Example sentences of "for [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first … is the arrangement for bringing to the Joint Intelligence Organisation 's attention information other than intelligence reports . |
| 2 | Blue Arrow plc , a UK employment agency which Mr Reed was responsible for bringing to the bank in 1985 , was seen as a valuable addition . |
| 3 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 4 | Thank You for bringing to this country men who are good listeners , who hear Your instructions and obey . ’ |
| 5 | Personal papers , diaries and autobiographies are exceedingly valuable for bringing to light how past parents coped with the difficult task of rearing their children . |
| 6 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 7 | John Finnis criticizes positivists for attributing to natural law thinking a wholly deductive methodology such that given the fundamental principle as major premise and a statement of fact as minor premise the one right answer pops out auto-matically . |
| 8 | There are substantial reasons for attributing to Evesham the monuments to Hester Salusbury ( died 1614 , Stansted Mountfitchet , Essex ) ; Robert Rich , first Earl of Warwick ( died 1619 , Snarford , Lincolnshire ) ; Sir Justinian Lewin ( died 1620 , Otterden , Kent ) ; John Troughton ( died 1621 , Ingatestone , Essex ) , and the black stone panel engraved with allegorical devices in commemoration of Guy Carleton ( died 1628 , Cuckfield , East Sussex ) . |
| 9 | The papers had accused Neethling of issuing poison to members of so-called hit squads for administering to anti-apartheid activists . |
| 10 | A procedure for transforming to a frame in free fall is described in Section 6.6 . |
| 11 | There was widespread media criticism of the government for capitulating to the drug traffickers , but Gaviria denied that he had entered into negotiations or made any prior deal with Escobar as part of a policy to defuse the costly and violent " drug war " gripping the country . |
| 12 | Although the Macmillan cabinet pressed management to delay a settlement , ministers were not prepared to take responsibility for a breakdown in negotiations ; when the industry settled , the Prime Minister publicly rebuked management for capitulating to the unions and breaching the pay pause ( 1982 : 225–6 ) . |
| 13 | Facts appear solid , values fluid ; there are firm reasons for accepting , if only provisionally , scientific laws of nature , none for submitting to canons of taste or to the moral law . |
| 14 | Thatcher said that the UK was ‘ financially sound ’ , there was a ban on overtime ( voluntary ) on British Rail ; the US was organising sanctions against Poland for daring to be taken over by the military and the Social Science Research Council , to muffled cheers and sobs , got a £1 million cut . |
| 15 | Parish councillors at Robin Hood 's Bay are calling for policing to be stepped up . |
| 16 | The bid drew the attention of the Takeover Panel , and Burson-Marsteller , Dowty 's public relations advisers , were censured for suggesting to various newspapers during the bid that Dowty 's profits would rise considerably in the future . |
| 17 | However , British people probably have reasons for reacting to black immigrants in this way . |
| 18 | Angry with herself for reacting to him , she peeled off her wet swimsuit and vigorously began to towel her body . |
| 19 | Chamber president Norman Campbell acknowledged Darlington had a problem with glue sniffers but praised police for reacting to complaints from traders and members of the public . |
| 20 | The latter specialise in business computers , word processors and ‘ peripheral ’ equipment for attaching to computers . |
| 21 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 22 | Above : The Noral Lanterns range of wallmounted lanterns includes the Regent Mini ( shown here ) for attaching to the wall of your house . |
| 23 | These are for attaching to the erm , tabs . |
| 24 | The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers . |
| 25 | He has rebuilt confidence and , on the triumphant journey home , the captain , Bryan Robson , was applauded for thanking him ‘ for sticking to his principles ’ . |
| 26 | May we come to respect ourselves for sticking to our principles and living our lives with honesty and integrity . |
| 27 | In these circumstances there was much to be said for sticking to forms that were known and accepted ; and in spite of the great list of possible wordings in PS , the Digest does not give the impression that the more obscure terms were much used . |
| 28 | Clough has deserved the plaudits for sticking to his football principles but , as he knows , it takes courage to play your football at the top of the League too . |
| 29 | There are several models on the market — in fact , I 've got quite a collection outside my office — but I think the best ones are those made of clear plastic , with a couple of suckers for sticking to the glass and a removable tray for easy cleaning . |
| 30 | His final point about trust is fair enough , it sounds like he has had a gutful of Leeds fans berating him for sticking to his guns . |