Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The expenses incurred by the college were all incurred necessarily in order properly to provide for these pupils .
2 There has been some difficulty in producing a response panel sophisticated enough to allow for this range whilst still being easily understood and accessible to a child .
3 Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process .
4 willi , willing and a a kindly nature but we if it 's in the middle of a game you know , and er , you know how you are when you 're playing a game well they 'd fetch me away to run for some cheese for an old lady .
5 She would begin at once to look for another post .
6 Both to provide for some self-containment , and thereby minimize the degree of out-commuting .
7 What happens is this : it is swimming along on a near-horizontal plane when it spots a morsel of food , which it can see quite comfortably directly below it in shallow-enough water because its eyes are tilted downwards to allow for this facility .
8 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 .
9 After the Sanctus and before the elevation of the Host , the reader is bidden to remember Christ 's Passion and his own sin , and also to pray for all estates in the land from Pope and King to the " poure and smale " , for good harvests to sustain them and for entry into God 's joy at death .
10 The report 's author , Sir Ieuan Maddock , a former chief scientist at the Department of Industry , says the Ministry of Defence is partly to blame for this stagnation in ‘ technology transfer ’ .
11 They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called .
12 The lights , which once seemed to be there to compensate for any lackings in the performers ' abilities , are now secondary to the punch of the music .
13 To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out .
14 A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players .
15 Amateurs are allowed to compete in these events , too , and while I was trying hard to push for more birdies , the amateurs would be content with 2 or 3-under-par .
16 So try to get him to a point where he is agreeable to discussing the problem openly with you or else to go for some form of counselling .
17 It is now our responsibility in the year ahead to care for this movement which is so dear to our hearts to those who have gone before and to the young members who with our encouragement will be involved in the future .
18 Frequently it is useful to have someone else to blame for such problems .
19 The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame .
20 When everybody is for clean air and against pollution [ it is indeed ] difficult politically to vote for any amendment that would be characterized by the press as weakening the bill .
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