Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 2 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 3 | The deal means the French bank will get some of the money it is owed , Madagascar will get debt relief and the Missouri garden will be able to increase its efforts to conserve rare plants , which include training botanists and collecting plants to screen them for medicinal value . |
| 4 | If an item is coached carefully step by step in the early stages the performers are more likely to remember it for future use . |
| 5 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 6 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 7 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 8 | of the two wooden chairs at the kitchen table and looked rather helplessly at the card with its seven clearly written digits , then glanced round as if seeking inspiration where to put it for safe keeping . |
| 9 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 10 | Also , blotting paper is fairly costly to buy so it is much more economical to use it for pressing time and time again . |
| 11 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 12 | ‘ We should look to the Holy Spirit to guide us for good news . |
| 13 | DeLong 's own studies in primates , in which he damaged nerves leading from the nucleus basalis of Meynert to widespread regions of the cortex and then tried to use food to reward them for particular behaviour , suggested that the region may play an important role in learning . |
| 14 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 15 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 16 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 17 | ‘ They are so well rewarded it 's hard to motivate them for international football . |
| 18 | Are suitable writing materials easily available if the children are likely to need them for reflective work ? |
| 19 | There is a rent review due next year , and I think they will be quite likely to ask you for additional rent , erm amount of rent per annum to you . |
| 20 | So , to take one illustration from the law reports , if you are the company 's assistant accountant , it could be unfair to dismiss you for alleged lack of management ability if that has no real bearing on your daily tasks . |
| 21 | The compensatory award is intended to reimburse you for financial loss resulting from the unfair dismissal . |
| 22 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 23 | The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony . |
| 24 | And if this 6Mb does exist , would it be possible to recover it for general use ? |
| 25 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 26 | As these wheels are going to take the weight of the entire model , it is best to pin them for extra strength . |
| 27 | The other element related to control of the mind where through meditation or chanting the practitioner seeks to free his soul from the bondage of his mind and body and to prepare himself for spiritual enlightenment or true self-realisation — that he is in fact part of the ‘ Impersonal Absolute ’ ( Brahman ) . |
| 28 | The ruling was made in the case of Jairo Jonathan Elias Zacarias who had fled from Guatemala in 1987 after guerrillas had attempted forcibly to recruit him for military service . |
| 29 | When you open the file , a file handle ( an integer number ) is returned by the interpreter and you will need to store it for future use . |