Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] for [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payments the peasantry made for access to noble land , whether in the form of share-cropping , labour rent or money rent , constituted a massive burden upon the rural economy . |
| 2 | But Charles now had another little job to do : the new Act allowed for pavements to be laid in the town , with the proviso that : |
| 3 | 1,400 ready to become priests as they win a historic vote FOURTEEN hundred women who want to be Anglican priests got the green light yesterday when the church 's ruling body voted for women to be ordained . |
| 4 | The limit in respect of any one accident insured for injury to members of the public has been increased from £500,000 to £1,000,000 . |
| 5 | There may be room left for additions to the number of products , product types , factories , categories , etc . |
| 6 | Copies of all the counter proposals and representations were then placed on local deposit in council offices and a further period allowed for representations to be made about them . |
| 7 | It seems inevitable that the social profile of lawyers is going to be markedly different from that of society at large because the social profile of persons attaining the level of educational achievement required for admission to higher education does not itself correspond with that of the whole community . |
| 8 | On a number of occasions , the fieldworker arranged for subjects to self-record themselves and their friends , with excellent results . |
| 9 | Fazekas de St Groth calls his system ‘ ascites without the mouse ’ ; it is based on a method used for decades to Brow bacteria in suspension . |
| 10 | The weekly trade newsletter said yesterday that the deal struck by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries last month called for shipments to be cut by about 2 million barrels per day on the February level of about 25.6 million bpd . |
| 11 | The Charter provided for assistance to " economies in transition " ( notably those of the republics of the Soviet Union ) in developing their energy supplies , principally by encouraging private investment . |
| 12 | An original draft of the Hay-Pauncefoote treaty provided for notification to and accession by third States . |
| 13 | Laura moved round to the side of the kiln — it was a roughly built cube of fire-bricks the colour of pale sand , with a bricked-up Norman door-arch on one side and a narrow throat at the rear which led to a tall , cast-iron stovepipe wired for support to the studio wall and a bough of a late-flowering cherry tree across the yard . |
| 14 | In retaliation for the economic blockade of Slovenia imposed by Serbia at the beginning of December 1989 [ see p. 37131 ] , the Slovene government on Feb. 22 decided to withhold payment of 15 per cent of the republic 's contribution to the federal budget , representing the amount designated for subsidies to the Serbian economy . |
| 15 | Persons wishing to complain but who have difficulty in explaining their case will be put in touch with a solicitor on the Interview Panel , who will see the complainant and will help to put together the information needed for presentation to the SCB . |
| 16 | The congress called for priority to be given to achieving self-sufficiency in food production and to raising the level of industrialization , stressing that both these aims depended on a politically stable environment in which democracy prevailed . |
| 17 | The lengthy period of training required for admission to either branch of the profession has a socializing effect on entrants to the profession . |
| 18 | Given that the outcome of market transactions is inevitably uncertain , though some transactions are more uncertain than others , the amount of information required for exchange to be efficient can not be precisely established , leaving plenty of scope for argument . |
| 19 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 20 | The legislation made provision for the compulsory purchase of 5,500,000 hectares of predominantly white-owned land earmarked for redistribution to black families . |
| 21 | Originally the scheme allowed for pensions to be calculated on the best twenty years of earnings , which at least went some way towards enabling women , who spend some rime out of the labour market caring for dependants , to maximize their future pension . |
| 22 | The Convention allowed for application to non-parties on the basis of reciprocity . |
| 23 | An earlier agreement on July 4 between the Paraguayan National Power Administration and the Argentinian Water and Energy Company allowed for water to be supplied to Argentina 's north-eastern region . |
| 24 | But there may also be : ( 1 ) receipts of mesne profits in the case of subtenants holding over ; ( 2 ) premiums paid for surrenders or lease variations ; ( 3 ) money payable under insurance policies for damage to the scheme or for loss of rent and commissions paid by the insurers to the tenant ; ( 4 ) damages for breach of covenant ( eg dilapidations ) ; ( 5 ) interest on late rent , on reviewed rent , and on damages ; ( 6 ) grants or other public money paid for works to the scheme ; ( 7 ) compensation for compulsory acquisition . |
| 25 | It is thought that this would have increased the flow of heat to the base of the lithosphere sufficiently to cause a phase change in the uppermost continental mantle after a delay of up to 70 Ma ( the time taken for heat to be conducted from the base of the lithosphere to just below the Moho ) . |
| 26 | Of the time estimated for Inverness to Dalwhinnie he said : ’ It 's unrealistic unless you are travelling in a dustcart . ’ |
| 27 | Most of the radionuclides released are of local or regional concern , because their half-lives are short compared with the time required for dispersion to greater distances . |