Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desperately remote though it seems , this forest has in its time been much worked , beech wood having been prized for making oars for ships and sent off in great quantities to the coast . |
| 2 | Do n't be bullied into making excuses for yourself . |
| 3 | Representing Weymouth ( with his father ) in the Short Parliament ( 1640 ) and Bridport in its successor , as a student of mathematics Strangways was chiefly occupied in counting votes for the nascent Royalist party in the Commons . |
| 4 | Today , FSP/UK , an independent member of a network which includes six South Pacific countries , Australia , Canada and the United States , is committed to finding funds for the Malaria/AIDS programme . |
| 5 | In England any road leading to a port or a market was a royal road , and this indicates that royal interest was not confined to providing roads for the movement and provision of royal armies , but was concerned with trade and markets . |
| 6 | Moreover , this was a new form of imprisonment whose aims were not confined to con-taining offenders for a period and deterring the populace from crime . |
| 7 | Moreover , with the exception of countries such as Japan , Canada and the United States , few public funds were targeted at retraining schemes for this age group . |
| 8 | In the industrial area , good headway is being made with backing fabrics for abrasive cloth and printers ' blankets , while nonwoven uses include floppy disk liners and pads for medical and hygiene products . |
| 9 | That is a matter for future debate , certainly not for today when there is quite enough to be done in preparing colleges for self-governing status and ensuring that they have the support and expertise required to enable them to make a success of that . |
| 10 | Just as forbearance on the part of workers would be asked for when real effort was made in creating jobs for them , so too would the landowners have to contribute , by releasing the land for needed facilities designed for the national good . |
| 11 | What has already been said in discussing metaphors for " God " indicates the need for some specific teaching on the kind of understanding of the word current within world religions . |
| 12 | If suitable provisions ( Clause 19 ) are included in the partnership agreement ( and they are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 7 ) the interests of the firm can be largely protected ( or at any rate damage limited ) : when getting rid of a miscreant partner is likely to be rather easier than dismissing an employee whose thoughts may have turned to taking proceedings for wrongful dismissal . |
| 13 | Cubitt 's greatest savagery was reserved for the ‘ Meeting-House Gallery ’ ’ which he described as ‘ about the crudest attempt ever made at providing seats for a certain number of people over the heads of the rest ’ , a ‘ failure practically , and a horror artistically ’ , ‘ uncouth ’ and a ‘ gigantic misfit ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The church was largely built by selling bricks for sixpence , ’ said Mr Cave . |
| 15 | Hoover concluded that consumer preferences must be met by providing models for national markets that incorporated the specific features market research had brought to light . |
| 16 | The method used for transferring stitches for cable pattern is similar to hand knitting but instead of using a cable needle , we use the transfer tools . |
| 17 | Fifteen people including church workers were arrested on Dec. 1 in connection with an attack on Oct. 30 on the military high command [ see p. 37038 ] , and a US church worker , Jennifer Casolo , was held for 18 days accused of stockpiling weapons for the FMLN , before being released on Dec. 13 under intensive pressure from the USA . |
| 18 | He was accused of distributing leaflets for an outlawed Palestinian organization , the PLFP , which he denies . |
| 19 | After insertion of the tube , anorectal motility was measured under resting conditions for 20 minutes . |
| 20 | The next chapter will discuss financial techniques used in setting criteria for the selection of project proposals to maximize profitability . |
| 21 | There are now two grounds for referring a prospective merger to an investigation by the MMC : ( 1 ) that the merger will promote a new monopoly as defined by the 25 per cent market share used in deciding references for existing monopoly positions , or ( 2 ) that the merger involves the transfer of at least 30 million worth of company assets . |
| 22 | Despite these problems , excessive use of sprays can be avoided by monitoring crops for pests or damage . |
| 23 | ‘ Hey-ey , I 'm sorry Chrissy , shush , shush — ’ He joggled him up and down , but the in-earnest high screams , punctuated with shuddering gasps for breath , continued remorselessly . |
| 24 | Many people have viewed and bought a house in a quiet lane during the summer , only to find , in October , that the lovely field behind the house in fact belongs to a school and is filled with playing children for most of the year . |
| 25 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 26 | The Association of Charity Officers says its members do n't want to get locked into paying fees for care which should be paid for by local authorities . |
| 27 | At an earlier hearing , Mr McKenzie had told the judge that he had been employed in making doors for the transatlantic liner . |
| 28 | Typically , the timetable will be suspended for a week or more and pupils will take responsibility for their own Mini-Enterprise , which may be based on producing goods for sale or providing services . |
| 29 | In any event , as we shall shortly show , this ‘ toxic mix ’ can not always be implicated in causing riots for it is often simply not present in prisons which experience disorder . |
| 30 | On top of Falkenhayn 's natural indecisiveness , the Crown Prince now knew enough of what lay behind his frequent references to ‘ bleeding the French white ’ to suspect that , even once a critical point had been reached in the battle , the C-in-C could not be relied upon to provide replenishments for ‘ heavy sacrifices ’ involved . |