Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to provide for the children 's cognitive development , yet do not wish to assess them by something they are not fully competent in : the English language . |
| 2 | Contrary to popular belief , you do not have to know what you want to do for the Careers Service to be able to help you . |
| 3 | Ask the local authority 's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels . |
| 4 | I 've already made up my mind that I want to sign for the Blues . |
| 5 | Jeff Probyn , the England and Wasps prop overlooked for the Lions tour , has been called up as his replacement . |
| 6 | When the Orioles ' designated hitter lifts a three-run homer over the right field fence in the ninth to wrap it up at 9–3 , the resigned Sox faithful begin heading for the exits . |
| 7 | Between now and then , the Quality Development Programme will prepare the ground for the new Framework , giving SCOTVEC and centres time to prepare for the changes . |
| 8 | ‘ He had — I tell you this in confidence , Superintendent — he had , on the occasion of the annual Parents ’ Night , doctored with alcohol the fruit punch intended for the boarders who helped serve the modest refreshments . |
| 9 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 10 | You 've learned there 's no hope with one-night standers , so simply say thanks for the meal , but no thanks when they start asking for the afters . |
| 11 | A Grammar of Metaphor does not , by itself , constitute a theory of metaphor , and I have therefore had to rely on theories developed by philosophers and literary critics , while indicating where these fail to account for the aspects of Brooke-Rose 's writing that seem most interesting . |
| 12 | ‘ After London , I 'll go to train for a while in Boulder in the United States and start preparing for the Olympics . ’ |
| 13 | He went to his old billet and the old lady living there , after welcoming him warmly , said ‘ You 've come for the instruments of course ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ They 've come for the children 's parade , ’ he said softly , motioning her to a seat . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've volunteered for the Services . ’ |
| 16 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 17 | In short what you should aim to create in a dining room is a special atmosphere within a very practical framework , so when you 've provided for the basics you can add to the mood with window treatments , interesting lighting and decorative tricks to make the room as comfortable , as functional and as good looking as you can . |
| 18 | ‘ So , my dear , ’ Gioella said , ‘ you have fallen for the charms of the most charming man in Florence . ’ |
| 19 | To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 20 | Now while it may be difficult to gainsay the claim that these are the things on which it would be most worth spending time if there was ever no further need to struggle for the basics of human survival and comfort , life seems to be trivialised if culture and personal relations are held up as the be all and end all of what really matters . |
| 21 | Erm t th certainly it makes me really angry that people have to struggle for the basics and I you know I I just do n't see how people who are on long term benefits , erm state benefits , can survive without getting into serious debt . |
| 22 | It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system . |
| 23 | Few attempts have been made to set these earliest of monuments into any sort of context , but stimulating ideas of their contemporary landscapes have been proposed both by Colin Renfrew , who has argued that the tombs belonged to groups and therefore represent ‘ territories ’ , very much as the medieval church related to parish communities , and Graeme Barker and Derrick Webley , who have argued for the inhabitants of causewayed enclosures exploiting a variety of different landscapes , much as Bronze Age and later Iron Age communities did . |
| 24 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |
| 25 | The European Footballer of the Year , who came on as substitute in Holland 's last qualifier against Wales four weeks ago , has been named in the squad and is certain to start the Group Four match as the Dutch seek the point they need to qualify for the finals . |
| 26 | In the rural areas people have to pay for the costs of their halls . |
| 27 | To stand a full chance of winning , contestants have to subscribe for a Readers Digest gardening book which can be paid for by Barclaycard . |
| 28 | Of course , we also need to pray for the needs that others have , as well as for our own needs . |
| 29 | Thérèse said : the Church says we have to pray for the Jews to be converted to the one true faith . |
| 30 | The Branches have to depend upon the voluntary support of the membership to fulfil what many see as their prime role , and where once the polytechnics were able heavily to subsidise a service of CPD seminars or even help run an ‘ in-house ’ programme , they can no longer operate in this way and have to charge for the events on a full cost basis . |