Example sentences of "for [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is an increasing tendency nowadays for solicitors to specialise in the work that they do and in the kind of client they advise . |
| 32 | A DUBLIN building society has invested confidence in the national soccer team reaching next year 's World Cup finals in the United States by launching a special account for fans to save for the air fare . |
| 33 | Here there was no need for closure to hover behind the death-rate , or for one mental hospital to be engorged for another to shut . |
| 34 | The evaluators were convinced that the opportunities for schools to benefit from the expertise and efforts of the DCSLs were considerably enhanced by the project . |
| 35 | The education of rational leaders would entail the elimination of church censorship upon freedom of thought — a radical point for Freud to make in the context of Austria , and the strong position held by the Roman Catholic Church in education in that country at that time . |
| 36 | They 're leaving this place in the afternoon and we have another lot coming in , so Stella has arranged for Jean to attend to the chalets and bed changing while she does the barbecue at the end of the rafting . ’ |
| 37 | Most people feel an obligation to keep in contact with their siblings , but beyond that it is regarded as quite proper for relationships to vary in the level of intimacy and the type of support offered ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 ; Allan , 1979 ) . |
| 38 | After more skirmishes , a compromise was reached which allowed for Liesl to stay with the Wynnes until her real mother was able to care for her . |
| 39 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 40 | Figure 6.6b shows us the possible routes for trajectories to pass through the four shaded areas . |
| 41 | He knew all about gossip and calumny , having tried for months to cope with the shifty Hoornik family . |
| 42 | The first meeting would concentrate on users ’ views , with an opportunity for CW to elaborate on the IT Review . |
| 43 | I have thus found the study of pupil deviance a fertile valley for optimism to set beside the forbidding mountain-like permanence of theories of gender reproduction . |
| 44 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 45 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 46 | Analysts say that OS/2 2.0 is reason enough for IBM to advance into the superserver market . |
| 47 | Outside in the gravel forecourt are rustic benches and tables for visitors to sit beside the mill pond , having cream teas on hot summer days . |
| 48 | Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion . |
| 49 | He said that he much preferred the money they could afford for clothing to go onto the boys ' backs , and onto her . |
| 50 | Bob Wilson was so confident that the deal would go through that some weeks before it was even completed he had given authorisation for work to begin at the Boeing factory in Seattle to modify the aircraft to British CAA regulations and finish it in the red and grey Virgin livery . |
| 51 | At the moment facilities for parents to stay in the hospital are makeshift . |
| 52 | It 's a strangely riveting spectacle , but just in case your eyes get poked out in the moshpit , they 've got a quite daring array of slightly goth-laced nagging pop tunes , pinned by means of twiddly guitar hooks and belting choruses to that corner of your brain which is exclusively reserved for tunes to whistle in the supermarket queue . |
| 53 | An appeal by Landsbergis for Lithuanians to come to the defence of parliament was answered by several thousand people who formed a cordon around the building . |
| 54 | Also , before the 1991 Budget , the tax benefit was simply not a big enough incentive , and it has taken time for companies to respond to the new , more generous tax environment . |
| 55 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 56 | In order for plates to behave in the manner proposed the lithosphere of which they are composed must be sufficiently rigid compared with the underlying asthenosphere for stress to be transmitted from one side to the other . |
| 57 | COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm . |
| 58 | The Prime Minister has repeated his plea for Scotland to remain in the United Kingdom warning that independence would lead to bitterness and chaos . |
| 59 | This set up the General Teaching Council for Scotland to deal with the training , registration and professional conduct of Scottish teachers . |
| 60 | But there is a view , which is gaining political support , that suggests that the best way to guarantee a ‘ responsible and representative ’ media , especially with regard to broadcasting , is to remove all regulatory mechanisms altogether : for broadcasting to follow in the footsteps of the ‘ free ’ press . |