Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 In reaching this conclusion I have not , of course , overlooked the findings in the special case [ that the owners never intended to affirm the agreement for extra payments ] but I do not think that an intention on the part of the owners not to affirm the agreement for the extra payments , not indicated to the yard , can avail them in view of their overt acts .
2 This criterion is intended to signal the need for a healthy scepticism concerning the supposition , embodied in the HMI report The School Curriculum ( 1981 ) , that given equal access to educational resources , the strengths of each child , male or female , would be more fully realized .
3 If it is proposed to borrow the money for the investment , the DCF yield is the highest interest rate the company can pay without making an overall loss .
4 If it is proposed to borrow the money for the investment , the DCF yield is the highest interest rate the company can pay without making an overall loss .
5 They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi .
6 Because several locals had permission to borrow the boat for a spot of fishing , its absence had gone unremarked .
7 IntelliDraw is by far the most interesting drawing package to hit the market for a long time .
8 With almost two weeks still to go the race for the seat is far from over .
9 Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career .
10 As he told Fred Emery on Panorama , ‘ from the moment that decision was taken to cancel the opportunity for a collective judgement to be taken , I knew that something very wrong had happened . ’
11 Lewis 's manager , Frank Maloney , admitted : ‘ We have had to cancel the fight for the time being .
12 We need to preserve the past for the future in as great a variety as possible .
13 An expensive set of particulars was produced to promote the potential for a controversial development within the grounds
14 She knew that she should never have accepted it , she thought , as she knelt on the carpet , placing the mug down beside her and beginning to search the floor for the elusive ring .
15 So and again resource investigator is the person that you pack out to br to gather the information for the rest of the team the vital information for the rest of the team .
16 If delivery with an unfavourable cervix is thought essential it may be better to deliver by elective lower segment caesarean section under epidural block than to risk the need for an emergency caesarean section under general anaesthesia in the middle of the night .
17 As cricket chairman , I was left to carry the can for a move that made no sense and was none of my doing .
18 SIMON TRACEY last night volunteered to carry the can for the double calamity that denied Sheffield United victory over Wimbledon .
19 John Shields , chief executive of Bedford , Massachusetts-based Computervision Corp since 1990 , has been made to carry the can for the company 's disappointing reflotation last summer , and has been fired after losing the confidence of its board of directors .
20 Arsenal 's Paul Merson almost made it three when he connected with a Bull cross a minute before the break , but goalkeeper Adam Mateysek reacted quickly to parry the ball for a corner .
21 However this was a thoroughly misguided way to conduct the case for the FA .
22 I 'd like to I 'd like to thank the panel for the work which they have done on this very difficult issue and , although the convenor has said that it is perhaps a difficult thing to alter the text of such a document on the floor of the house , I think we also have to point out that this is our only opportunity to comment upon this particular draft which will become a definitive draft if passed by the general assembly today .
23 Where the court extends a period at a time when that period has expired and a warrant has been issued , the court is to suspend the warrant for the extended period ; if before the expiration of the extended period the lessee pays into court ( sic ) all the rent arrears and all the costs , the court shall cancel the warrant ( s 138(9) ) .
24 Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town .
25 Equally , almost half had come to see the company for the first time .
26 All three on the other hand , and here Blanche was imagining what Parkin might say in his defence once in the interview room , had a good reason to want to see the blame for the murder transferred to Parkin should they have killed Nicola themselves .
27 It is more a matter of approaching the book 's arguments from within a milieu of relatively academic contemporary art theory and being unable to see the wood for the trees .
28 A succession of avoidable mishaps can so sap morale and resources , that it becomes impossible to see the wood for the trees , and your energy is exhausted reacting to emergencies .
29 possession of detailed knowledge of the issue under negotiation yet able to see the wood for the trees .
30 It is often difficult for people in organisations to see the wood for the trees , and it is very , easy to concentrate on large amounts of internal detail while ignoring important trends in the outside world .
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