Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 2 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 3 | In the first place , we all need to mourn for our own sins and for the negative contribution we bring into the world . |
| 4 | So an urgent appeal is being launched in Britain and in other countries asking people to search for their old slide-rules in attics , in schools and in lab store rooms . |
| 5 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 6 | You might also use it to reduce your overdraft , to achieve discounts for early payment or simply to enjoy for your personal requirements . |
| 7 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 8 | Just as the Central Swiss communities around the Vierwaldstattersee had to struggle for their independent rights against the Austrian Hapsburgs , their confederates to the west of Bern had to confront the might of the Burgundian realm . |
| 9 | ‘ If I tell — they will kill Liam and point out that he 's had to suffer for my stubborn principles . |
| 10 | However , without exception , all the women had to make some economies because their wages had been an essential part of the household economy and their benefits were too low to compensate for their lost earnings . |
| 11 | The inner-city schools are most likely to have larger numbers of Afro-Caribbean and Asian pupils , and the education system is failing to provide for their special needs because of underfunding . |
| 12 | State welfare services supplement the efforts of individuals and families to provide for their own needs . |
| 13 | Many still felt that the chief need was for full employment and adequate pay , which would enable the working class to provide for their own needs and to retain their independence of state control ; though they were prepared to accept immediate state help for those whose needs could not be met in this way , such as the aged . |
| 14 | In principle we accept that people should be helped to provide for their own needs in old age by contributing throughout their working life to a pension scheme . |
| 15 | Is the first aim to make money ( we must obviously avoid losing it ! ) or to provide for our personal needs ? |
| 16 | Here was a character , like his Uncle Harry , who offered a way of life quite different from the one Mr Thomas hoped to provide for his six sons . |
| 17 | Sometimes " super " secret agents use two letters to stand for their proper numbers . |
| 18 | After all , he 's old enough to answer for his own actions . |
| 19 | This so incensed William Courtenay , the Bishop of London , that he summoned John Wycliffe , whom Gaunt had used to stir up public opinion against Wykeham , to St Paul 's to answer for his erroneous teachings . |
| 20 | Bursting from the stalls , The Fernhill Flyer was soon clear , and should provide another excuse to celebrate for her first-time owners , a syndicate of drinking companions from the Fernhill public house at Preesall , near Blackpool . |
| 21 | That was probably true , she realised , scrambling away from him to reach for her discarded clothes . |
| 22 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |
| 23 | As with all visitors to such events I decided , first to look for my old pals Brucie and Tarby , the funniest men in golf . |
| 24 | Are there any places you want to praise for their special facilities ? |
| 25 | There was a cash adjustment in Coventry 's favour and both players are expected to play for their new clubs tonight . |
| 26 | His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities . |
| 27 | Of more immediate concern to governments and , it seemed , likely to produce much quicker and more clearly identifiable results , were the growing efforts which many of them were now making to use for their own purposes the new or greatly strengthened force of the newspaper press . |
| 28 | The lender gives you some of its money to use for your own purposes — but in return you pay interest on the loan . |
| 29 | Now the uncertainty has been lifted , hundreds of hospitals will seek self-governing status while more family doctors are expected to opt for their own budgets — although Mr Major reaffirmed yesterday that he would continue to cherish and build up the NHS . |
| 30 | In this case a solution was at hand , although it helped the teacher rather more than the children : it was to neglect those children working in curriculum areas perceived to be relatively unimportant ( such as art and topic work ) , to devise for them low-level activities which could be tackled with minimal teacher intervention , and to focus attention on those children who demanded it . |