Example sentences of "[to-vb] room for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expansion vessel to provide room for the water in the system to expand as it heats up |
| 2 | The depth of the shelf from the wall should be a minimum of 10cm ( 4in ) to allow room for the track and bulk of fabric when the curtains are drawn back . |
| 3 | For the briefest second I wonder why my Thomas the Tank Engine mobile has been taken down , but assume it is to be re-positioned to make room for the present . |
| 4 | The Regional Board representatives suggested that the council should move sick patients from Ampthill and Biggleswade institutions to Steppingley and Biggleswade Isolation Hospitals , to make room for the non-sick . |
| 5 | " Well , if Dr Sawyer 's given permission Tilda advanced , with Martha lingering doubtfully behind , and swept several plants from the loaded windowsill to make room for the Suncrush . |
| 6 | He had repaired damaged boxes with sticky brown paper and stacked the large cartons of cleaning cloths and feather dusters up against a back wall , to make room for the consignment of cottons and wools which was due soon . |
| 7 | Maria shivered and , moving closer to Luke to make room for the couple , she touched his wrist lightly with her fingers , unsure if the impulse to do so sprang from an urge to seek reassurance , or to give it . |
| 8 | Hopefully , you will have anticipated this by having shot some spare length which can be sacrificed to make room for the insert , the edit in and edit out points for which are determined with the help of the cue/review buttons . |
| 9 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 10 | But before you get the graphic into your document you need to do a bit of donkey work to place it properly , setting up your own margins and tabs to make room for the image . |
| 11 | His brevet ( his flying wings in other words ) was situated some two or three inches above the pocket and when this error was pointed out to him by the more die-hard RAF characters he pointed out that the space was to make room for the VC , the DSO and the DFC . |
| 12 | Gifts of rice and oil from the Jehovah 's Witnesses were left behind on the tarmac in Sierra Leone to make room for the booze . |
| 13 | It is a wonderful experience to sit with him in the quiet peacefulness of his home , the table cleared ( in addition to having had the house duly cleaned by his ‘ daily ’ ) to make room for the Sabbath candles , its bread and wine . |
| 14 | finds , trying to make room for the cross , he 's tackled and tackled and it 's only a goal kick . |
| 15 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |