Example sentences of "to a [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Think it possible for anyone to add poison to a dish intended for Sir Thomas , Mr Didier ? ’ |
| 2 | Labour 's vote is holding up in Scotland while Tory support is at its lowest level since the campaign started , according to a poll conducted for Scotland on Sunday . |
| 3 | It is ill mannered to stand around gossiping , as nothing is more irritating to a person waiting for attention . |
| 4 | The place of the formal legal process — prosecution — is transformed in this compliance system from the public , occasionally dramatic , but quite conventional response in a sanctioning system to a rarity reserved for a small , highly selected number of cases . |
| 5 | Fearful that the widower will take his life , she rushes back to London , to a man grieving for a woman who once said to him : ‘ do n't be silly , there 's no hurry , we 've all our lives . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It came down to a willingness to pay for it . ’ |
| 7 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 8 | In England in 1985 , according to a survey conducted for the DES , there were approximately 43,500 students in further education with special educational needs , as defined in the Warnock Report . |
| 9 | Atkinson is also looking to a February return for England winger Tony Daley , out of action since undergoing a cartilage operation three months ago . |
| 10 | The complex " Eurolex " package of necessary legislative changes was finally passed on Oct. 21 , subject to a referendum scheduled for Dec. 6 . |
| 11 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |
| 12 | An amendment extending the life of the councils for a maximum of one year was attached to a bill providing for the abolition of the county councils in favour of 13 new regional corporations which was approved by the Senate on Sept. 5 . |
| 13 | An ease in grade plus the bonus of Trap 1 should all add up to a return to form for the Gordon Hodson runner . |
| 14 | In two separate incidents this year , sent a letter to a member asking for membership and was very embarrassed to learn that the member had paid her teacher some long time earlier . |
| 15 | Any firm which can demonstrate the appropriate experience will be able to act as sponsor to a company applying for listing . |
| 16 | He came to a stop to feel for the kerb . |
| 17 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
| 18 | This form is not to be recommended to a landlord , because if his power is restricted to a power to determine for certain specified purposes , he may lose the power altogether if he can not establish the purpose at the crucial date . |
| 19 | If you try to write to a file opened for input you will get a " Write protected " error ( error number 252 ) . |
| 20 | Many inmates in the local prisons spent almost all day locked up , two or three men to a cell intended for one , with no integral sanitation and little to do . |
| 21 | Prisons are overcrowded with two or three inmates to a cell designed for one not uncommon . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom , which at the 1989 conference in Malaysia had been isolated because of its opposition to a declaration calling for an intensification of sanctions against South Africa , took a lead in Harare on several issues . |
| 23 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 24 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 25 | In the first phase he confirmed that when meat powder ( an unconditioned stimulus ) was placed on the dog 's tongue a natural reflex occurred and the dog salivated ( an unconditioned response ) , but that it did not salivate solely in response to a buzzer sounded for 30 seconds , a neutral stimulus . |
| 26 | Born in 1844 to a family noted for its piety and scholarship , Lazarus had decided to emigrate to Canada in 1869 , having heard reports of the young country 's potential : its federation was then but two years old . |
| 27 | A bald albino hedgehog is starting to grow spines again thanks to a shampoo designed for humans . |
| 28 | The fighting in Croatia has caused severe damage to numerous environmentally-sensitive areas , according to a report compiled for the International Council for Bird Preservation ( ICBP ) . |
| 29 | Orimulsion , the new low-cost fuel imported from Venezuela [ see EDs 51 and 52 ] , is unsuitable for burning in power stations because of its unacceptably-toxic emissions and potential for increasing acid pollution , according to a report prepared for British Coal . |
| 30 | Timber companies carrying out massive logging operations in the remote tropical forests of northern Congo are operating outside the law and defrauding the government of millions of dollars , according to a report prepared for the World Bank and the Congolese government . |