Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would welcome a system of licensing which allowed private clubs to apply for all-night music and dance licensing in suitable venues . |
| 2 | Thus Southwark , which exports 70% of adults needing residential care , will not receive adequate funding to pay for future placements . |
| 3 | Investors demand high returns to compensate for possible failure , making share issues an expensive way to raise cash . |
| 4 | It is possible to modify these various statements of the no-arbitrage condition to allow for continuous compounding . |
| 5 | Conservative Central Office will be able to make much of the suggestion that , under a Labour administration , secondary picketing would once again be lawful , that unions which ignored the courts would no longer face the possibility of sequestration and that it would not be possible for employers or other interested parties to apply for interim injunctions postponing precipitate strikes . |
| 6 | The Commission proposed retaining the principle of paying farmers direct subsidies to compensate for significant cuts in price support from 1993 to 1996 . |
| 7 | This is also a popular place to stop for hot drinks in winter , cold in summer or coffee and brandy any time . |
| 8 | Quietly , therefore , Mr Salinas has allowed foreign firms to compete for drilling-service contracts , and Pemex is now working together with American petrochemical companies in joint ventures . |
| 9 | For the moment we ignore government borrowing and consider the argument that high taxation to pay for high levels of public spending necessarily strangles the economy . |
| 10 | They profess wholehearted support for clean coal technology , but , by forcing British Coal to search for private sector money , the potentially world-beating topping cycle developments at Grimethorpe have been delayed and delayed . |
| 11 | On Jan. 11 Italy unblocked up to 10 per cent of frozen Iraqi assets to pay for Italian exports . |
| 12 | In many areas the indicator taken by the LEA for extra funding to compensate for urban disadvantage is the number of children registered for free school meals . |
| 13 | A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 14 | Each student on the parallel track was given a personal computer to use for electronic mail communication with tutors and other students and for access to bibliographic information . |
| 15 | Failure to push through the higher taxes would have a serious impact on Labour 's plans to raise extra revenue to pay for improved social benefits , such as higher pensions and child benefit . |
| 16 | I think probably the County Council are in a better position than me er to advise you as to whether that thirty one thousand commitment figure is true of not , but if it were the case , then I think , Yes I would agree that erm the train would stop very quickly , and in view of the situation that we 're now in , there would have to be a degree of future flexibility to allow for phased reduction in development over future years . |
| 17 | Marker cards which indicate either names ( e.g. " IMPERIALISM " or " R. PEEL " ) or letters ( i.e. " A " , " B " , " C " etc. ) should be inserted at appropriate places to allow for quick reference . |
| 18 | There are a number of additional provisions to cater for special circumstances . |
| 19 | Thus the aim of a two-part tariff is to use fixed charges to pay for fixed costs and then to levy marginal charges to cover marginal costs . |
| 20 | In mid-October a group of former civil servants and former senior members of the MCP announced the formation of the United Democratic Front to campaign for multiparty democracy . |
| 21 | This is obviously a strong incentive to go for long periods . |
| 22 | Individuals may not have access to private transport to substitute for inadequate public provision ; they may not be able to obtain a lift when necessary and they may not possess a telephone or the resources to obtain a car or phone . |
| 23 | They will eventually be forced to adjust their attitudes towards regional security to allow for popular attitudes , rather than for Western preference , or face dangerous domestic unrest and a radical intensification of Islam and Arab nationalism . |
| 24 | But it 's a good technical business to have for other people as well to know about . |
| 25 | In the end , however , the Ukrainian decision to vote for full independence left him with little alternative but to withdraw from the USSR and in effect bring about its demise ( see pp. 179–85 ) . |
| 26 | In 1987 , Italian statisticians added 18 per cent to their estimate of Italy 's national income to account for unrecorded economic activity . |
| 27 | One is that the cradle to grave provision of welfare , implicit in the Beveridge proposals , has proved to be too expensive and that the demand for welfare has grown faster than has the national income to pay for adequate comprehensive services and benefits . |
| 28 | His anthropological attempt to account for spatial variations in the nature of politics is countered by others who associate the origins of political variations across the earth 's surface with variations within the sphere of production ( notably with the core-periphery structure of the capitalist world-economy : Johnston , 1984d , 1989d ; Taylor , 1989 ) . |
| 29 | She was shouting after the Oye-Eboe who 'd brought gunpowder , beads and dried fish to trade for wood-ash salt and the perfumed woods and earth of his tribe . |
| 30 | During gastroscopy , the folds of Kerckring are assessed for any reduction and distal duodenal biopsy specimens are taken in all patients for histological examination to look for villous atrophy . |