Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll miss the involvement but it 's too important for England to qualify for the World Cup finals to take any chances . ’ |
| 2 | When solving the up- or down-problem at node k in preceding sections , we first modified the original tableau of LPk to allow for the new or changed , upper or lower bound . |
| 3 | For example , McCullough cites the failure of Sibelius to compose for the last 20 years of his life as in part due to his discomfort at the rise of a genre of music with which he felt no affinity . |
| 4 | We have improved the model by including bromine chemistry and refined the treatment of PSCs to allow for the sedimentation and evaporation as described in section 5 of ref. 9 . |
| 5 | It 's a challenging objective and there is general recognition among the senior administrators that it is going to take a tremendous effort , one that is both concerted and coordinated , for Canada to qualify for the 1995 quarter-finals . |
| 6 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 7 | ‘ There are good signs for Norway to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 8 | ’ ( i ) We have an invitation from Spain to tender for the line Locke has surveyed between Barcelona and Mataro . |
| 9 | EAST GERMANY yesterday effectively barred its citizens from Czechoslovakia , but agreed to allow the second wave of refugees crammed into the West German embassy in Prague to leave for the West . |
| 10 | Two years ago Siu-ming left her job as a solicitor in Bath to work for the women 's workshop and train as a cabinetmaker at Brunel Technical College , on block release . |
| 11 | Directly beneath the castle walls are the low , picturesque red roofs of the Italian quarter , where the masons and architects , artists and sculptors lodged when they first arrived from Italy to work for the kings of Bohemia . |
| 12 | On March 28 as every year , ex-servicemen of the North will gather at Morrisons in Darlington to bowl for the Roland and George Bradford trophies for the honours of their Messes . |
| 13 | IN 1990 , I was in Kosovo to report for The Scotsman . |
| 14 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 15 | A week later , the trial was told , MacIver had hired a car and followed the lorry to Inverness to prepare for the robbery . |
| 16 | He subsequently offered to supply free electricity to Czechoslovakia to compensate for the loss of generating capacity from the plant . |
| 17 | In all his self-justifications , Joyce talked of having come to Germany to fight for the new order against Bolshevism and Jewry . |
| 18 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 19 | Up on the Wolds , the Scots were looting and killing at Malton and around the villages of Kilham and Rudston ; shrewdly the prior of Bridlington sent a Scottish-born canon to Malton to negotiate for the safety of his house , while at the same time the priory prudently removed all its muniments , vestments and precious relics ( a piece of the true cross among them ) to Goxhill , in Lincolnshire , and left only eight canons with one chalice in Bridlington . |
| 20 | Christie 's has even gone to Washington to lobby for the bill . |
| 21 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 22 | An advance party is due to leave Ipswich Airport on Monday to prepare for the installation of X-ray equipment at a hospital in the city of Cluj . |
| 23 | Hostilities in Europe ended on May 8 , and soon after the Squadron was informed that it would be going to the Far East as part of the ‘ Tiger Force ’ , and on June 16 Sugar went with the rest of the unit to Metheringham to prepare for the move . |
| 24 | Probably Ireland 's best known festive event by far — and Guinness has been its longest and strongest ally — is the Rose of Tralee Festival where every year contestants from throughout the world come to Kerry to compete for the coveted Rose of Tralee title . |
| 25 | The son of a highly respected medical practitioner in the Sacred Heart parish in Leeds , he was educated by the Benedictines at Fort Augustus before proceeding to Ushaw to prepare for the priesthood . |
| 26 | On the Gulf crisis , the Council denounced Iraq 's " unscrupulous use " of hostages and agreed unanimously " not to send representatives of their governments in any capacity to negotiate with Iraq the release of foreign hostages and to discourage others from doing so " , while calling on the UN Secretary-General to send a special representative to Iraq to press for the hostages ' release . |
| 27 | This is surely a babyhood memory , slightly corrupted , of seeing the word ‘ toilets ’ reflected fleetingly in my nurse 's spectacles when we travelled from London to Dover to sail for the continent . |
| 28 | This last had the support of the man who had come to symbolise the Franco-American alliance , Marie Joseph de Motier , Marquis de Lafayette , who having gone to America to fight for the rebel colonists , in May 1779 returned to France a major-general in the US army . |
| 29 | Border , who once said that the day Marsh and David Boon are out of the Australian side will be the day he goes as well , got back out on the ground soon enough , but he continued to fuel the fire by staying behind in Adelaide that evening while the rest of the team flew on to Perth to prepare for the fifth and final Test . |
| 30 | ‘ You know he went back to Poland to spy for the West ? ’ |