Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 3 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 4 | It has been a fashion among Opposition Members — indeed , this was reported by the hon. Gentleman tonight — to suggest that the access funds alone are intended to compensate for the withdrawal of benefits generally and that the £25 million , which he correctly quoted , must , therefore , be inadequate . |
| 5 | from the process of the regular review of departments and faculties by ad hoc review bodies , which always include strong external representation ( this formal review procedure has recently been amended to provide for the review of all departments and faculties on , approximately , a ten-year cycle rather than , as previously , simply associating reviews with the impending retirement of a head of department ) ; and |
| 6 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'd probably need to go for a week in the Bahamas afterwards , just to get over it . ’ |
| 8 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 9 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 10 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 11 | Emergency University classes on a small scale have been organised , and some 3,000 students are expected to enroll for the University for June next , but only a small proportion of the University buildings can be released by the Army . |
| 12 | And then he said , ‘ You want to come for a ride in the car ? |
| 13 | 2.1 PSD modules are designed to provide for the development of skills and behaviours identified in the aims of the Action Plan ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 14 | In 1974 an attempt to begin to restore self-government through a new Northern Ireland Executive , elected by proportional representation to try to provide for the involvement of the Catholic minority in government , was brought to an end after a strike by Protestant workers . |
| 15 | Similarly , in an effort to reach an accommodation with women trade unionists , the NUSEC rejected the traditional nineteenth-century feminist opposition to protective legislation , pledging to work for the extension of such legislation to men rather than opposing it for women . |
| 16 | In other words , does public investment follow private , and thereby exacerbate such unevenness , or does it act to compensate for the lack of private capital ? |
| 17 | The drama session ends with the railway engineer offering contracts of employment to those townspeople who want to work for the railway on the construction of the line . |
| 18 | It was also expected to work for the coordination of economic and monetary policies and the harmonisation of fiscal and social policies , and of law . |
| 19 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |
| 20 | Confronted with a murder charge , defence lawyers resolved to try for a verdict of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility . |
| 21 | He could not lecture for the Archbishop of Canterbury because he was already committed to lecture for the Archbishop of York . |
| 22 | It should be noted that although the total population over 65 is not expected to increase for the remainder of the twentieth century , this is due to a projected fall in the numbers aged 60/65–74 ( by 5 per cent between 1981 and 1991 ) combined with a rise in the numbers at older ages . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State will remember my exchanges with the Prime Minister in respect of volunteering , so he will understand my regret at the reduction in opportunities for those who want to volunteer for the TAVR in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | As yet we have no agreed criteria for how much disruption a single lesion needs to cause for the system to be deemed interactive , although common sense suggests that an interactive system would be much more vulnerable to disruption than the brain appears to be . |
| 25 | One car is expected to sell for a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 26 | WinServers are expected to sell for an average of £40,000 to £50,000 in the UK — prices are n't available until the systems are ready to ship — and will be offered with Oracle 7.0 , Microsoft SQL Server and other database options . |
| 27 | I SUPPOSE I should be cheering myself hoarse that Britain has finally produced a heavyweight fit to challenge for the championship of the world in the person of Lennox Lewis . |
| 28 | If you think you do n't qualify , you may need to apply for a divorce in the ordinary way and you should consult a solicitor . |
| 29 | If the purchaser is a listed company it is likely that it will need to apply for a listing of the consideration shares . |
| 30 | If the purchaser is a listed company it may need to apply for a listing of the consideration shares . |