Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 2 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 3 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 4 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 5 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 6 | The soundtrack is industrial dance , the punters the kind of alternative/college crowd who presumably are about to go for The Shamen in a big way . |
| 7 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 8 | A US military team arrived in Phnom Penh on July 24 to search for the bodies of US servicemen missing in action ( MIA ) in Cambodia after the Vietnam war . |
| 9 | However , if the Institute is going to plan for the needs of 2001 AD , the whole idea of space occupied by books may need to be revised . |
| 10 | It was obvious that Bonard had been to considerable trouble to arrange for the members of his class to meet people with similar interests to their own . |
| 11 | I have , therefore , been asked to repeat my request of 3 July asking you to arrange for the hedges to be trimmed as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Now while it may be difficult to gainsay the claim that these are the things on which it would be most worth spending time if there was ever no further need to struggle for the basics of human survival and comfort , life seems to be trivialised if culture and personal relations are held up as the be all and end all of what really matters . |
| 13 | So while the practice of resignation has been re-established , it is still true that ministers are not expected to suffer for the shortcomings of their staff . |
| 14 | Clause four declared that the objective of the party was ‘ to secure for the producers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry , and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible , upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry and service ’ . |
| 15 | If the relationship between mother and daughter is poor , a good relationship may be ‘ invented ’ to compensate for the shortcomings of that relationship . |
| 16 | For the Germans in Prague , gloating over the latest humilation for the East Berlin leadership on the eve of its birthday party seemed to compensate for the conditions of near-vagrancy . |
| 17 | " Le nord de l'Angleterre , c'est L'Ecosse , " said the man , flashing his even teeth at her , showing them as though to compensate for the deficiencies of his wit . |
| 18 | It goes on : ’ ( 2 ) The CAP negotiations must build on reasonably broad agreement on the principle of resource withdrawal in the shape of arable set-aside. ( 3 ) The negotiations must also develop constructively the common thread of agreement on the environment , and on the need for permanent measures to compensate for the disadvantages of farming in Less Favoured Areas . |
| 19 | Approximately 40 per cent of plantation forest is in the developed world , a further 50 per cent is in the Communist Bloc especially in China ( section 7.2.1 ) while the remainder is in the developing world , though the rate of planting is not sufficient to compensate for the rates of deforestation . |
| 20 | The growth of coastal shipping to compensate for the inadequacies of land transport encouraged the further development of ports such as Sakai , near Osaka . |
| 21 | The main 10-band EQ system ( plus two further sliders for input gain and volume ) is augmented by a smaller , manually-adjusted 7-band ‘ acoustic correction ’ system which allows you to compensate for the acoustics of each gig , without having to go back into your preset program — positive thinking on the part of Decimax . |
| 22 | H-M had a hefty policy with General Disaster to provide for the dependents of those lost or handicapped in the service of the Agency . |
| 23 | For writers like Altvater , Muller and Neususs , Holloway and Picciotto , Hirsch , Offe , and Gerstenberger , while the role of the state is limited by the laws of capital accumulation ( the state can only redistribute wealth once profits have been made ) and the imperatives of capital that must be maintained , the role of the state in modern capitalism is not to defend the interests of a ruling class on every specific but to provide for the interests of capital ‘ in general ’ . |
| 24 | Some of the churches attempted to provide for the needs of their members by maintaining small libraries . |
| 25 | After considering updating the old parish church the decision was made to provide for the needs of the 21st century , building a church large enough for both the old St Peter & St Paul church and St George 's , Kettlethorpe . |
| 26 | He resigned from the Temple ; and to provide for the needs of his rapidly increasing family he was appointed as Rector of Boscom and prebendary of Salisbury , with the apparent understanding that he would continue to reside mainly in London , where he could find the books which he required for his great work , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity . |
| 27 | It is not anyone 's wish to reduce the overall level of money available to provide for the needs of people with dementia . |
| 28 | We 've struggled to establish financial security so as to provide for the needs of our families and communities . |
| 29 | It also noted , however , that the facilities presently available are inadequate to provide for the patients of all ages who could benefit from these procedures . |
| 30 | I am satisfied that the plaintiff is in a state where it is reasonably necessary to provide for the costs of setting up and maintaining a trust to handle the plaintiff 's financial interests over the years ahead . |