Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offers a detailed assessment of the current situation in its first section , and then goes on to offer options for the future . |
| 2 | Rapid economic development has vastly increased demand for water in recent years , and the expansion is expected to continue : the water needs of the urban population are expected to increase by 45 per cent in the next 20 years , with industry requiring 30 per cent more water and agriculture 14 per cent more . |
| 3 | He said the health authority has since finalised plans for finding the cash to make the unit function as originally intended . |
| 4 | Joe House is President of US-based Network Dynamics , Inc. , a consortium of consultants and seminar leaders with a broad international exposure and has successfully led seminars for more than 5000 adult attendees . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) This House has expressly approved actions for a declaration of nullity as alternative to applications for certiorari to quash , where private law rights were concerned : Wandsworth London Borough Council v. Winder [ 1985 ] A.C. 461 , 477 , per Robert Goff L.J . |
| 6 | While the election has badly dented ratings for television news and current affairs programmes , it has improved Radio 4 audiences , according to BBC figures . |
| 7 | Ottomar de Souza Pinto , a governor of Roraima state , which will lose 45 per cent of its territory to the park , has personally paid bail for the gold-miners jailed under Operation Free Jungle . |
| 8 | Pavilion has hitherto used Bloomsbury for sales representation and DMS-Media Services for distribution . |
| 9 | Catherine Merriman has rightly won laurels for this bitterly perceptive first novel of sex , friendship and power games . |
| 10 | I B M , U K has long established policies for managing its corporate social responsibility , and as I said earlier , applies the same principles to this as to any other business activity . |
| 11 | The network has long established plans for such incidents and says these worked well . |
| 12 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The Chancellor may decide to encourage greater use of diesel : however , he has only limited scope for any price differentiation between DERV and petrol , for since December diesel has actually been 10 pence per gallon more expensive than unleaded petrol . |
| 14 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 15 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 16 | The iconography necessarily shows rather small numbers of dancers ; generally the seals and rings only allow space for three or four figures , but we should assume that we are being shown only the nucleus of a larger religious ceremony . |
| 17 | Belonging to a generation of British artists who make biomorphic compositions , MacIlraith has not made paintings for six years , although he exhibited his drawings with Anthony Brown in 1991 . |
| 18 | It has put in it 's place , a , er a general purposes and finance sub- committee , this is this one referred to , it has not made allowances for who shall serve on it per county , all it did , it called it together very quickly , and to cut costs to authorities , it 's based the meetings in Bristol instead of Exeter , and it was suggested by the chairman of W R A D , that perhaps any volunteers coming onto it , erm , would in fact come from the surrounding counties . |
| 19 | Apart from really dirty hands my family has not used soap for many years and our friends still come to visit us , even the blunt ones who are not slow to call a spade a spade ! |
| 20 | The board has not set goals for Mr Powell 's tenure , but Dr Murphy hinted at a theme . |
| 21 | The Ferrybridge sea power station has not got permission for its 2 GW coal burn . |
| 22 | In fact , Philips recently subsumed EIM into its UK-based Interactive Systems operation and has just announced plans for its own CD-I publishing company . |
| 23 | Polly Peck raised half of the £560million Del Monte Fresh Fruit purchase cost through its three-for-seven rights issue , but it has just paid £69million for control of Sansui . |
| 24 | And a £1 million restoration fund has already raised £400,000 for vital repairs . |
| 25 | The material has already revealed evidence for trepanation , a surgical procedure involving removal of a piece of bone from the skull . |
| 26 | Direct Line Insurance is a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland plc and has already saved money for hundreds of thousands of policy holders who buy direct . |
| 27 | Palo Alto , California-based Legato Systems Inc has agreed to provide its Transport Independent Remote Procedure Call tool kit to Novell Inc in exchange for Novell 's local network Workplace TCP/IP stack — the Novell product will be bundled with Legato 's Networker in its ClientPak II configuration and users with MS-DOS clients on a NetWare local network will be able to do on-demand back-up of MS-DOS and Unix applications by backing them up on a Unix or NetWare server configured with TCP/IP ; IBM has already licensed NetWorker for marketing to its RS/6000 customers . |
| 28 | Sun is said to be going into direct competition with Apple Computer Inc spin-out General Magic Inc and has already licensed designs for its nomadic computer to two Japanese companies , and is in talks with French and German consumer electronics companies . |
| 29 | British Rail has already accepted responsibility for the matter , as the Secretary of State has pointed out . |
| 30 | The fact that the promisor has already received consideration for his promise before he makes it , so far from enabling him to break his promise seems to us to form an additional reason for making him keep it . |