Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we can tie up this lending for house purchase with the personal sector 's purchase of ‘ real ’ capital goods in column 8/line 3 . |
| 2 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 3 | Gookey , 21 , has made rapid progress at 200 metres this year but will line up second favourite for that event and for the 100 metres , which he won last year , if Sale 's European junior champion attempts a sprint double at Blackpool . |
| 4 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 5 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 6 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 7 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 8 | A solicitor employed by a non-lawyer may not carry out professional work for any person other than his employer ( ie working directly with the employer 's clients is not permitted ) but may act for a company or other organisation controlled by the employer or over which the employer has substantial control or for a company in the same group as the employer or which controls the employer . |
| 9 | It will carry out commercial work for example using the Dounreay Fuel Plants only if doing so uses facilities important for the government work and also reduces the net cost to Government . |
| 10 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 11 | Can you work up any sympathy for them ? |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't think you could keep up such softness for long . |
| 13 | They can not keep up this luminosity for long , however , and they should have burnt out long ago . |
| 14 | Following his departure , will take on overall responsibility for the management of Courtaulds Health Environment and Safety Services ( CHESS ) . |
| 15 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 16 | With the advent of delegated management responsibility to schools and the use of internal evaluation processes , schools could take on more responsibility for the distribution of resources . |
| 17 | We lack systematic knowledge of the circumstances under which grandchildren might take on significant responsibility for the support ( either personal or financial ) for their grandparents in contemporary Britain . |
| 18 | Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you . |
| 19 | From 1 April the DoT will take over direct responsibility for the major repair work of inspecting the underside of the viaducts , where important structural defects have appeared . |
| 20 | So we might go down that weekend for Rachel and then after Christmas |
| 21 | Charity knew she was n't going to look gorgeous no matter what she did , and deciding she needed all the help she could get to lure in those tips that might hold off personal bankruptcy for three months , she had purchased the skirt and shirt — with six other summery , playful outfits that she would probably never be able to wear again as long as she lived . |
| 22 | And I 'm giving you this ultimatum : tomorrow night I come into this bed and if you try to stop me , you 'll end up next door for the remainder of your days . ’ |
| 23 | These precedents do not hold out great hope for private prosecutors determined to teach their critics a lesson in the criminal courts . |
| 24 | They was heading off to London that night to go and pick up this griddle for this |
| 25 | Do n't stop or pick up another fare for at least another five blocks after you drop me . |
| 26 | As for the fans , I can summon up little sympathy for dinner-jacketed men who sit around tables with their belts bulging while boxers spatter their tuxedo with blood as a cabaret act . |
| 27 | ‘ It will open up new land for development along its length and remove traffic from Haughton village , it 's a multi-purpose route . |