Example sentences of "[subord] [vb -s] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The rules do permit the RTC to give away worthless properties to housing groups to use as shelters for the homeless .
2 Nevertheless , in the fourth century the Franks were also in close contact with the Romans , as allies and as recruits for the imperial forces .
3 A number of principles , notably that of collective responsibility , have been set out as signposts for the continuing evaluation of services for the under-fives .
4 Roads , railways , lakes , rivers , major settlements , chemical storage facilities and political boundaries can be displayed and used as overlays for the various modules that examine the impacts of chemical spills into the atmosphere and river systems .
5 This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event .
6 The problem is , however , that claims for inherent harmony are vulnerable to the same kinds of objection as claims for an inherent conflict .
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