Example sentences of "for [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCARBOROUGH 'S version of New Faces worked well for experimenting manager McHale at the McCain Stadium on Saturday . |
| 2 | The Chamberlain Act also provided for subsidising slum clearance schemes . |
| 3 | This has greatly reduced their potential for instigating change . |
| 4 | The man responsible for instigating change was Robin Darwin who had taken over as Rector on 1 January 1948 . |
| 5 | Charged with meting out rights and privileges for all beings and entities at the time of Creation , he carried a small leather pouch on one hip containing the charms for immortality and reincarnation , while a large stone bucket to his other side contained materials for instigating death and decay . |
| 6 | THREE Glasgow men jailed last week for four years for bringing hashish into Spain have been released because of the time they spent awaiting trial , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 7 | PRINCESS Anne must take much of the credit for bringing royalty into the 20th Century . |
| 8 | In Southampton in the 1450s , when there was considerable bitterness in civic politics over the attitude to be taken to aliens , whether they should be welcomed for bringing wealth to the town , or attacked as intruders , marriage could lead a man to switch his allegiance from one group to another . |
| 9 | It can be seen that the central position of the MTFS is the ‘ monetarist view ’ of inflation that controlling the rate of growth of the money supply is a necessary and sufficient condition for bringing inflation under control over the medium term , covering a period of 3–4 years . |
| 10 | Whoever decided that Sound City '92 should be held in Norwich deserves a good pat on the back ( a knife would be better — IM ) for bringing decency and respect to the East of England . |
| 11 | The scope for bringing influence to bear and exerting power , in the best sense of the word , is probably greater at midlife than at any other time . |
| 12 | Janet was a pupil of the well-respected Professor Charcot ( 1825–1893 ) , who was responsible for founding the Salpêtrière School of Hypnotism in France and for bringing credibility to the subject . |
| 13 | The only requirement for bringing software under LIFESPAN control is that each source file ( except for those in the FOREIGN-SET ) must contain a module header . |
| 14 | Or young and trendy , favouring outlandish schemes for bringing religion up to date , inviting the congregation to shake hands with each other , and expecting them to sing newfangled and jolly hymns to the accompaniment of the local pop group . |
| 15 | THE convicted Watergate figure Charles Colson , once known as ‘ the toughest of the tough ’ in the Nixon White House , won a million-dollar prize yesterday for bringing religion and hope to prisons . |
| 16 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 17 | In closing we would like to congratulate the manager and chairman Jim Boyce for bringing quality players such as Greenhalgh , Manley , Kerr , Gill , McAllister and Flynn to the club . |
| 18 | Convey my thanks to Dame Sybil and Master Thomas and my apologies for bringing trouble upon them . ’ |
| 19 | Prince Philip blamed her for bringing shame and ridicule on the Royal Family and ordered her to ‘ help maintain the dignity of the Crown ’ . |
| 20 | All Departments of the University again appointed a Liaison Officer to be responsible for bringing Convocation and its events to the attention of their students and for providing information to be passed on to Convocation members , and there was some useful discussion at a tea-time meeting between Liaison Officers and committee members on 21 January 1992 . |
| 21 | HOWARD WILKINSON last night slammed Third Division Barnet for bringing football into disrepute as Barry Fry was sacked again — this time for real . |
| 22 | LEEDS boss Howard Wilkinson last night slammed Third Division Barnet for bringing football into disrepute as Barry Fry was sacked again — this time for real . |
| 23 | It was the most important of these groupings as it was directly responsible for bringing NIGRA to Derry for the 5 October 1968 march and thus was the catalyst which turned the civil rights movement into a mass campaign . |
| 24 | During the 1980s , assets with obvious potential for realising value were used to raise capital and pay off debt ( redundant farm workers ' cottages were sold , barns and oast houses converted for residential use ) . |
| 25 | Both reasons for fragmenting work imply the creation of a managerial hierarchy to co-ordinate and control the various fragmented jobs . |
| 26 | We ca n't find a national scheme for re-using Christmas cards , but many local charities run appeals . |
| 27 | In Jan. 1844 Robert Pearson and partner were paid the sum shown below for sawing wood : |
| 28 | ‘ Not all companies , ’ it said , ‘ have the stomach for including goodwill in their losses-on-disposal calculations . ’ |
| 29 | The rationale for including MIL is that conscription works towards reducing the unemployment rate if individuals are more likely to be drafted into the services if they are unemployed . |
| 30 | The usual reason for including side-pond was to save water . |