Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Save the horses ! ’ , as the chief splashed across the creek to gather mounts for the fleeing families . |
| 2 | Mr Wigley said the company 's banking facilties are sufficient to support activities for the forseeable future while it strives to reduce debt further until rental and retail income covers interest costs and overheads . |
| 3 | The COPEI and the MAS on Feb. 24 declined Pérez 's request to the secretaries-general of all main opposition parties to join a " political cabinet " of ministers without portfolio to draft policies for the next two years of government . |
| 4 | It has refused to support proposals for a new draft directive , which would specify that waste be treated as any other commodity , and thereby allowed unrestricted movement . |
| 5 | wants to see plans for the modified programme in early June , and a first draft is expected by mid-May . |
| 6 | Professionally Ambache will also continue to support demands for a social workers ' council . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what he is doing to promote opportunities for the British oil industry in winning orders and contracts overseas . |
| 8 | However large or small your business operation , whether you manufacture goods or provide a service , there may be times when you need to borrow funds for the day-to-day financing of your working capital or to tide you over an unexpected cash flow problem . |
| 9 | It has just announced special tools which will allow developers to write products for the unlaunched Windows NT which can run immediately on the new Windows 3.1 . |
| 10 | Before the Garden invests further in computer equipment , cabling , and other IT equipment , the Computer Management Group is to advise Management on our existing IT situation , and to provide plans for the logical development of computing and other IT facilities . |
| 11 | He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment . |
| 12 | In 1651 , the Rump Parliament debated a suggestion that all twenty-six should be demolished and their stonework and furnishings sold to provide funds for the poor . |
| 13 | As it turned out , the time zone advantage was insufficient to compensate traders for the higher cost of doing business in LIFFE 's less liquid markets , so the bulk of the global business has thus remained in the USA . |
| 14 | A forum to establish guidelines for a national statistics council is being organised by Ian Maclean , secretary of the Statistics Users ' Council . |
| 15 | Yet a number of head teachers believe that reluctance on the part of some LEAs at present to prosecute parents for the poor school attendance of their children is contributing significantly to high levels of truancy . |
| 16 | This comparative study of five representative prisons for adult males in one region of the prison system , seeks to provide benchmarks for the 1980's as to how far humane containment is achieved in the context of maintaining security and control . |
| 17 | Paratroopers ( from the left ) Alex Poole , Eric Sekwalor , John Sowerby and Sean Ollsson came third in the four-man push competition organised by the British Bobsleigh Association to find crews for the new season . |
| 18 | It was not always easy for a private householder to find buyers for a large number of packets of soap ! |
| 19 | MCI Communications Corp reports that the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago awarded it a 10-year multi-million dollar contract to provide circuits for the new FedNet communications system will combine the networks of 12 Federal Reserve district banks and three new centres into one network ; FedNet will offer the banks high speed data services and is responsible for circuit installation and maintenance . |
| 20 | Many more farmers would be willing to undertake conversion if the Government were prepared to provide subsidies for the first five years to help re-equip . |
| 21 | On the other hand , we now may be able to provide explanations for the measured values of some quantities like the cosmological constant . |
| 22 | By failing to provide stories for a significant proportion of the population , are they not digging themselves a grave ? |
| 23 | He approved of Clarkson 's travels to secure witnesses for the Privy Council hearings but not as a focus for popular agitation . |
| 24 | Mr Browne told The Scotsman last night that the ending of PRT on new fields could help in efforts to establish prospects for a commercial development in the area . |
| 25 | Asking the children to write advertisements for a new teacher provides valuable insights into children 's values : kind , not too strict , gives interesting lessons , does n't shout , all seem to appear frequently in children 's specifications . |
| 26 | The take-home pay of the young will have to be substantially reduced to provide pensions for the increased numbers of elderly . |
| 27 | He has consistently refused calls to military service because his religious beliefs forbid him to bear arms for a secular power or swear on oath of military allegiance . |
| 28 | Direct trade with Africa was comparatively small , although the export of trade goods and guns to secure slaves for the New World plantations expanded rapidly after 1780 . |
| 29 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 30 | ’ Can pay , wo n't pay ’ is shorthand : written out in full , their credo was , ’ We have the money to make our proper contribution to the cost of essential local services , but , because we wish to indulge in political point-scoring , we will withhold that contribution — knowing full well that by doing so we will force local authorities either to increase charges for the great majority of law-abiding citizens , or to cut services . ’ |