Example sentences of "to [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Galvin , Swindon 's Irish winger , has recovered from injury , while Parkin returns to defence for the suspended Gittens . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The government ( Cmnd 9008 , 1983 ) summarised its economic case thus : ‘ Ministers are accountable to Parliament for the broad conduct of the economy … . |
| 13 | The middle class is growing and the military is no longer the only path to advancement for the poor but able . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The 600 is priced from £13,995 for the 620i to £21,995 for the top-of-the-range 623GSi which I tested recently . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well erm , I 've just come up and and the accident so I 'm only entitled to money for the first four days . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The switch back to Creole for the single word " though " is particularly striking . |
| 22 | The collaboration of artists with the stage was also brought to a high point by Serge Diaghilev , in his commissions to artists for the Russian Ballet . |
| 23 | Intellectual fascination with communism had been a feature of the 1930s ( naturally enough given the gloom and despair of that period ) and Communist Party membership surged during the war in response to admiration for the Russian military effort . |
| 24 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 25 | However , we have also been very grateful to WWF/UK for the valuable grants you have provided . |
| 26 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 27 | The plan , which proposed the establishment of a UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) in the run-up to a general election , had been accepted by the NGC , but the SOC remained opposed to proposals for the total dismantling of its armed forces . |
| 28 | Rafael Eitan resigned as Minister of Agriculture on Dec. 24 in protest at Likud 's opposition to proposals for the direct election of the Prime Minister ; the Likud central committee had voted by a large majority on Dec. 23 against the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 29 | To Lichfield for the 17th Literary Dinner , hosted at the spectacular and refurbished Guild Hall by booksellers Ralph James and Cliff Redshaw . |
| 30 | The Board currently comprises four executive Directors ( six from 1 April 1993 ) and six non-executive Directors ( of whom one is an executive of a related company ) , and is responsible to shareholders for the proper management of the Group . |