Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 2 | When we do make up our minds to lose the excess , however , we tend to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term success : our aim is to get to our target weight as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 4 | I do prefer to wear smart clothes for work ; it 's still not easy for women in business to be taken seriously — I like to look the part . |
| 5 | If a diamond design is used , for example , omitting some woven rows will spoil the effect , but the diamond could be redesigned to include plain rows for the stocking stitch knitting . |
| 6 | In one case , the High Court turned down a complaint that an authority failed to provide unstressful transport for a child because regulations governing ‘ statementing ’ do not require an authority to specify that there should be non-stressful transport . |
| 7 | For example , the estimator and standard price books use a common labour constant for brickwork ; in practice the labour constant could be adjusted to provide different targets for , say , work at ground level and work in the gables . |
| 8 | These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles . |
| 9 | These latter had to go to provide matching bricks for the new rooms and the space needed for the next stage in the expansion , a new Gymnasium beside the 1962 Pavilion . |
| 10 | But a spokesman for Asda said confidence was brittle and retailers would have to continue to provide real value for money in the battle to win an important share of High Street custom . |
| 11 | A new company , Trivector Technical Services , has been formed to provide technical support for Trivector System designed products including the Trilab , Trio and LA ranges of chromatography integrators . |
| 12 | During the ensuing correspondence attempts were made on behalf of the applicant to obtain a much larger postponement whilst he sought to obtain legal aid for representation at the interview , but the Director of the Serious Fraud Office did not agree , and on 24 June she caused a further notice to be served , identical to the first , save that the interview was now to take place on 26 June , and the ‘ person under investigation ’ was identified as the applicant alone . |
| 13 | The total number of boat people in Hong Kong had reached some 56,000 as of October 1989 [ see p. 36975 ] , and the UK had in January 1990 failed to secure international approval for a policy of involuntary repatriation [ see pp. 37121-22 ; 37185 ] . |
| 14 | The presence of such items in a church may have been intended to increase popular respect for the monarchy . |
| 15 | It also agreed to request international assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Cambodia . |
| 16 | The US administration agreed to provide unspecified aid for development and reconstruction . |
| 17 | The peace movement can not ignore international law , not merely because many existing provisions tend to provide legal support for the claim that the use of nuclear weapons would be illegal , but also because , in theory at least , it provides the means by which states can bind themselves to restrict the manufacture , storage and use of such weapons ( non-proliferation treaties and regional nuclear-free zones are examples of this ) . |
| 18 | m pond , believed to be the largest operating solar collector in the world , was intended to provide hot water for a nearby hotel . |
| 19 | A sculptor as well as a painter , Roscheck 's watercolours are intended to provide ideal landscapes for her sculptures . |
| 20 | If the Carrier agrees to accept Dangerous Goods for carriage such goods must be accompanied by a full declaration of their nature and contents and be properly and safely packed and labelled in accordance with any statutory regulations for the time being in force for carriage by road . |
| 21 | Negotiations on June 2 in Moscow between the Russian and Moldovan Foreign Ministers agreed to establish working groups for a negotiated settlement . |
| 22 | In the abdomen apodemes are developed to provide firm origins for some of the more important muscles . |
| 23 | Yeltsin took the opportunity of the summit to warn that the reform process in Russia could be jeopardized by economic problems ; Bush was reported to support early entry for Russia to the IMF , but there were no new US aid proposals . |
| 24 | At the same time , two other research programmes that stood to benefit handsomely from the stimulus plan — the $103 million proposed for the Advanced Technology Program ( ATP ) within the Department of Commerce and $47 million sought for cooperative research agreements between industry and the national laboratories in the Department of Energy — are expected to remain important priorities for the Clinton administration and to enjoy rising budgets in 1994 despite the temporary setback in Congress . |
| 25 | What you want to wear white shirt for you 're not going out in your suit ? |
| 26 | Reorganizing the lay-out of the production process can therefore permit the much greater automation of final assembly processes if robots , for example , can be programmed to perform different operations for different models almost to the exact moment the components arrive . |
| 27 | Local authorities , parents and others concerned with the child are expected to agree reasonable arrangements for contact before a care order , whether final or interim , is made . |
| 28 | NHL is endeavouring to arrange alternative cover for its borrowers . |
| 29 | Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives . |
| 30 | It should be designed to provide optimal conditions for the man rather than the machine . |