Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] for [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 But as her husband 's health declined she took on responsibility for maintaining the farm and orchard which was the family 's main source of income .
2 ‘ This is an exciting and challenging time to take on responsibility for leading the firm , ’ Mr Freedman said .
3 The tour set for twelve to eighteen months starting in summer 1993 and sales of a catalogue with colour reproductions of Barnes works , are expected to bring in funds for renovating the foundation 's gallery building and bringing its operations up to modern standards .
4 The County Council , faced with making savings of around £2 million in its social services budget , is considering bringing in charges for using the centres .
5 Where accommodation is provided for a child ordinarily resident in the area of another local authority , the home authority may take over responsibility for accommodating the child within three months of receiving written notification of the situation ( s20(2) ) .
6 The risk of the Kantineservice decision is that , although there is no true transfer of an undertaking when the franchisor is changed , the person acquiring the franchise may be seen as taking over responsibility for running the undertaking and will normally retain the original employees .
7 The faster US troops can turn over responsibility for keeping the peace to Panamanian forces , officials said , the better the US invasion would look to Latin Americans .
8 There is a meeting of the Police Committee on Monday and there is an item on their budget for the provision of the camera and of the back up support for processing the offenders as part of their budget proposals and they will be considering that on Monday .
9 Demands for the NEC to draw up proposals for widening the party franchise were led by John Edmonds , general secretary of the GMB .
10 NATO ministers promised humanitarian aid , and drew up guidelines for recognising the independence of the former Soviet republics .
11 Dad picks up £76,324 for running the country .
12 This weekend 's meeting is the latest in a series of conferences over the past two weeks during which ministers , their advisers , vice-chancellors , polytechnic directors and senior officials have been thrashing out strategies for expanding the higher education system .
13 Without entering into the substantive details of the agreement or of the 1990 convention for its application , which appears not yet to have entered into force , it may be noted that it sets out rules for crossing the signatory states ' frontiers not just for their own citizens but also for citizens of all EC Member States , and the Convention of Application distinguishes between treatment at the internal and external borders of the signatory states .
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