Example sentences of "[to-vb] an [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norman Fowler , Secretary of State for Transport at the time , eventually agreed to grant an exemption for amateur-built vehicles . |
| 2 | Naturally planners are reluctant to designate an area for mistakes and oversights , because to anticipate these means that the plan is not as perfect as all planners assume their plans to be . |
| 3 | Reluctantly , the maid consented to request an audience for Cleo with the butler , Master Jobbernole . |
| 4 | Wolfgang intended to write an opera for Paris , but Leopold warned him to study the national taste first , since his reputation would hang on his first piece . |
| 5 | The report is not intended to lead to new regulations but to establish an agenda for HSE work . |
| 6 | The Declaration of Puntarenas contained joint commitments to ( i ) strengthen the mandate given to the Central American Security Commission in Antigua , Guatemala [ see p. 37526 ] , on arms limitation and troop numbers while recognising the " specific tasks " of armed forces in supporting the civilian authorities for the implementation of " social and environmental protection programmes " ; ( ii ) to establish a five-member committee of eminent Central American civilians appointed by " national reconciliation commissions " to verify the political commitments made as part of the Esquipulas II or " Arias " peace process [ see pp. 35440-42 ] , and to seek multilateral and bilateral support to establish an Association for Democracy and Development in Central America to promote regional peace , democracy and economic development ; ( iii ) to build on the progress made under the Economic Action Plan for Central America ( PAECA ) [ see p. 37526 ] , extended by the UN General Assembly for three more years , in order to realize a Central American common market ; ( iv ) to begin talks on a comprehensive Central American customs and tariffs policy by March 31 and to have a regional " anti-dumping code " in place by Dec. 31 , 1991 , and an effective and uniform custom and tariffs system by Dec. 31 , 1992 ; and ( v ) to persuade multilateral lending agencies to promote increased regional development and integration programmes , to write off significant portions of debt and reschedule the remainder in line with the " economic realities " of the region 's countries and to simplify mechanisms for the negotiation of and disbursement of future loans . |
| 7 | In other cases , the decrees seemed to provide an opportunity for insurance against other possible future decrees . |
| 8 | The conference director , John T Masterson , says that the conference is intended to provide an opportunity for professionals and students to exchange communication ideas . |
| 9 | The festival is pleased to provide an opportunity for audience and musicians to meet in the beautiful 12th-century church known as the Spurriergate Centre which serves a wide range of delicious foods and is renowned for its vegetarian dishes . |
| 10 | I have for long been concerned to provide an opportunity for children to revise their choice of school between the ages of 11 and 13 . |
| 11 | They are intended to provide an opportunity for pupils of all abilities to show what they can do in realistic activities that themselves contribute to learning . |
| 12 | To provide an opportunity for pupils to use and extend inquiry and communication skills developed in class work . |
| 13 | Aims are to provide an opportunity for industry and the University to meet , and assess each other 's needs , and for industry to find out what we are doing . |
| 14 | On the Poll Tax , they rejected non-payment but failed to provide an option for people except NUNGE , nothing until the next general election . |
| 15 | This is , in effect , recommending that most rents should rise in order to provide an inducement for landlords to relet empty property . |
| 16 | A decade ago huge sums were invested in the construction of the BAM railway to provide an infrastructure for exports to Japan and the US . |
| 17 | In Oz David Widgery took time off from musing on the revolution to provide an obituary for Jack Kerouac , one of the people with whom the entire movement had started . |
| 18 | It therefore seems clear that in order to found an action for breach of confidence the defendant must have obtained the information as a result of a disclosure by the plaintiff in circumstances of confidence . |
| 19 | The trust 's first action will be to launch an appeal for Namibia , which is trying to rebuild after years of war . |
| 20 | The Club plans to launch an appeal for funds this year to build an urgently needed climbing wall in the Sports Centre . |
| 21 | First , it was not sensible to launch an application for inspection of the liquidator 's report or to seek for that purpose an adjournment of the examination being conducted under section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 22 | The next step is for the lessor to make a court application to obtain an order for possession . |
| 23 | In reading the bundle of documents relating to this appeal , both before , during and since the hearing before me , I have wondered whether attention was not focused almost as much on the father 's wish to obtain an order for costs against the local authority as upon the important question of making for these children the best decision that was available . |
| 24 | Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause . |
| 25 | The creative process came cheapest in the ‘ Billboard Arts Project ’ , for which the BBC paid famous artists £1,000 apiece to create an image for display on advertising hoardings . |
| 26 | The second objective is to set an agenda for discussions ( in a seminar or workshop ) which will facilitate collaboration between existing bibliographic agencies and to suggest new means for the collection of data on African scholarship so that it might be more widely known . |
| 27 | Litigation between 1974 and 1978 concerning the need for an ambient air quality standard for lead resulted in the EPA being ordered to set an NAAQS for lead ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 28 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 29 | But otherwise , on the principle stated by Lord Lane C.J. in Reg. v. Galbraith [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1039 , if the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of its reliability , the magistrate is entitled to act upon that evidence in deciding whether there is sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal . |
| 30 | Gagnon and Simon suggest that : ‘ To earlier societies it may not have been a need to constrain severely the powerful sexual impulse in order to maintain social stability or limit inherently anti-social force , but rather a matter of having to invent an importance for sexuality' . |