Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 2 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 3 | However , the fact that the child has language difficulties is probably a good indication that exposure to the kinds of language which enable most children to learn will not be sufficient to enable this child to make progress ; she may require adult input which is specially tailored to help compensate for particular areas of weakness . |
| 4 | The government 's proposals for regulation of the water industry , announced in August 1989 , provided a £4.9 billion debt write-off and an injection of new funds to the tune of £1 billion , referred to as a Green Dowry , to help pay for environmental improvements . |
| 5 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 6 | In many cases the shabashniki have abandoned their official jobs and are organized into independent teams who no longer do work for private individuals but work virtually as ‘ troubleshooters ’ for public concerns which have run into problems . |
| 7 | Erm , Mr Evans er will reply to that , obviously we we do plan for certain levels . |
| 8 | Now we did look for better things . |
| 9 | As the century progressed and belief in eternal damnation began to lose its hold , so too did fear for unbaptised children . |
| 10 | We know some of the major organisations in the country actually do look for chartered engineers with the disciplines of civil , mechanical , electrical er , gas engineers , chemical engineers , energy engineers , as the case may be . |
| 11 | It appears that he did search for 3-dimensional examples but could find none without divisors of zero . |
| 12 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I can honestly say that the facts are correct : I am thirty-two , I did live for many years in Scotland , and yes , I do head one of the largest investment corporations in the country . ’ |
| 14 | Machinery does exist for selected authorities to appeal to the Secretary of State , and in 1986/7 several rate-capped councils appealed for and obtained redetermined spending levels . |
| 15 | Although occasional direct personal documentation does exist for earlier periods , and more could no doubt be found , for the moment we have no choice but to sketch the history of later life in the past without the intimate testimony of older people and their families . |
| 16 | But then it does run for 20 nights . |
| 17 | Text entry is not quite so simple and a little and time consuming , but it does allow for individual pieces of text to be attached to specific notes and symbols which stay attached to the correct notes even when you have edited a piece extensively . |