Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [det] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After the Second World War there was a strong export trade of beef cattle to Argentina and the Argentinian cattlemen showed a marked preference for smaller , blockier British beef bulls at the annual sales in Britain in order to meet their own requirements for exports to Europe . |
| 2 | Further even that this , although it is not possible for knitters to write their own programs for Form , there are programs that lend themselves to a great deal of adaptation and change that can be used to knit almost any type of garment . |
| 3 | The authority will be able to direct resources to meet its own priorities for service development . |
| 4 | Have you heard the one about the EastEnders stars who are forced to provide their own fags for smoking scenes ? |
| 5 | … We 've jilted them and eliminated them and we 've got to find our own solutions for our own peculiar moral problems … |
| 6 | And there would certainly be no commercial benefits if Anglo-Welsh were to substitute their own products for those of Palatine . |
| 7 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 8 | Turning to go back to her own house to oversee her own arrangements for departure , she realised how little good the summer had done Mrs Browning . |
| 9 | China , whilst approving the airport plan in principle , had been insistent that it should be able to set its own terms for the size and financing of the project . |
| 10 | The memorandum was widely seen as a victory for the Chinese side in the negotiations , with the UK effectively agreeing to Chinese demands that it should be able to set its own terms for the size and financing of the project . |
| 11 | He believes that each company needs to set its own targets for being a good corporate citizen , which can range from how much money should be donated to charities to making senior executives available for secondment to advise small businesses . |
| 12 | Land would remain state-owned and might not be bought or sold , but inheritance rights over land would be guaranteed and peasants would be free to set their own prices for their produce . |
| 13 | The South Eastern Electricity Board ( Seeboard ) is developing an ‘ intelligent plug ’ which allows consumers to set their own priorities for their various appliances . |
| 14 | Following its fellow Motorola Inc 88000 travellers , Dolphin Server Technology AS ( UX No 376 ) and Harris Corp 's computer division ( UX No 380 ) , Data General Corp — which admits to having chewed the fat over alternative RISCs , but has decided to stick with the 88000 series ( UX No 376 ) — is expected to announce its own plans for systems based upon the next generation 88110 shortly , likely to include a complete re-haul of its existing AViiON workstation and server series . |
| 15 | Children are often asked to use their own bodies for counting and corresponding . |
| 16 | In such circumstances , they were reluctant to abandon their own positions for a possibly lesser place in a new party in which Ian Paisley would play a major part . |
| 17 | Now , ask the child to invent their own signals for stop , go , left and right ( this does n't work with a straw bale ) . |
| 18 | Will many schools decide to devise their own procedures for dealing with these ? |
| 19 | But the measure seems certain to be killed off later in its parliamentary passage as ministers are planning to publish their own proposals for greater openness in government this summer . |
| 20 | In fact , the chances are you 'll have to go back and pare down your heroes to give you enough points for Shamans . |
| 21 | The " Islamist " leader Shaikh Abd al-Hamid Zaydani in mid-April 1990 challenged the YSP leadership to a televised debate , and was in turn challenged to publish his own proposals for unified state before such a debate took place . |
| 22 | There is also a ‘ Stop and Check ’ revision section in the Workbook after every third unit to allow students to review what they have been doing in class and to decide their own priorities for future self-study . |
| 23 | The firm did not seek a costs order against Mrs Luxmoore-May , but she will have to pay her own costs for the original hearing and appeal . |
| 24 | Faye as Prefect-Apostolic of Ziguinchor , Senegal , brings Africa into line with India , China and Japan , who have each been able to boast their own bishops for some years . |
| 25 | This proposal implied a Soviet preparedness to offer its own facilities for inspection . |
| 26 | The miners ' strike revealed the range of new movements and organisations which have been arenas , if complex and contradictory , for the development of working-class culture and working-class consciousness , promising to broaden traditional conceptions of the composition and objectives of the labour movement yet also portraying the unions ' capacity to ignore that potential when it stepped beyond the domestic and controllable to stake its own claims for recognition . |
| 27 | Moreover , the scope for advertising is limited , as they are prohibited by the Companies Act to advertise their own shares for sale ( as are all quoted companies ) . |
| 28 | In accordance with allowance for departmental variations , each department was left to formulate its own plans for implementing the FMI ( see Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 and Progress in Financial Management in Government Departments , 1984 ) , producing a variety of patterns of implementation . |
| 29 | The feminist arguments in favour of dialogic forms of language use helped her to clarify her own reasons for employing discursive metaphor and parody , and the gendering by feminists of the notion of the ‘ bad copy ’ enabled her to incorporate her own techniques of mis-representation into a readily recognizable social context . |
| 30 | She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit . |