Example sentences of "to [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slams the company 's parking proposals as ‘ wholly inadequate ’ to catering for the extra visitors . |
| 2 | Neither the programme of resettlement in Siberia , nor peasant purchases of noble land came close to compensating for the continued steep rise in the rural population in these regions . |
| 3 | She teaches at Sleaford division of the Girls ' Brigade and also at her local Sunday school ; Phyl McMillan , of London , for her contribution to swimming for the disabled and for the over-50s , for whom she and her husband formed a club . |
| 4 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 5 | An additional complication comes from the fact that Congress has never committed itself to paying for the entire SSC . |
| 6 | It may be true , as some suggest , that working-class budgets would not stretch to paying for the regular use of new birth-control methods but old , tried and cheap techniques might still be used . |
| 7 | Only Japan , of the major exporters , remained virtually impervious to import penetration — all the phenomenal growth of manufactured exports being devoted to paying for the soaring import bill for materials ( chapter 12 ) |
| 8 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 9 | He worked in an environment dedicated to caring for the homeless . |
| 10 | But , Alfa Romeo returned to racing for the first World Championship in 1950 , he was invited to join their team and he finished second in the inaugural championship , having won the Monaco , Belgian and French Grands Prix . |
| 11 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 12 | Er it 's been suggested by Mr from the H B F that as I understand his suggestion , that a lower provision of housing land in some way affects affordability or affects the er access to housing for the lower se lower ends of the lower income households . |
| 13 | And provision by the welfare state expanded until the 1970s with benefits increasing in real value , access to higher education and health care expanding , and rights to housing for the homeless being guaranteed by law for priority groups . |
| 14 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 15 | But with the approaching academic year our thoughts must turn to preparing for the forthcoming term . |
| 16 | We can then effectively return to fighting for the improved quality of life of all our members . |
| 17 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 18 | Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause . |