Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the King stood by his Apothecaries and their independence , although the City did not openly acknowledge them until seven years later , when they were allowed to take part in the river procession on Lord Mayor 's Day , using a hired barge for the occasion , since as yet they lacked funds for such ceremonial trimmings . |
| 2 | of their receipts if they sell land for low-cost home ownership . |
| 3 | They raise funds for these purposes by borrowing mainly from wholesale banks , taking deposits from insurance companies , pension funds , companies and some private individuals . |
| 4 | The foals will play together , eat grass together , sleep together , and enjoy just being together : they develop affection for each other . |
| 5 | Only 2 points have come from their last 4 league games , but they want revenge for last season 's 5-3 defeat at the Manor . |
| 6 | Within the profession the general feeling is that the greater the degree of autonomy that can be given to teachers and schools , the more likely are they to accept responsibility for educational provision and become committed to improving its quality . |
| 7 | They provided education for some 621,000 children , 6.8 % of the total school population ( less in Wales and Scotland but more in Northern Ireland , where voluntary grammar schools are included ) ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Tables 2 and 14 ) . |
| 8 | They found material for both these purposes in the work of many anthropologists , but on the whole the writings of Morgan seemed best suited to this twin task . |
| 9 | They used courts for private cases : divorced wives whose maintenance had not been paid , and heirs who thought they had been cheated , appear in the earliest court records ; they were plaintiffs and claimants whose position was weak in the traditional system . |
| 10 | There is n't any hard building stone hereabouts , so they used clunch for most domestic building and even for some church interiors . |
| 11 | But it is more likely that , while they provide reasons for different things , they share the same basic structure . |
| 12 | More importantly they provide training for local volunteers and they give health education advice . |
| 13 | It was the same later that year when they visited Canada for three weeks . |
| 14 | There can be no doubt that such hostilities were having important consequences ; they created opportunities for new dynastic families to emerge . |
| 15 | From the V&A Treasury Christmas catalogue , they cost £6.95 for three . |
| 16 | They cost 79p for 150 g . |
| 17 | Ultimately Steele divided land amongst his slaves for which they paid rent ; they received wages for other work . |
| 18 | In particular , will he confirm that the Government see leisure courses and non-vocational courses as being equal in value to vocational courses and will they ensure funding for all ? |
| 19 | They stimulate ideas for possible improvements . |
| 20 | Manchester United broke the British record when they paid £2.3m for Pallister three years ago . |
| 21 | While such inducements presumably have some positive effect , later discussion will note that management control over their terms casts doubt on the extent to which they secure an identity of interests with shareholders , and the danger that they create pressures for short-term increases in accounting profits or merely permit management to extract an increased proportion of company revenues . |
| 22 | Now good that 's a really brilliant point on any graph to put the units in because they give marks for that , when they see your graph they want to see you 've put the units on . |
| 23 | Soviet military facilities in Africa and Asia had been acquired and retained only by diverting considerable resources into military assistance programmes and they encouraged demands for open-ended Soviet economic assistance . |
| 24 | Principles of restraint restrict the pursuit of good or valuable goals , they exclude action for valid , sound reasons for action , or they enjoin the government to preserve a state of affairs which there are good reasons to change . |
| 25 | They raised £2,500 for disabled athletes . |
| 26 | Total ribonucleic acid preparations from the two colonic tumour cell lines were subjected to northern blot analysis to investigate whether they expressed mRNA for ICAM-1 . |
| 27 | However , their independence was no hardship as they exchanged stores for local honey , eggs , and other native produce . |
| 28 | In addition , however , they secure accommodation for some homeless households who do not fall within this category . |
| 29 | They blocked requests for new development assistance worth US$74,000,000 . |
| 30 | In this case , the taxpayers should ensure that either they pay rent for each day of the use or that the property is not available for their use for extended periods when the parties have no intention of using the same . |