Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 2 | The first criticism is that banks in the UK have failed to provide adequately for the needs of industry . |
| 3 | One needs to look directly for the seeds of potential attitudinal positions . |
| 4 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 5 | Yeah I was thinking about , you know , fifteen , twenty pounds a month might be er a reasonable investment to , to put aside for the children . |
| 6 | At the SCG I was impressed with the way the South African pace bowlers tightened line and length after somewhat loose opening period of play no doubt caused by first-time tension and over-eagerness to do well for the folks back home . |
| 7 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |
| 8 | That , as pressure groups , they are free to campaign openly for the changes , Mrs Whitehouse accepted . |
| 9 | You might want to arrive early for the celebrations to allow yourself to catch the annual Dublin Film Festival ( February 28 — March 8 ) . |
| 10 | A general information processing approach which appears to account both for the effects of arousal on task performance and the interaction between arousal and retention interval in the memory literature has been proposed by a number of researchers ( e.g. Broadbent , 1971 ; Hockey , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Christians have also failed to care sufficiently for the victims of the new morality , or to demonstrate a satisfying alternative in positive , healthy family life . |
| 12 | If people think that the exchange rate will fall further , importers will buy now before the rate does fall and they have to pay more for the imports . |
| 13 | Before the justices on that occasion the local authority had proposed that further attempts be made to improve the ability of the mother to care adequately for the children so that their future could be with her . |
| 14 | Whatever the outcome , the government is bound to have to pay dearly for the consequences of a utopian scheme , which , whatever one 's opinion of the welfare system , was one of its most generous and uncritical offshoots . |
| 15 | The main argument for the legitimacy of any authority is that in subjecting himself to it a person is more likely to act successfully for the reasons which apply to him than if he does not subject himself to its authority . |
| 16 | There are always people on this land : a boy sitting on a grazing buffalo , a girl cutting short , dusty grass with a sharp hand-held hoe , filling a basket to take home for the oxen . |
| 17 | Launching the highly successful initiative under which schools are able to bid directly for the resources to become Technology Schools . |