street environments which could have just as dramatic an effect on the way we think about our public spaces as it has done for the Germans . |
| 29 | And we in turn thank her , for all the work she has done for the Society . |
| 30 | It is appropriate that , through the medium of Medau News , we should thank Rita very warmly indeed for all the dedicated work she has done for the Society . |