Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun pl] for " in BNC.

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1 Home Office Minister of State Michael Jack said later in a Commons written reply that the Government had no immediate plans to increase the penalties for the possession of porno-graphic material .
2 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to increase the penalties for the unlawful occupation of private or public land by traveller families ; and if he will make a statement .
3 Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to establish the methods for inverting the satellite observations , that will estimate the topography and quantify the errors .
4 Prior to his death , he had been planning a full-scale war with Scotland , calling upon his subjects to raise the revenues for the undertaking .
5 Like China 's famous panda , the baiji is a fully protected species , recognised as part of China 's natural heritage , and the Chinese government has taken several steps to improve the prospects for the animal 's continued survival into the twenty-first century .
6 Downing Street will supply them with special forms to state the reasons for their recommendations .
7 Practice specific work includes analysis of prescribing and visits to understand the reasons for apparent over- and under-prescribing .
8 Have we identified specialists in the main areas to assess the implications for the authority of the proposals ?
9 It had taken a score of masons a score of years to hammer the pitons for all those , hanging from their work as they progressed .
10 The Organization of American States ( OAS ) announced in Washington on Aug. 28 that it had decided to send observers to oversee the elections for a Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) scheduled to be held on Nov. 22 .
11 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will meet representatives of British airlines to discuss the consequences for the British aircraft engineering industry of their recent decisions on purchasing aircraft and engines .
12 Soviet spokesmen claim that the revised conditions governing American access to these bases since 1983 still permit the Americans ‘ unlimited possibilities to use the bases for their operational goals ’ .
13 The IBOA has put forward several ideas to improve the proposals for Voluntary Redundancy , Early Retirement , Career Breaks and Job Sharing .
14 However , it is often also expedient for political executives to conceal the reasons for their decisions behind a veil of secrecy , so bureaucrats and politicians may be drawn into an alliance against other politicians ( the Opposition ) and the public to enhance their collective power through confidentiality .
15 You may be reading this newsletter as someone the Regional Council has consulted in its efforts to identify the options for reform in Lothian .
16 There were n't enough rupees to oil the wheels for those ‘ whose hands are greased not from honest toil ’ , as an Indian newspaper euphemistically described sticky palms .
17 9.21 Provisions re-entry Almost all modern commercial leases contain provisions for the landlord and other persons to enter the premises for various reasons .
18 In two years he hopes to complete his work , which could become a model for future generations to save the rainforests for centuries to come .
19 Although there are moves to define the requirements for a next generation user environment , UEC II ( UX No 391 ) , which will be a ‘ highly evolved ’ version of Motif , that wo n't be around until 1995 , and there are some more immediate issues that need to be addressed , according to IXI .
20 It 's become a reflex for critics to castigate the readers for being partisan , for being sluggish and single-minded in their choices .
21 It will view the events of Maastricht as important , but as yesterday 's agenda , and it will marvel at the failure of countries and their leaders to grasp the opportunities for progress .
22 These requirements represent an attempt mainly by social and psychological researchers to formalise the conditions for measurement in the social sciences , and one that has been remarkably successful judging by the extent to which such scale types are taken as the standard fare for methods training .
23 One had pictures of a cube , sphere , cylinder , cuboid , pyramid and cone and asked pupils to provide the names for them .
24 EC Industry Ministers failed on Dec. 22 , 1989 , to reach agreement on measures to liberalize the systems for public procurement in the EC , regarded as one of the most important aspects of the single market process , since it accounted for some 15 per cent of total gross national product ( GNP ) of the 12 member countries .
25 Where fundholders had encouraged local hospitals to improve the services for their own patients , other patients attending the hospital also benefited .
26 David Jenkins , spokesman for RoSPA , said : ‘ It 's unfair for stores to blame the users for accidents .
27 There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones .
28 Again , we had suffered from a lack of screens to back the tables for display purposes and privacy .
29 The former , according to Dr Oliver Rackham , indicates that areas of woodland were being carefully managed as coppices with standards in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages to produce the poles for rails and hurdles and the timber for the heavier tracks .
30 Nicholas instructed his foreign missions to issue no visas for entry into Russia without seeking St Petersburg 's assent .
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