Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're very good with each other 's babies too , you can come in and not know which baby belongs to who , or a girl 's got an exam coming up and they 'll all muck in and change the baby for her . |
| 2 | This would permit an accurate assessment of current purchaser and provider research and development activity , interest , expertise , and capacity and develop a framework for maintaining this . |
| 3 | A down-at-heel English journalist , Charles Beadle , lived nearby and shared a passion for gardening with Beatrice . |
| 4 | Gail Thompson has composed and arranged the music for this blockbuster of an evening . |
| 5 | So they compromised and gave £100 to the Barlow Clowes Investors Group which was formed last July to represent the investors ' interests and co-ordinate the fight for compensation . |
| 6 | Then you have to wash , grind and pat the maize for the tortillas . |
| 7 | He waved a hand at the company in the circolo , this time higher , but still with the palm towards his breast in farewell , and laid a tip for the boy on the varnished wooden table . |
| 8 | A significant contribution to the BDA 's efficiency in financial matters was made also by Dennis West , who as Treasurer from 1983–1986 modernised the Association 's accounting system and laid the foundation for its computerisation . |
| 9 | The Butler Act replaced almost all previous educational legislation and laid the foundation for the modern education system . |
| 10 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 11 | Labour leader John Smith demanded a proper programme of ACTION to boost the economy — and laid the blame for the crisis firmly at the Prime Minister 's door . |
| 12 | One foreign broker said this week 's plunge in share prices , had knocked the last breath out of the speculative binge of the second half of the eighties , which inflated asset values , and laid the basis for a proper recovery . |
| 13 | It was Althusser who , after Sartre , problematized the very concept of history and laid the basis for much subsequent theoretical investigation . |
| 14 | This passed the responsibility for state education from the school boards to the county and county borough councils , and devised a formula for the comprehensive financial support of the church schools that preserved a measure of voluntary control . |
| 15 | ‘ The idea was developed by four brewers who got together and devised the system for brewing beer in a container ’ says Smillie . |
| 16 | Mr Kevin Williams , the solicitor who exposed Pindown and led the campaign for a full inquiry into the regime , said yesterday the Official Solicitor had asked the children to seek legal advice about compensation if they had not already done so . |
| 17 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |
| 18 | The programmes of those early years explored the whole range of possibilities offered by civil nuclear power and paved the way for the growth of a domestic industry capable of mastering the entire fuel cycle from the mine through enrichment to reprocessing . |
| 19 | The proposals themselves were generally positive and paved the way for community-based nursing to really move forward as a cohesive and dynamic force , but the fact remains that significant concerns have been raised , and the organisations and individuals concerned should at least have an explanation as to why these concerns can not be acted upon , if that is indeed the case . |
| 20 | Although the US was anxious ( or at least willing ) to approve the Bay of Along agreement which would have reincorporated Cochinchina with the other two parts of Vietnam and paved the way for the return of Bao Dai as the Emperor of a legally united Vietnam , the French government was hesitating to submit the agreement to the Assembly because Indo-China , as the US Ambassador in France described it , was a stick of dynamite or , to change the metaphor , the French government was like an overloaded ship incapable of accommodating one more passenger without capsizing : ‘ Indo-China is that passenger ’ . |
| 21 | it also helped to take some of the ‘ sting ’ out of the staff review , and paved the way for further work e.g. the planning of an evaluation of the 12–16 curriculum with respect to areas of experience and skills . |
| 22 | About 160 B.C. an original thinker had emerged among them , Aristobulus , who applied allegorical interpretation to the Bible and paved the way for Philo . |
| 23 | First , the hon. Gentleman should not underestimate the immense force of major legislation presented by the Lord Chancellor in the past three or four years — not least the Children Act 1989 , which has entirely restructured the law on children and paved the way for the family court , and the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , one of the most important pieces of legislation in this field to appear for decades . |
| 24 | The unfortunate incident meant Sonya was immediately out of the competition and paved the way for Vina Buller to come from third into first position after Caroline Sharp had also faults on cross country . |
| 25 | The agreement attracted little of the expected political controversy or opposition from trade unions , and paved the way for the privatization of the state airline Aerolíneas Argentinas , for which bidding was due to open on July 6 . |
| 26 | This included the vaunted Afrika Corps and paved the way for the conquest of southern Europe . |
| 27 | Lord Donaldson described the measure as ‘ fatally flawed ’ and attacked the framework for consultation and approval of the rules as a ‘ choreographed quadrille ’ . |
| 28 | One television news cameraman got lost near here and asked a postman for directions adding , there 's going to be a big gunfight with those religious nuts over there . |
| 29 | In the years to follow he purchased a further 70 hectares and asked the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves — now the renamed Royal Society for Nature Conservation — to take it into safe keeping . |
| 30 | I stayed where I was , trying to look indifferent , though I did set my beer aside and asked the bartender for a calming shot of Hypergrog . |