Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to exclude liability for negligence are governed by s. 2 . |
| 2 | BP 's case for a reduction in North Sea taxes to provide room for manoeuvre smacks of special pleading . |
| 3 | If conservationists manage to save the leopard , bobcat and alerce , they may lose some of the battles that will be fought over dozens of other issues including proposals to increase protection for hair seals and whales , to decrease protection for Nile and saltwater crocodiles , and to weaken controls in the trade in ivory and sea turtles . |
| 4 | If the master feels that a transfer should be considered , he will direct the court to give notice to the parties to attend court for consideration of the matter . |
| 5 | In history , in particular , the use of computers to provide material for use in monographs , once a matter to be trumpeted in the text , became a commonplace to be noted without elaboration in footnotes . |
| 6 | Thousands of people crowded into the streets during the day , converging on the government offices to demonstrate support for Koffigoh . |
| 7 | John Westley has taken over 12 million paces to raise money for charity |
| 8 | These were people who saw local opportunities to improve transport for fuel , raw materials and goods and so to make profits for themselves . |
| 9 | 1 identify , in the course of the annual audit effort , specific local opportunities to improve value for money by reference to other steps that have already been taken successfully in other authorities facing similar problems ; 2 promote good management practice by documenting achievements and training auditors to spot potential improvements , and publishing the results of special reports ; 3 encourage — even promote — action , though ( auditors ’ ) reports to officers and members , management letters to the authority and ( if necessary ) reports in the public interest ; 4 monitor implementation performance during annual audits , drawing attention as required to any shortfall ; 5 co-ordinate the efforts of related organizations . |
| 10 | Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery . |
| 11 | Leasing Solutions Inc , a San Jose company dealing in information processing and communications equipment , principally leasing it ‘ to large creditworthy companies ’ , got its initial public offering of 1m new shares away at $5.00 per share and plans to use the $4.5m or so net proceeds to buy equipment for lease . |
| 12 | Some jobs were too short-lived for them to build up sufficient contributions to acquire eligibility for unemployment benefit . |
| 13 | The ‘ verbal stringers ’ will be trained to use a simple tape recorder and cassette tapes to gather material for news and feature stories . |
| 14 | He liked his guests to give value for money ; this wordless young fellow had so far given none . |
| 15 | Would you be kind enough to mention that Needle Sports of Keswick sells secondhand guidebooks to raise money for North of England Children 's Cancer Research ( NECCR ) , a registered charity . |
| 16 | Ms Armstrong also disputes Mr Fallon 's claim in a written reply to a Parliamentary Question , in which he said it has been the policy of successive governments to refuse funding for church school expansion when there was room in non-church schools nearby . |
| 17 | That information is sent to tactical computers in control stations to produce guidance for artillery and missiles — the American army 's new tactical missile system has been designed to operate as part of such a set-up , hitting targets more than 100km ( 60 miles ) off . |
| 18 | The Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Trading Standards ( LACOTS ) and the National Metrological Co-ordinating Unit have invited Trading Standards Authorities to submit information for inclusion in their fourth edition of the above Index . |
| 19 | For each agency , departments should provide information on gross and net cash provision , and manpower and other establishment costs , along with a description of its aims , objectives and efforts to provide value for money . |
| 20 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 21 | THE GOVERNMENT has bowed to pressure from farmers to increase compensation for damage caused by the recent flooding of the Rivers Tay and Spey . |
| 22 | Some journals expect outgoing editors to retain responsibility for work in progress when they leave . |
| 23 | In fact , however , their very rarity served only to make the procedure arbitrary in the extreme and , indeed , may have added to the reluctance of owners to offer land for development at all . |
| 24 | We will begin by briefly mentioning one of the first experiments to investigate memory for prose passages , as distinct from single sentences . |
| 25 | The Minister has said that his Department has contacted the local authorities , but when will the Government accept that the local authorities have the strategy and the enabling powers to make provision for housing , especially for the homeless and perhaps for some of the 40,000 personnel who will be leaving the armed forces in the near future ? |
| 26 | In Grieco 's study of the use of kin networks to gain employment for example , one of her female respondents , a worker in a tobacco factory in Basildon , told her , |
| 27 | Take out faded annuals to make room for spring bedding plants . |
| 28 | He emphasised that the European Parliament should be given more teeth to ensure value for money and for scrutinising how the Commission spends taxpayers ' money . |
| 29 | Much of Australia 's farmlands are threatened with salination , caused in part by the consequences of farmers cutting down trees to clear land for wheat and other crops . |
| 30 | The SES also oversees a separate market , the SESDAQ , which provides an alternative listing , enabling small and medium-sized companies with good growth prospects to raise finance for expansion . |