Example sentences of "to [noun] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 2 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 3 | The grants applied to houses both for letting and selling , and the local authorities were empowered also to give help to private builders . |
| 4 | Following discussion of the new legislation on Health and Safety of workstations , it was agreed that £5,000 should be transferred from Computing Budget to Estates specifically for the purchase of chairs , screen filters , footrests and document holders to meet EC Regulations . |
| 5 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 6 | Might it be easier to measure this rather than to look directly for structural changes ? |
| 7 | Well they can Erm so e e and and we ought to provision probably for a thousand . |
| 8 | Let's get back to courts just for a moment . |
| 9 | Tyminski had accused Mazowiecki of being a party to the " treasonous " sale of state-owned enterprises to foreigners allegedly for less than their true value [ see p. 37840 ] . |
| 10 | In general you 're going to be paying £10 to £20 more for a fleece lined with Windstopper than a fleece lined or covered with some other material . |
| 11 | Few of these fall into the category of rich kids turning to crime just for kicks , but some believe they are equally blameless . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 13 | He did homage to Edward explicitly for the land held by him of the English king , but is reputed to have added ‘ saving my kingdom of Scotland ’ . |
| 14 | SDLP leader John Hume flew to Portugal today for a summit of the leaders of Europe 's social democratic and labour parties . |
| 15 | ‘ It would n't be worth dragging all the way to Spain just for the three of us , darling . ’ |
| 16 | Now before we move further I 'd like to take this opportunity of expressing on your behalf our thanks to Hugh here for the service that he 's rendered our church to this point in time but particularly as the convenor of the Board of World Mission and Unity . |
| 17 | Well a little closer to home now for the rest of the sport in our roundup . |
| 18 | Although we might try to decision method , the overall stress of the Secretary of State 's decision methods , as they affect North Yorkshire , is that there must be some limit er to migration largely for environmental considerations and indeed , the panel in nineteen eighty seven were very concerned that er migration would not be slowed quickly enough er in North Yorkshire . |
| 19 | BILL Clinton will fly to Washington today for his first post-election meeting with outgoing president George Bush . |
| 20 | THE Prime Minister was flying to Washington tonight for his first White House meeting with President Clinton — amid claims that the traditional special relationship between Britain and the US may be cooling . |
| 21 | Old Kewlany and his mate , as mystified as anyone , were set to work elsewhere for the time being . |
| 22 | I was brought up to work hard for my country . |
| 23 | He goes to work abroad for Herbert , in the firm in which he had earlier secretly bought his friend a partnership , and returns after many years , meeting Estella , who had been wretchedly married to Bentley Drummle and who is now widowed , in the ruins of Miss Havisham 's house . |
| 24 | Yeah I do n't say we do n't row , I do n't say we do n't argue and get on each other 's nerves , we do , but when he goes back to work now for a couple of days it 'll take me three or four days to settle down into not having him there . |
| 25 | There some noble estates were being adapted to farming directly for the market with hired labour ; there a measure of differentiation between successful peasant farmers and their proletarianized neighbours was evident ; there the traditional repartitional commune either did not exist or was decaying . |
| 26 | Liverpool Ladies team travels to Blackpool tonight for a first round tie in the J.M. Rose Bowl . |
| 27 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 28 | It must be thought of as just one of the tools available to business today for managing the ever increasing volumes of information . |
| 29 | Governments — tax evasion through to avoidance especially for transnational corporations ( Vanick 1977 ) ; illegal campaign funds to politicians in return for promises ( Chambliss 1978 ) ; bribing state officials in return for later lucrative employment ; fraudulent information to prevent , influence , or repeal legislation ( Schrag and Divoky 1981 : 94–127 ; Sunday Times Insight Team 1979 : 90–116 ; Ungar 1972 ) ; exporting illegal behaviour to another state where it is not illegal ( Braithwaite 1979b ) ; fraudulent billing of government body ( Klass 1975 ; Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 30 | I 've got two letters to post anyway for Jeremy . |