Example sentences of "to [noun] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 The administration and the external political and administrative establishment may see participation as a political end in itself , as well as a means to building coalitions for the political good of their establishment .
2 Era has dipped a toe in the computer games market , but is relying on the trend to computer toys for the whole family recreating a demand for conventional individual toys .
3 The corporate aircraft departed White Plains , N.Y. , at 1116 on an IFR flight plan to Boca Raton , Florida to enplane passengers for a return flight to White Plains .
4 Top On the workbench ( from left ) ; tuning pegs , a plane , a reamer to taper holes for the pegs , beeswax to lubricate and polish the wood , lute bridges , lute-bridge templates , a saw and a chisel
5 This will lead to revenue short-falls for the period and consequently less cash flow than the industry would have wished .
6 Lansana Conte , relinquished the presidency of the CTRN , in answer to opposition demands for a separation of the executive and legislature .
7 Mobutu had agreed in April to opposition demands for the holding of a conference to discuss a new constitution and the holding of multiparty elections [ see p. 38133 ] , but the conference had been repeatedly postponed and the government had decreed on July 15 that it would not be sovereign on constitutional matters .
8 Saibou had in November 1990 yielded to opposition demands for the introduction of a multiparty system and for the holding of a national conference [ see pp. 38085 ; 37841 ] .
9 In 1961 it was reopened as a hospital dedicated to specialist services for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients , to serve the whole of the West Midlands region .
10 ‘ We 've sold sodium perborate to detergent makers for a decade .
11 Last night they confirmed they will be offering only 619 seats to Tottenham fans for the final League game of the season at Old Trafford on May 2 .
12 Catalytic Systems Division proved to be one of the main engines for growth in the year and was the largest contributor to group profits for the second year running .
13 If you have not been able to come to Q.T. Days for a while , please try to come during the new session .
14 This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina .
15 Nonetheless , the notice sent to Velcro shareholders for the 1991 annual general meeting does give some clues .
16 Over the years , the departments have moved closer together and combining them will also lead to efficiency savings for the authority .
17 The original idea behind Compacts was to redress the balance , to provide access to quality jobs for the people who lived next door .
18 At a birthday party yesterday — on Kensington Woof Gardens — he and a few brothers and sisters handed £200,000 to Guide Dogs for the Blind for a new training centre in Southampton .
19 All profits from the event , under the Lancaster Rail Tours banner , will go to Guide Dogs for the Blind and M.S. research .
20 The particular approach to consumer contracts for the supply of goods and services will be discussed in detail in Chapter 5 .
21 Although Irix 5.0 conforms to the Mips ABI , Mips computer users running Risc/OS 5.0 or lower will have to recompile applications for the new release .
22 The impasse in the latest round of negotiations was widely believed to be due to continued French opposition to US proposals for a cut in the volume of EC-subsidised cereal exports .
23 So he promised them if they could shift over 30 electronic flykillers on the phone he would take them to Alton Towers for the day .
24 According to casualty figures for the conflict in 1991 issued by Nagorny Karabakh 270 Armenians , 216 Azerbaijanis and 15 servicemen of various nationalities had died ; 400 Armenians , 180 Azerbaijanis and 34 servicemen had been wounded ; and 599 Armenians had been taken hostage , of whom 226 had not yet returned .
25 In the 1930s fears of bombing casualties in a future war led to government plans for the dispersal of the population ; dispersal , it was felt , would not only remove civilians from the highly vulnerable urban conurbations where blitzkreig bombing would be concentrated , but would also minimise casualties by spreading the population as thinly as possible .
26 The ‘ agencies ’ proposed in the Ibbs Next Steps Report ( see Chapter 2 ) , for example , are seen as an alternative to government departments for the delivery of a wide range of executive functions in line with the Thatcher government 's emphasis on ‘ value for money ’ .
27 The Audit Commission 's response to Government proposals for the council tax focuses mainly on administrative implications .
28 I remember during the rehearsals for Die Zauberflöte he criticized the Sarastro for putting on the kind of unctuous tone that , according to Gründgens , was best left to indoctrination meetings for the Party faithful .
29 Significant shifts of production have occurred from export crops , such as coffee and cocoa , to food crops for the domestic market , and the trend towards such shifts is likely to continue .
30 Brazilian medical schools have little commitment to training doctors for the health needs of the community as most will become specialists .
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