Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer Horizons Corp 's largest shareholder , CGI Informatique SA , itself under agreed offer from IBM Corp , is seeking to persuade other shareholders to overturn corporate policies that it thinks deter potential acquisition offers for the Mountain Lakes , New Jersey company . |
| 2 | But they did manage to get as far as Wales , where the foothills of Snowdonia passed for the Karakoram mountains . |
| 3 | In addition , over 700 students and trainees in these centres are likely to be registered for the Skillstart awards . |
| 4 | This gives a breakdown of their main holiday-based activities and similar financial details are given for the holiday firms discussed in Table 11.1 . |
| 5 | I have read carefully the reasons given for the record levels of inward investment that has come into the United Kingdom , including Wales . |
| 6 | No financial assistance is given for the revenue costs of a project . |
| 7 | The whole story is that I was asked to ride Docklands Express , Cool Ground , Auntie Dot and Bonanza Boy in home gallops for the television cameras and then to compare the quartet . |
| 8 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering systems it now offers . |
| 9 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering solutions it now offers . |
| 10 | It seems likely that several factors account for the gender differences in morbidity and that there are different explanations for different types of illness . |
| 11 | This was done for all posts in the industry and the data were computerised in a similar manner to that undertaken for the study posts . |
| 12 | The physicists lived for the emulsion trails and double checked to see if they were interpreting them correctly . |
| 13 | Mr McAteer said : ‘ I was in the Sheriff Clerk 's Office and asked for the defence documents . |
| 14 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 15 | And to asked for the cream teas to be retained . |
| 16 | The Nixon administration , now on the defensive , asked for the Senate deadlines to be relaxed , but with strong public and media backing , the policy presented by Muskie was enacted . |
| 17 | Arriving at the podium to a standing ovation , Jesse asked for the house lights to be raised — ‘ so that I may speak unto the people ’ . |
| 18 | These directives could have been intended for the landscape gardeners , whose services were much in demand at this time and who used roses in their extensive planting schemes to provide unanticipated colour and fragrance for those taking a walk in wilderness greenery . |
| 19 | Yet this is not surprising when one realizes that both were close to the docks and that the iron foundries in their areas were more conveniently situated for the timber yards and wharfs along the north bank . |
| 20 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 21 | " The following morning the Deputation again visited the School previous to the Scholars being dismissed for the Midsummer Holidays , and having inspected the Book of Entry of the Scholars ' Admissions & c we found that the whole number of 150 had been received into the School — that on the day of examination 141 were present and the remaining 9 absent from suspension or illness and one by death . " |
| 22 | A few of the older ones qualify for the County Trials . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's true , ’ Anne agreed , ‘ but I think he should have been made to suffer for the way others suffered through him . |
| 25 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 26 | have access to independent safeguards against infringement of legal and civil rights services which recognise and provide for the support needs of their carers , whose goodwill must not be exploited . |
| 27 | However , ‘ fun ’ does not translate for the community relations policemen as something opposite to work : the ‘ fun ’ is taken as a serious job of work . |
| 28 | Thus reassured , I head for the exhibition halls and spend the day collecting promotional leaflets and free samples of new products that I have n't the faintest intention of buying . |
| 29 | With the race being the first nominated for the Commonwealth Games panel to ride , the 80-strong field contained a big 21 contingent of top riders and they closely marked each other for most of the race . |
| 30 | He even posed for the newspaper photographers , insisting only that they refrain from taking behind-the-bars type pictures . |