Example sentences of "and [verb] for [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company 's doctor was on the spot in no time , attended the patients , examined the sanitary arrangements , disinfected and closed the station well , and arranged for tanks of pure water to be conveyed from 62 miles away . |
| 2 | I see from my files that Simon Murison-Bowie sent you two copies of the Agreement for this tape which required signing on behalf of the University of Toronto and return to us , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements in his letter of 19 February . |
| 3 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 4 | It was Don who made the effort ; he bought the local paper and looked at ads for houses ; he phoned estate agents and asked for lists of properties . |
| 5 | The community care reforms will produce a new kind of key worker who will organise and budget for packages of care : the care manager . |
| 6 | A cervical smear may be taken , which is specially stained in the laboratory ( the Papanicolaou smear ) and examined for evidence of early cancer of the cervix . |
| 7 | Ships flying the Greek flag make up the world 's third-biggest merchant fleet , after Liberia 's and Panama 's ( having recently beaten an uppity Japan back into fourth place ) , and account for 40% of the European Community 's total tonnage . |
| 8 | Philip of Swabia had restored the title of king to Ottokar , duke of Bohemia , a fief of the German empire , on his eastern borders , but Ottokar was persuaded by Innocent to desert Philip and declare for Otto of Brunswick . |
| 9 | There is serious doubt about whether Italy can achieve the norms laid down by the Maastricht Treaty , and qualify for membership of the European Community single market next year and full monetary union by 1997 or later . |
| 10 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 11 | More recently , social policy in this country has been informed by political economy — that tradition , primarily but not exclusively derived from Marxism , which identifies the ideological character of disciplinary boundaries and looks for explanations of the nature of social structure and social process in terms of the character of the dominant mode of production ( see Gough , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 13 | In summary , any reforms to the system of ministerial patronage should aim to reduce secrecy , encourage competition , control the power of ministers , introduce accountability for appointments made , and provide for assessment of performance . |
| 14 | It is possible for example to vary the internal geometry of the factory and thereby alter the nature of the labour process and provide for rotation of job functions . |
| 15 | Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 16 | In the same period , Arthur Young , subsidized by the big landlords to promote agricultural improvement , put his finger on what must have been a general attitude , when he described cattle-stealers in the Lincolnshire fens : ‘ So wild a country nurses up a race of people as wild as the fen , and thus the morals and eternal welfare of numbers are hazarded and ruined for want of an inclosure . ’ |
| 17 | The endowment mortgage has become the most common form of loan , where life assurance protection and saving for repayment of the mortgage are conveniently combined . |
| 18 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 19 | But within the Labour Party Ernest Bevin , Walter Citrine and Hugh Dalton began to urge rearmament against Germany and support for League of Nations sanctions against Italy for its invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 . |
| 20 | Following on from the spread on pages two and three , IBM Corp did announce its first Pentium-based machine yesterday , the PS/2 Server 95 560 , which has a 60MHz processor , and support for 128Mb of main memory — the processor board can also be used to give existing PS/2 Model 90 and 95 machines a full Pentium upgrade ; the company also announced a 1Gb SCSI-2 disk which expands internal storage to 9Gb . |
| 21 | Cover is in respect of the Insured 's Legal Liability and will therefore include negligent breakdown and cover for loss of hiring charges payable to the owner of the plant . |
| 22 | Peirce had set himself the task of methodically classifying , and looking for applications of , the n-dimensional systems for all |
| 23 | Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept . |
| 24 | It came in a stone mug , deliciously cold and wiping out in one mouthful the heat of the morning and the traces of last night 's headache ( he wondered briefly how the Engineer regiment was getting on in its battle positions ; by now they should be dug in and pausing for sips of lukewarm water or barely warmer tea . |
| 25 | Selected surfaces of six teeth were examined and scored for extent of debris and calculus . |
| 26 | there are some brief notes on materials and equipment before we are urged to make a start by considering perspective and look for blocks of light and shade and the elements of geometry and symmetry . |
| 27 | Watch raindrops falling into puddles and look for circles of various sizes . |
| 28 | Identify the purchaser 's difficulties and constraints and look for methods of overcoming these . |
| 29 | Blood , for instance , decides in the case of certain army posts , whose incumbents hold them by virtue of family connections , nepotism or favouritism ; but gold gets its due through the circumstance that all army commissions can be bought and sold for coin of the realm ’ ( Marx 1953 ) . |
| 30 | Indeed much of his life was spent creating and caring for families of one kind or another . |