Example sentences of "[verb] for the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When the surviving Romanovs asked for the house where the Tsar was killed to be turned into a museum , Yeltsin and his Politburo colleagues had it demolished . |
| 32 | As well as 15 graphs and twelve types of tables , there are flow charts , Gantt charts , organisation charts and calendar displays for the months up to December 1994 . |
| 33 | She expected him to keep looking over his shoulder to make sure that all the fuss was not intended for the man behind . |
| 34 | Bull was always , first and foremost , a virtuoso both of technical invention and obviously of performance , even in compositions probably or certainly intended for the organ where he appears as the direct heir of Preston and Blitheman . |
| 35 | A popular edition is a version of a text intended for the general rather than the academic reader . |
| 36 | Despite her depression she occupied herself with office tasks , and , although there were times when she dabbed at a tear , she reminded herself that she must prepare for the time when she would never see Silas again . |
| 37 | Sir Percival Sharp fought for the AEC mainly on the first issue — but could find no support — so that the second , the potential extension of the power of central government , went largely unchallenged . |
| 38 | No book can do in two hours what any club 's teaching professional can do in two minutes , and that , perhaps surprisingly , goes for the video too . |
| 39 | And that , of course , goes for the jacket too . |
| 40 | The Scots are too intelligent to fall for the propaganda then prevalent in London and other large English centres . |
| 41 | Maggie sat with the others and Natasha made for the bar where Muriel , an orange-haired dragon somewhere in her seventies , held sway as chief barmaid . |
| 42 | I made for the sideboard again to hover . |
| 43 | I have never heard of anybody , apart from people who may hope to get good jobs in these bogus new regional authorities , who , thrilled by a weird kind of socialist local patriotism , longs for the day when the flag of the East Midland Region is raised over the Great Roundabout of Retford , or the parliament of the West Midland Region holds its inaugural meeting at Telford New Town . |
| 44 | The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ . |
| 45 | But New Zealand farmers could not be better placed for the day when ( if ) other rich countries lower barriers to food imports and abolish farm subsidies . |
| 46 | With production set to double by 1995 and against a background of firmer oil prices , we are well placed for the decade ahead . |
| 47 | This is designed for the situation where it may be necessary to make the shares of a departing employee or director available to attract replacement management . |
| 48 | There is , therefore , a danger that the assessment is carried out solely to determine the diagnosis and that treatment is designed for the diagnosis rather than for the child . |
| 49 | For the most part , however , these systems were of limited range , designed for the battlefield rather than for strategic use and more suitable for targets in Khuzestan than Tehran . |
| 50 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 51 | At the moment teams still seem interested in my services , but it , at the end of the season , the opportunity to try for the Championship no longer exists , then , no question , I shall step aside . ’ |
| 52 | Robyn rose early to skies that promised a truly blissful day of warm summer sunshine , showered and dressed and then drove off in her dilapidated jeep which was packed to the gunwales with everything she might possibly need for the day ahead . |
| 53 | The rules relating to succession to the Crown thus provide for the identification not merely of a part of Parliament but for that of the head of state in all respects . |
| 54 | I long for the day when those in authority will be united in a common quest to win the lost without worrying about the style of Anglican worship ; when they will see that a prime means to evangelise our nation will be to plant churches and encourage it without worrying about parochial boundaries . |
| 55 | He adds : ‘ If you long for the day when Britain can claim to be the first mainly Afro-Asian part of Europe , vote Conservative or Europe . ’ |
| 56 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 57 | Send for the brochure today . |
| 58 | But the disc is probably worth purchasing for the Weill alone , a work which Klemperer commissioned from the composer after attending and enjoying performances of the Dreigroschenoper in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 59 | NIREX will opt for the place where they are least likely to meet opposition . |
| 60 | I doubt whether the introduction of Water Lilies can be blamed for the problem either . |