Example sentences of "to their [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases the day centres genuinely act as training centres , preparing those who attend for eventual independence , while in others the aim is simply to offer a daily change of environment and relief to their families for those too handicapped ever to lead independent lives . |
| 2 | Clients will often look to their accountants for impartial guidance on a wide range of investment issues , yet too few practitioners meet this need with a pro-active approach to enhancing their clients ' overall financial wellbeing , whether directly or via an associate . |
| 3 | Will we see women working on check out tills being sacked because they can not keep a smile screwed on to their faces for eight hours every day ? |
| 4 | THE housebuilder Bellway yesterday joined the lengthening queue of UK companies that have returned to their shareholders for fresh equity with a £33.6 million rights issue , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 5 | When , thanks in large part to world events , ITN 's chiefs were forced to turn to their backers for more cash , there was heavy resistance . |
| 6 | As a result , the polytechnics have had to turn to their authorities for additional financial help which , in many cases , has strengthened the latter 's hand in demanding more stringent control over the polytechnic 's expenditure . |
| 7 | Most prisoners are confined to their cells for long periods of time . |
| 8 | The citizens were literally waiting to seize the disembarking troops and bear them off to their homes for lavish entertainment , while singing on the quayside was the ample figure of Perla Siedle Gibson , ‘ The Lady in White ’ . |
| 9 | We pray for those who are confined to their homes for long periods . |
| 10 | ‘ Invitations to their homes for formal and informal lunches , dinners and parties became notably scarce , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Then , when the data have been collected , the respondents are grouped into homogeneous categories according to their scores for selected variables . |
| 12 | We direct aircraft or gunfire on to their targets for maximum accuracy . |
| 13 | Then the government must offer the French-speaking Quebeckers an alternative to their demands for political sovereignty , which have grown in volume ( if not in clarity ) during the past winter . |
| 14 | Bees collect it in great baskets on their thighs and take it back to their hives for immediate consumption or for turning into pollen bread which is an essential food for their developing young . |
| 15 | Many vicars or pastors want to hold on to their colleagues for dear life and cause them to be tied to two works rather than releasing them fully to one . |