Example sentences of "to [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Francis who gave Cantona his foothold in English football by bringing him to Sheffield for a one-week trial last January . |
| 2 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 3 | US prices go from $2,000 for a 12 user licence to $12,000 for a 250 user copy . |
| 4 | The Esso England Junior squad goes to Stockholm for the annual eight nations international contest with Lee Dalzell ( GatesheadWhickham ) , Susan Rolph , Anthony Day , Craig Eldred and Nick Sultman ( all Newcastle ) in the team . |
| 5 | By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification , the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe 's nations , showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe . |
| 6 | The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) . |
| 7 | Galvin , Swindon 's Irish winger , has recovered from injury , while Parkin returns to defence for the suspended Gittens . |
| 8 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 9 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 10 | Administration sources made it clear yesterday that Mr Clinton was ready to go to Moscow for the 3-4 April meeting , whose present venue is Vancouver . |
| 11 | It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314 . |
| 12 | Chairman , if I could just er , erm , some words that are n't included in this pa paper , I understand that the Deregulation Bill is published on the eighteenth erm , and presented to Parliament for the first reading , erm , it 's still far from clear what 's going to be said in it , but erm , it 's still widely expected that in fact , on major contentious issues will in fact be the suggestion that sections of Acts of Parliament will , could be revealed by ministerial order rather than go through the parliamentary process again . |
| 13 | More importantly , it is essential to make statutory provision for a framework of public audit in this country sufficient to ensure accountability to Parliament for the wider range of public expenditure now and in the future . |
| 14 | The government ( Cmnd 9008 , 1983 ) summarised its economic case thus : ‘ Ministers are accountable to Parliament for the broad conduct of the economy … . |
| 15 | The middle class is growing and the military is no longer the only path to advancement for the poor but able . |
| 16 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 17 | The 600 is priced from £13,995 for the 620i to £21,995 for the top-of-the-range 623GSi which I tested recently . |
| 18 | After chatting to Davidson for a few minutes longer , he went back to his office . |
| 19 | The Relieving Officer for East Greenwich , however , favoured giving relief to widows for the first few weeks after their husband 's death , but after that he believed some of the children should be taken into the workhouse , because he considered that an able-bodied widow should work . |
| 20 | Charges ranging from £78 a year for a 240-litre wheeled bin to £290 for a 1,110 litre wheeled bin will start from August this year . |
| 21 | The deal adds fresh momentum to plans for a rare Irish service to a river berth off Twelve Quays , Wirral . |
| 22 | Co-operation between Ballistic and Performance Composites and the Shildon site has led to plans for a joint stand at the Royal Navy and British Army Equipment Exhibition in Aldershot in September . |
| 23 | HERITAGE Minister Peter Brooke is being asked to give financial backing to plans for a multi-cultural centre in Chester . |
| 24 | On Monday she 's going back to mum for a few days . |
| 25 | Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life . |
| 26 | It was a very hot and sunny day in 1987 when I went to Semerwater for the open air service , and Yorkshire 's largest natural lake was a hive of activity . |
| 27 | Well erm , I 've just come up and and the accident so I 'm only entitled to money for the first four days . |
| 28 | I travelled down to Gateshead for the big meeting there , Great Britain versus the Commonwealth , and was witness to one of the most amazing come-backs in British sprinting history made by , who else , that old war-horse Allan Wells . |
| 29 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 30 | The switch back to Creole for the single word " though " is particularly striking . |