Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | While Tshwete was in Australia and New Zealand following the Cricket World Cup , a leading ANC sports activist , Mr Mluleki George , who also chairs the NOSC ( the National Olympic and Sports Congress , recognised by most Commonwealth governments as the voice of non-Olympic sports in South Africa ) , wrote letters to the governing bodies and the authorities in Australia , New Zealand , France and England demanding they ban or discourage the planned tours to and from the Republic , arguing that the development programme about to be launched by the SARFU was only a smokescreen designed to provide a cover for the international aspirations of the white rugby establishment . |
| 32 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 33 | Furthermore the threat of losing independence by means of a hostile merger ( ie a takeover ) is claimed to provide a spur for management to strive for greater efficiency . |
| 34 | In The Favour , The Watch And The Very Big Fish Bob Hoskins plays a Paris photographer of religious themes who has to find a model for Christ on the cross and comes up with Jeff Goldblum , an ex-convict and former lover of an actress ( Natasha Richardson ) , who he meets at a pornographic dubbing studio . |
| 35 | ‘ Do you know anybody who wants to train a boy for work , Mr Sowerberry ? ’ |
| 36 | Frustration born out of watching history repeating itself prompted Anna Merz to try to establish a haven for Kenya 's beleaguered rhinos . |
| 37 | ‘ And , Mr Oak , ’ she continued in a clear voice , ‘ I 'm so poor that my aunt has to provide a home for me . |
| 38 | Cooke published influential articles in the School and the Teacher and helped to found a museum for London teachers . |
| 39 | FATHER 'S LOVE Lucy 's disability helped convince Mr Stringer that he should strive to provide a home for the mentally handi-capped which he would be happy to see his own daughter live in . |
| 40 | While endeavouring to find a title for my first book , Colin Harvey , the publisher , suggested ‘ Poems for Daffodil Teas ’ . |
| 41 | In the meantime I tried to find a home for Poppy to go to when ( or if ) we eventually caught her . |
| 42 | As reported briefly ( CI No 2,115 ) , initial agreement is expected to establish a standard for installing Unix software from within graphical user interfaces . |
| 43 | As reported briefly ( UX No 423 ) , initial agreement is expected to establish a standard for installing Unix software from within graphical user interfaces . |
| 44 | He claims that the last shelf time period recorded on a book is highly predictive of future use , and gives a description of a simple method by which such information is examined and analysed to provide a basis for the weeding of stock . |
| 45 | Xerox is today expected to announce that it has called in New York investment banker Goldman Sachs & Co to try to find a buyer for the company . |
| 46 | This afternoon , the liquidators were meeting to try to find a buyer for the holiday firm , which employs 6 staff at its offices in Summertown . |
| 47 | The pupils were asked to plot pairs of points and to try to find a rule for working out the coordinates of the midpoints of the lines joining these pairs of points . |
| 48 | Mr Oag will be using his prize of two return BA return tickets to any European destination and up to £1,000 of accommodation provided by Grant Thornton , with introductions to local contacts , to try to find a distributor for the German market . |
| 49 | Sometimes we do not even need to provide a substitute for a word or phrase which has already been said . |
| 50 | My hon. Friend the Member for Belfast , East ( Mr. Robinson ) and I understood that the basis of the talks was to try to secure a replacement for the Anglo-Irish Agreement and to make arrangements to safeguard the administration of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom . |
| 51 | If I want to visit a bank for a few minutes , I park my car as near as possible as many do , to be able to rush in and out again as quickly as possible . |
| 52 | The CBT , which operates the world 's largest futures market , now wants to open a market for pollution rights . |
| 53 | Angela now has to choose a name for her 7lb 8oz daughter . |
| 54 | After a short time he asked if he could have a whisky and soda , and when the ingredients were brought tried to pour a drink for the King . |
| 55 | Under the modern law , certiorari normally lies to quash a decision for error of law . |
| 56 | But if you are working from a consultancy or from an office situated at some distance from the manufacturing units you will need to organise a system for sending a product out and checking that it has gone . |
| 57 | He saw the question of how such contrarious genres as fabliau and romance could co-exist in medieval French literature as a critical problem , and consequently tried to identify a source for a taste which could explain the proliferation and regularization of fabliau , the narrative and comical substance of which he accepted as being ubiquitous . |
| 58 | The use of the phrase ‘ left to be inferred ’ is designed to fulfil a need for information in an international or political , not a judicial , context . |
| 59 | Later in 1993 , we expect to announce a scheme for developing the Mars field ( BP : x% ) and the area around it , which is estimated to contain about one billion barrels of proved and unproved reserves . |
| 60 | It 's not just a question of deciding what you want to use a camera for ; you also need to think about the quality you want . |