Example sentences of "for [noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 2 | Maurin could bustle Barbara Coleman off to Nice against her will , but he would also go shopping for tablets to replace the forgotten ones . |
| 3 | The remaining sections contain a wealth of ideas and suggestions for activities to develop the four skills , grammar , vocabulary , and social language . |
| 4 | This will obviate the need for cyclists to negotiate the two roundabouts . |
| 5 | Traditionally this was the time for artists to add the final touches . |
| 6 | It was planted for generations to supply the strong bows for archers but now appears to have a new role as a protector — in the fight against cancer . |
| 7 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 8 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 9 | Bukharin and his associates used Rosa and Ernst Meyer 's hotel room in Moscow for meetings to discuss the mounting struggle inside the Bolshevik Party , meetings at which they ridiculed the ever higher figures being propounded for the drafts of the First Five Year Plan . |
| 10 | While the UK and the USA reportedly expressed support for plans to transform the nine-member Paris-based Western European Union ( WEU ) [ see p. 37212 ] into the basis of a cohesive European defence pillar for NATO , other member states , notably France , Germany and Italy , saw the WEU as evolving into a genuine European security and defence policy . |
| 11 | The Cluanie Inn is a fine hotel in a splendid old building , which has been extended in recent years so sensitively , soon it will be difficult for passers-by to tell the old from the new . |
| 12 | It is for schools to embrace the same approach for disruptive pupils . |
| 13 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school — money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 14 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 15 | The important finding which appears in Study 3 but which did not in Groeger and Chapman study is the tendency for subjects to rate the risky situations as significantly lower on normality but higher on speed . |
| 16 | There is suspicion of the work of demons ; but it is rare for demons to attack the rich , and above all to leave no trace of violence on the bodies . |
| 17 | The Association is paying for the work , expected to cost in the region of £5,500 ( $9,600 ) from donations worldwide and has also launched an appeal for funds to restore the whole altar . |
| 18 | Where the future can not usefully be predicted , it makes sense for policymakers to assume the worse and plan for heavy demands on services by the very old . |
| 19 | The chief inspector added that he and colleagues at the Halesowen driving school had been pressing senior officers for months to re-introduce the two-week intensive training course dropped in 1989 . |
| 20 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 21 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 22 | Here the writer gropes for words to describe the indescribable communion which followed the sacrifice and fulfilled the covenant . |
| 23 | There is just time for enthusiasts to capture the evocative scenes on film and video from carriage and trackside before it 's too late . |
| 24 | However , it is far preferable for companies to utilise the professional services of a company such as Rentokil Tropical Plants . |
| 25 | A competition for companies to follow the cheapest labour could well ensue and the loser , the labour force , both East and West . |
| 26 | Unless Customs back down , the only way for companies to avoid the extra VAT bill is to make sure any acquisitions are completed before March 1 March , 1993 . ’ |
| 27 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
| 28 | It must now be a matter of top priority for hauliers to take the best insurance advice available on the risks being run and the cover available for operations by road and sea to mainland Europe . |
| 29 | Fourthly , the need for collections to reflect the full range of materials available within the priority areas chosen . |
| 30 | Early last year , in an interview with a low-circulation Blues fanzine , Bowyer stated that the current political climate in Northern Ireland would make it almost impossible for Catholics to cross the sectarian divide and play for Linfield . |