Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers . |
| 2 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 3 | one who steals bodies from cemeteries to sell them for dissection , like Jerry Cruncher in TTC . |
| 4 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 5 | JESCOMEA , the east Asian Jesuit communications group , plans to provide audiovisuals and technology to Cambodian refugees to prepare them for repatriation . |
| 6 | In their place , he has advocated a more activist government role in the economy , by increasing public works spending , cutting middle-class taxes and retraining workers to prepare them for competition in the global marketplace . |
| 7 | After more than five years of talks , outstanding difficulties centred on ( i ) whether it could be acceptable under GATT rules for the EC to make direct payments to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies ( a key part of plans to reform the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy ) ; ( ii ) the volume of EC grain exports ; and ( iii ) EC demands for limits on US exports of cereal substitutes to the EC . |
| 8 | A reunion of the ship 's company is to be held in the RNA Club , Leamington Spa , on Saturday , July 3 , and I invite all members to contact me for details on or by letter . |
| 9 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |
| 10 | More gannets will be arriving daily from winter quarters , which may be as far south as the coastal waters of West Africa and with them will come the great skuas to harry them for food . |
| 11 | Always baked baked her own bread and we used go , we used to run that to the to the bakers to have it for baking sort of thing . |
| 12 | On Tuesday deliveries of the planings began , and for the rest of the week two of us , both volunteers , drove dumper trucks to deposit the material in small piles , which the bulldozer later smoothed out ( driving dumper trucks proved a popular occupation — there was no shortage of helpers to relieve us for breaks . |