Example sentences of "[to-vb] money for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday I received a circular from a building society urging me , a valued customer , to borrow money for the purpose of investing in the development of a feature film called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle The Lambada Pantie Karaoke Tricksters . |
| 2 | He managed to increase the staff in two ways ; first by getting the endowment for the chair of Greek freed from the attachment to a canonry and then the endowment of the canonry used to give a second professorship of theology ; secondly by persuading the vice-chancellor to find money for a lectureship in New Testament studies . |
| 3 | Let's face it , when you work hard all year round to save money for a couple of weeks in the sunshine , you deserve to enjoy yourself . |
| 4 | On Saturday nights throughout the year he had organised country and western music evenings to raise money for a variety of worthwhile causes . |
| 5 | Both races will be included in ITV 's 24-hour Telethon extravaganza , which aims to raise money for a number of charities . |
| 6 | The present lord carried on the tradition , helping to raise money for the work with a big concert at which the Queen Mother was a special guest . |
| 7 | The disinherited lords themselves were ruined by Edward Balliol 's failure to hold his kingdom : Gilbert de Umfraville , for example , titular Earl of Angus , had had to mortgage a number of his manors to raise money for the invasion of Scotland and he never recovered from the collapse of his cause . |
| 8 | The former Olympic hero , now MP for Falmouth and Camborne , will run to raise money for the charity of which he is chairman , ADT Healthquest . |
| 9 | In 1810 the Factory bought the piece of land and opened a fund to raise money for the building of a church . |
| 10 | The organisers are planning a ‘ model hot air balloon competition ’ and are asking entrants to get their entries sponsored to raise money for the development of water supplies in Third World villages . |
| 11 | When the king next had to raise money for the duchy of Normandy in 1096 , he seems to have been satisfied with Anselm 's offer : at least we hear no complaint . |
| 12 | THE Cathedral bells rang out to celebrate the safe return of three cyclists who had completed a marathon trip from St Peter 's Rome , to St Peter 's , Lancaster , in order to raise money for the restoration of the bells . |
| 13 | The Methodist chapel stands on the site of an 1815 building , and there is at present a vigorous campaign to raise money for the restoration of the church . |
| 14 | Dr Duncan Macmillan said he was supporting the university 's proposals to sell either a 16th-century bronze , Cain and Abel by de Vries , or a 17th-century landscape , The Banks of a River by van Ruisdael , because of a desperate need to raise money for the care of the remainder of the collection . |
| 15 | The pressure group Lynx has just 14 days to raise money for an appeal against £40,000 damages . |
| 16 | Vietnam had withdrawn from the organization in 1985 [ see p. 34651 ] following allegations first made in 1981 that thousands of Vietnamese had been sent to work in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to earn money for the repayment of Vietnamese government debts [ see pp. 31592-93 ; 32675 ] . |
| 17 | The satire " Novus regnat Salomon " attacks Innocent as the mercenary shepherd who abandons his flock to the wolf and sees " Salomon " as venal , loving not persons but their goods , and the poet Walter von der Vogelweide portrays Innocent as filling his chests with German silver and deplores his efforts to collect money for a crusade against the Albigensians . |
| 18 | My father 's way of showing his gratitude was to collect money for the Fund on Wings Day which commemorates the Battle of Britain . |