Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University Labour Federation had been allowed to carry on active propaganda for Unity after being threatened with disaffiliation . |
| 2 | An inability to work up any enthusiasm for an Everton attack . |
| 3 | We 're trying to work up some passion for the pageant . |
| 4 | If the Revenue is unwilling to publish an annual list , the only practicable alternative is to base the charge on the cost of the car , since it would be burdensome to expect employers to work out this information for themselves . |
| 5 | The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 6 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , I 'm trying to sort out some transport for a couple of guests . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be wrong to rule out military action for all time . ’ |
| 9 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 10 | The Government are not prepared to set out any timetable for reaching that limit . |
| 11 | Please try to fill in this form for all titles you are responsible for and use this as an exercise to test its viability before we have Phil do something more elegant . |
| 12 | ‘ Space is always available at airports for commercial operations such as shops and bars , but the authorities are not prepared to give up some space for security . ’ |
| 13 | Children involved in preparing for meal-times will need to put out one mug for each child and may rely on one-to-one correspondence without counting . |
| 14 | With the help of recipe maker you will be able to plan out each meal for an entire week and in just minutes have a complete shopping list needed to make those meals . |
| 15 | If a member of a committee receives a letter asking him to carry out some job for the committee between meetings , he must feed back the information that he will do this and , when he has done it , the information that he has done it . |
| 16 | They imported artists and artisans from Greece to carry out this work for them and to ornament their buildings ; they also imported actual sculpture from Greece for the same purpose . |
| 17 | Again there is a need for a clear partnership between the school and the LEA with schools and colleges having to carry out first-line responsibility for quality assurance . |
| 18 | And er I 've got to go back next week for a sort of check up and I mean I suppose that 'll continue for weeks to come . |
| 19 | Virgilio Avila Vivas replaced Alejandro Izaguirre Angeli as Minister of the Interior , an appointment seen as a move to build up political support for the efforts of the security forces to deal with increasing protests against the government 's economic policies [ but see below for his replacement ; for November 1991 protests , see p. 35571 ] . |
| 20 | I meant to phone up this morning for an appointment for Doctor , but I forgot all about it . |
| 21 | Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz said that an agency for privatization would be created and that he would ask the Sejm to create a special commission to speed up legislative approval for the programme . |
| 22 | The early development of the Partnership concept appeared to hold out little encouragement for the non-statutory sector . |
| 23 | For the 23-year-old Liverpool woman had to beat off strong competition for the post from dozens of other candidates from around the world . |
| 24 | The firm is part of a consortium trying to beat off global competition for the Hong Kong airport deal which is worth three times as much as the channel tunnel . |
| 25 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 26 | Her Department should act on the recommendation that local officers should be able to top up that gap for claimants if no other resources are available . |
| 27 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 28 | I will have to think up some excitement for you , señorita . ’ |
| 29 | The financial sector welcomed the changes while employers complained that they had to pay out more money for no increase in productivity . |
| 30 | As the Men carried Minch away Creggan looked desperately about him as if to seek out some inspiration for the action and sign of hope that her final words had seemed to wish to invoke . |