Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 2 | Lithuania 's Supreme Council ( parliament ) on June 29 voted to suspend for 100 days its March 11 declaration of independence in order for negotiations to be held with the Soviet authorities on Lithuania 's future status . |
| 3 | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has been asked to look at the allegations and to arrange for certain persons who are said to be able to shed new light on the case to be interviewed . |
| 4 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 5 | Though powerful and open to abuse , these authorities claim they can be offered to women as reproductive options , giving hope to the childless , to prevent unwanted pregnancies , and to screen for terrible illnesses it foetuses . |
| 6 | In the case of Japanese enterprise groups many of these hierarchical relationships are arranged through complex subcontracts and the extensive use of quasi-democratic work teams using horizontal relationships to substitute for functional arrangements which more typically are hierarchical in the modernist bureaucracy . |
| 7 | ‘ Although we have no mandate to talk for Scottish fishermen we are quite convinced that they too would want to continue exporting large amounts of herring to your country . ’ |
| 8 | If current cultivars do not adapt , breeders may need to look for new varieties which cope better with milder winters . |
| 9 | A more satisfactory way of delimiting lexical units is to look for grammatical differences which correlate with differences of meaning . |
| 10 | Sow a row of turnip ‘ Manchester Market ’ to grow for green tops which can be harvested in early to mid-winter . |
| 11 | ULSTER Unionist MP John Taylor today refused to apologise for controversial remarks he made about the murder of Roman Catholics by loyalists . |
| 12 | It wants to do for Regional Railways what its slick imagery did to boost Inter City . |
| 13 | One day , perhaps , somebody will attempt to do for English armies what Contamine has done for French ones . |
| 14 | This again was impossible to calculate for those theses which had received only one citation . |
| 15 | This was difficult to understand for impassioned artists who saw Surrealism and Abstraction as struggling for the soul of modern art . |
| 16 | To allow for those contingencies I think it right to allow the commercial rate for the twenty eight hours per week in inverted commas , parental care , rather than a discounted rate . |
| 17 | Make two or three tracings of the design to enable you to experiment with various groupings and arrangements , and also to allow for any mistakes you make in cutting , especially on your first attempt . |
| 18 | On Sept. 6 President Bush called on the US Congress , which had reconvened on Sept. 2 , to delay for 120 days its approval of fresh loan guarantees to Israel , on the grounds that their approval would harm prospects for a peace conference . |
| 19 | In trying to account for overall trends it is helpful to start with the sequences of factors which control the immediate risks of fertility for the individual and without which births can not occur : natural fecundity ( the physiological capacity to conceive and bear children ) , exposure to intercourse within and outside marriage , and evasion of the consequences of intercourse through contraception and abortion . |
| 20 | It is difficult for an authority to pursue its priorities and plan to meet the needs of its population , whilst part of its resources are being used to pay for outward flows which may not figure in those priorities . |
| 21 | The most important requirement is to improve for all musicians what might be called the infrastructure of opportunity . |
| 22 | The group also tries to cater for local artists who work fulltime and are unable to go to all classes . |
| 23 | The group also tries to cater for local artists who work fulltime and are unable to go to all classes . |
| 24 | In trying to find answers , managers — whether they were heads or governors — were caught between the need to make progress and to prepare for broad changes which had been widely publicized by central government and to prepare for the necessity that they should lead changes . |
| 25 | The relevant difference to maximize for those legislators who see maximizing their district 's private benefits as a way to seek re-election is between and , which occurs at project size ON in the diagram . |