Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food what steps his Department is taking on proposals for new EC legislation or regulations on nutritional supplements ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | Go-ahead for Hide to take on Murray for vacant title |
| 3 | And there is no Redundant Churches Fund to take on responsibility for outstanding churches that need to be preserved intact , complete with their furnishings . |
| 4 | Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security . |
| 5 | The bill also lays down provision for detailed news coverage by both Channels 3 and 5 . |
| 6 | UNIONIST MPs rounded on Ulster Secretary Peter Brooke yesterday after he turned down calls for selective internment in the wake of the IRA bomb outrage at Musgrave Park Hospital . |
| 7 | It laid down guidelines for religious instruction . |
| 8 | Of most interest to us , however , are those initiatives particularly concerned with defining and refining educational objectives and with laying down guidelines for curricular policy . |
| 9 | This District Discount will keep down bills for elderly people and many low-income inner-city residents living on large estates . |
| 10 | In the 1920s the owners of large private cellars did not , with the possible exception of vintage port , lay down wine for future consumption as they do now . |
| 11 | ‘ I would turn down ads for foreign foods if I was offered them , ’ added the Scottish-born actor , who owns a Jaguar and a Rolls Royce . |
| 12 | The team , as usual lacking expertise in the particular field , agreed , and laid down criteria for positive discrimination to fight back . |
| 13 | Social services departments take over responsibility for private care next week . |
| 14 | In the mid-1980s the French government did act to try to redress these trend , taking over responsibility for extra hospital services from the local departments . |
| 15 | Shreeves was sacked and Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence took over responsibility for first-team affairs . |
| 16 | Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada and José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera , who had respectively taken over responsibility for foreign affairs and ideology [ not solely Balaguer as given on p. 39089 ] were elected to fill the central committee vacancies . |
| 17 | A great deal of time was spent haggling over prices for specific tasks . |
| 18 | Knowing NASA would have little cash to spare , the committee backed off proposals for new landing craft . |
| 19 | but not to use it by way of fending off calls for central fund money |
| 20 | Until British referees are able to overcome the above faults and also stop sending off players for youthful over-exuberance the French will continue to believe that there is an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy against them . |
| 21 | Banks step up support for new technology |
| 22 | YUGOSLAV jet fighters launched rocket attacks on villages in western Bosnia-Hercegovina yesterday as federal forces appeared to step up support for Serbian militiamen in the ethnic conflict convulsing the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 23 | Christians had been compelled to give up meetings for corporate worship , but still kept up small prayer meetings in houses . |
| 24 | Already the Pentagon is drawing up plans for long-term containment , including the construction of training and recreational facilities for thousands of troops . |
| 25 | Instead the party will set up a top level group to investigate prostitution and draw up plans for new laws . |
| 26 | I knew it was n't healthy or good for me to spend so many hours thinking about eating and cooking up plans for new diets or exercise programmes . |
| 27 | In 1980 the Italian Attiero Spinelli and other parliamentarians founded the ‘ Crocodile Club ’ ( named after a Luxembourg restaurant ) to draw up plans for institutional reform , and in 1981 Parliament established an Institutional Committee with Spinelli as a member . |
| 28 | Confirmation that ministers were drawing up plans for local government and judicial reform was enough to satisfy many . |
| 29 | We will give people a new right of access to open country , create new national parks and step up protection for special sites . |
| 30 | The European Commission has drawn up proposals for compulsory recovery of 90 per cent of all packaging waste . |