Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having completed the calculations for the potential of a point charge , we shall now investigate a more complicated situation . |
| 2 | Three lessons came from this raid : the need for means to identify friend from foe , always difficult in night actions but particularly so for a small party on a hostile shore ; the problems of coordinating secret operations with regular forces — friendly Spitfires had delayed the boats for an hour in mid-Channel on their outward voyage before establishing their true identity ; the difficulty of pin-point navigation , the third point , was the most crucial of all . |
| 3 | You 'll all be given the instructions for the small group sessions for bail today . |
| 4 | The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video . |
| 5 | Having examined the reasons for the use of the bare infinitive with the modals , it is now possible to deal with infinitival usage with two verbs which function both as modal auxiliaries and as lexical verbs , need and dare . |
| 6 | By the end of it , some members may have forgotten the reasons for the whole idea , so let us recap briefly : there are economies of scale , certainly , though the addition of 6,500 members to 100,000 does not in itself produce any great saving in CIB operating costs ( we used to recruit nearly three times that number of new members from the banks alone in a good year in the 1980s ) ; there is potential recruitment , from more than 60,000 building society employees ; but , above all , the merger demonstrates to the public that two major parts of the much maligned financial services sector are keen to improve their standards , and gives commercial rivals an exceptional opportunity to enjoy the benefits of co-operation in educational endeavour . |
| 7 | She 's forgotten the copies for the directors ! |
| 8 | The only irritation is that Comet Data has n't installed the drivers for the mouse or the graphics card , you have to do this yourself . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Labour MP , Peter Hain has blamed the Conservatives for a series of break-ins to Commons offices of Opposition members . |
| 10 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal held that he had appropriated the goods for the purposes of theft when he showed them the goods and invited them to buy . |
| 12 | Subject to that obligation , the LTE was under a duty to exercise and perform its functions , in accordance with principles laid down or approved by the GLC , in such manner as , and with due regard to efficiency , economy and safety of operation , to provide or secure the provision of such public passenger transport services as best met the needs for the time being of Greater London ( section 5 ) . |
| 13 | When the athletic Can Can girls had done the splits for the umpteenth time , the old master , 83-year-old George Williams , played on the state of his health . |
| 14 | ‘ When I 've done the orders for the ladies , I 'll try out some ideas for a boot for you , all right ? ’ |
| 15 | He was descended ( though not through the male line ) from the family that had built the ships for the old Fowey Gallants of fourteenth-century fame , whose piratical seamen who had dared disobey the Sovereign by plundering Frenchmen and had had their fleet confiscated and sent to Dartmouth for their pains . |
| 16 | After four weeks of aerobic workouts , you have built the foundations for a lifetime 's health and fitness . |
| 17 | Flush from her victory over Austria , Prussia could easily have imposed the terms for the North German Federation on her partners , and indeed proposals were drawn up in 1866 for a union ‘ based on Prussian characteristics ’ . |
| 18 | But none of them , may I say , has fully comprehended the reasons for the attitude France has adopted towards her neighbour . |
| 19 | Speaking of the decision , Vercruysse 's dealer has said the reasons for the withdrawal are not personal . |
| 20 | Many , if not most , good teachers are suffering from fatigue and innovation stress ; almost all teachers in state schools are profoundly resentful at the way that they and their schools have been made the scapegoats for the ills of society . |
| 21 | The husband had made the arrangements for the opening of the joint account to which , subsequently , the loan was debited . |
| 22 | I 've seen the plans for the houses and they 're peculiarly insensitive — more suitable for Milton Keynes . ’ |
| 23 | Erm , have you seen the curves for a capacitor charging up ? |
| 24 | And among those people with confusion , constipation and incontinence , those in residential homes were more likely to have had the symptoms for a year or more . |
| 25 | I am making good progress — slow but sure — and have now graduated on to walking sticks , although I feel very wobbly on these having had the crutches for a month . |
| 26 | Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners . |
| 27 | We we we 've still got the parts for the concerto the guitar concerto , yeah ? |
| 28 | And now the class of ‘ 93 at St Kieran 's have performed the songs for a cassette , sponsored by Suffolk Action Team . |
| 29 | In Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 the Court of Appeal decided that when a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence for murder had not been recommended for release by the local review committee or the Parole Board , before his next review he was not entitled to be told the reasons for the board 's decision . |
| 30 | The global success of football has almost certainly sown the seeds for the game 's corruption . |