Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This situation and its controversies have continued , but in general , from the eighteenth century , increasingly specialized academies came through as institutions for teaching many of the arts . |
| 2 | Secondly , actors inherit collective ways of seeing the world , languages for describing it , and institutions for organizing it . |
| 3 | The ban on loans to institutions for buying shares was also lifted . |
| 4 | Before modern institutions for extending credit were available , insignia and jewels were well adapted to serve as sureties for loans . |
| 5 | This team research project will provide an analysis of the policy process in six EC member states ( three in each of Southern and Northern Europe ) and also in the EC institutions for understanding how exactly the creation of the SEM will affect and be affected by environmental policy considerations . |
| 6 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 7 | Like Irenaeus , Epiphanius condemns the Ebionites or Nazareans for denying the Virgin Birth , teaching that Jesus was a man born of men , declaring that Jesus became Messiah only on his baptism and using alternative versions of the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 8 | BR has had difficulty filling vacancies for signalling staff in the wilder outposts of its empire . |
| 9 | They had a folding canoe ( foldboat ) and limpet mines for blowing up any shipping that was in the harbour . |
| 10 | CD 's notes for writing the first instalment of Hard Times reveal that the object of his satire here was ‘ Marlborough House Doctrine ’ and ‘ Cole ’ , i.e. Henry Cole ( 1808–82 ) , civil servant and one of the main organizers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 11 | USL has also provided a customisable systems administration guide and release notes for creating end-user documentation and installation script . |
| 12 | Do you use your notes for developing your historical understanding as well as for recording historical information ? |
| 13 | The taxonomic literature and major catalogues of species are clear targets for conversion to machine readable form and technologies for automating this process are increasingly being used . |
| 14 | By Signal Computing the company means technologies for converting various signals into useful information such as speech store and forward , recognition and synthesis , and facsimile . |
| 15 | 21CenNet Inc , Richardson , Texas-based developer of key enabling technologies for enhancing portable computer communications , has raised $5m in venture funding from InterWest Partners , Sevin Rosen Funds and Compaq Computer Corp. 21CenNet wants the cash to fund development of its MobileWare technologies , which are being designed to support both wireless and wired end-to-end communications to enable portable computing devices to access company information systems by providing a reliable extension of corporate local area networks over public telephone and wireless networks . |
| 16 | All bioremediation techniques involve using microorganisms to degrade the pollutants , and the use of microorganisms has emerged as one of the most promising technologies for treating contaminated groundwater . |
| 17 | With this in mind , FoE cites the Department of the Environment 's refusal to publish its report on technologies for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from power stations , which was completed a year ago , but has never been made public . |
| 18 | Darlington Tory candidate Michael Fallon said Labour could spend a quarter of the £1m in borough council coffers on housing , but also had outstanding debts for constructing council properties . |
| 19 | For almost any tiling job , large or small , you will need the following : tile adhesive ; a notched adhesive spreader ; some tile spacers ( unless you are using universal tiles ) ; lengths of tile edge trim ( optional ) ; grout plus a flexible spreader ; a steel tape measure ; some lengths of 38×12mm ( 1½×½in ) softwood battening plus masonry pins and hammer for large wall areas ; a spirit level ; a tile cutter ; tile nibblers , pincers or tile saw ; some dowelling for shaping the grout lines ; a pencil and felt-tip pen ; and some sponges and cloths for wiping and polishing . |
| 20 | You will also need a good selection of cloths for cleaning the pictures — pieces of linen work well , as do old T-shirts . |
| 21 | They provided the high command in wartime , bringing their own retinue to serve in the royal army , and the senior personnel for enforcing order in the countryside . |
| 22 | The conditions in the warehouse , if the foregoing time and motion performance is achieved , would be such as to permit ready access by fire fighting personnel for mopping up smouldering residual combustion . |
| 23 | Personnel for interviewing , coding , etc. , must be recruited and trained . |
| 24 | Tumber generally praised media personnel for adopting a responsible attitude in their reporting . |
| 25 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 26 | In fact the steam is a convenient way of heating the wood without drying it out and the mechanism is exactly the same as that used by hairdressers for curling hair . |
| 27 | The Oriental equivalent to chutneys , sambals are strong relishes for serving with Oriental foods , often based on amazingly hot peppers . |
| 28 | Mr J A Scouller gave reasons for dissenting . |
| 29 | Whether it 's the desire for a career in music , or the pursuit of greater musical understanding or technique , the reasons for enrolling are as varied as the nationalities of students now attending the Institute . |
| 30 | There were some new freedoms : good reasons for escaping boring social duties , such as calls , or church sermons , or committee meetings . |