Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make electroplating equipment for other manufatcturers . |
| 2 | In the summer , the cliffs provide nesting ledges for millions of kittiwakes , little auks and Brunwich 's guillemots . |
| 3 | You ever tried keeping milk for five kids without a fridge in a heatwave ? ’ |
| 4 | stories , outings and practical experience all provide starting points for mathematical exploration . |
| 5 | Although it is realised that many of those teaching in London are also associated with outer counties it was suggested that London teachers might consider taking responsibility for this year 's Reunion . |
| 6 | Covering artists from Byzantine times to the nineteenth century , it should allow scholars to establish underdrawing styles for individual painters . |
| 7 | I hope that my right hon. Friends will consider finding time for such legislation when they penetrate the meaning of that wonderful phrase , ’ Further measures will be laid before you . ’ |
| 8 | Some public libraries ( and more frequently , university libraries ) also place standing orders for all the works in a series . |
| 9 | This project will investigate the characteristics and residential decision making of households living in the sector and the extent to which conversions comprise a first affordable step on the owner occupied housing ladder for young first time buyers . |
| 10 | The prognosis is for more full-time and part-time degree courses , providing study based upon technology , but incorporating management skills , together with enhanced distance learning facilities to provide bridging courses for non-cognate graduates . |
| 11 | Enterprise zones , therefore , introduced the concept of the simplified planning regime , intended to speed up planning applications and to give deemed planning consent for many developments . |
| 12 | Other programs provide updating facilities for many main files , either for groups of records or for individual records selectively presented on screens . |
| 13 | Norway imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1987 and in 1991 , for the first time , stopped killing whales for scientific purposes . |
| 14 | Section 1 of the Clean Air Act 1956 prohibits the emission of dark smoke from a chimney of any building , whilst allowing regulations to be made exempting emissions for prescribed periods . |
| 15 | A haematological screening test for FAP is now possible and there is potential to design screening tests for hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer and asymptomatic sporadic disease in the future . |
| 16 | The policy was to restrict planning permissions for new house building to about 70 dwellings per annum . |
| 17 | ‘ I have never regretted signing Beardsley for one minute . |
| 18 | The consortium intends picking suppliers for federated naming ( which may be used in the object management system to enhance seamless support for multiple object managers ) , multimedia support and object management in the third quarter . |
| 19 | Member states were allowed a discretion as to whether to include a state of the art defence and its inclusion is controversial as states which do have the defence could become testing grounds for new products . |
| 20 | The company also paid travelling expenses for all employees following the move of their department for a six-month period . |
| 21 | Sometimes lighting levels will need to be reduced to avoid distracting dazzle for photophobic children . |
| 22 | Thus , it is not surprising that , even though the snowball group were older than their known counterparts when they began using drugs for recreational purposes ( a modal age of 16 against 15 ) , they were initiated into heroin use at an earlier age ( a modal age of 16 against 17 ) . |
| 23 | The major thrust may have been carried by a dozen committed individuals , but when push has come to shove , the YCCC have been able to fill meeting halls for important confrontations , and have succeeded in getting eight places out of eleven on the City Council filled by candidates representing a broad coalition under the slogan ‘ It 's time for change , ’ which campaigned specifically on local issues . |
| 24 | By the fifteenth century they seem to have become dumping grounds for unwanted , unmarriageable or troublesome genteel ladies of little fortune . |
| 25 | It is important not to risk giving cause for life-long resentments and recriminations . |
| 26 | ‘ I also felt that no serial/story should last longer than between four and six episodes ( I did n't want to risk losing audiences for longer , should one story not appeal ) . |
| 27 | Following several years of development work and unsuccessful but nevertheless promising trials in late 1905 and early 1906 , he won the support of John ( later first Earl ) Jellicoe , ( Sir ) Percy Scott , and Sir John ( later first Baron ) Fisher [ qq.v. ] , which resulted in the establishment of an agreement to perfect the civilian inventor 's ideas for a mechanical system of using observed ranges and bearings to calculate firing solutions for naval artillery that would take account of the relative motion of the firing ship and target . |
| 28 | After a sound seven-year grounding as a buyer for La Rinascente — Italy 's answer to Selfridges — he started designing menswear for Italian fashion giant of the Sixties and Seventies , Nino Cerruti . |
| 29 | A new survey by a firm called Nurseries at Work also says that with booming European trade , firms are having to consider providing child-care for working mothers . |
| 30 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |