Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 2 | The procedure was designed to compensate for the fact that the electoral register is not a very complete list of individuals ; it therefore depended on whether the adults resident had changed since the register was compiled . |
| 3 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |
| 4 | Another old argument is that ‘ manly sports ’ help to keep people fit to fight for the Crown if necessary , whereas fights which involve maiming rob the Crown of able-bodied men for the armed forces . |
| 5 | The level of futures price was included to control for the possibility that , as the futures price rises , its variance also rises . |
| 6 | Both self-employed , and having the required skills , the two set about raising the £150 they would each need to pay for the journey as well as the tools and materials they would need . |
| 7 | This is the price that an investor has to pay for the possibility that the share price may change to make the option in-the-money . |
| 8 | Applications are usually expensive , often costing several hundred pounds ; after all , someone has to pay for the advertising and the glossy box . |
| 9 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 10 | Those prepared to fight for the principle that stories which advance the public interest should be published are usually vindicated . |
| 11 | The latest item of aggravation comes from the traffic and drivers on the commuter rail line who have threatened to strike for the day because of the extra work caused by the opening of Disney station . |
| 12 | I would like to thank for the enthusiasm and commitment she has given to her ante-natal classes and I know that past ‘ students ’ will have been greatly reassured during their pregnancies by , appreciated her teaching and enjoyed her sense of humour . |
| 13 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 14 | If not , I would like to apologise for the oversight and thank you on behalf of CPRW . |
| 15 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 16 | We must allow ourselves time to grieve for the past but the guards had no such time . |
| 17 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 18 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 19 | If this is how the young child construes what is happening , it could begin to account for the response that four-year-olds typically give . |
| 20 | STEVE OJOMOH flies to Lanzarote with the England squad this week sensing he is fated to play for the country that tried to deport him . |
| 21 | Part of the Christian 's responsibility is to understand and be able to express what and why he believes or , as the apostle Peter expressed it , ‘ Be always ready with your defence whenever you are called to account for the hope that is in you . ’ |
| 22 | In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers . |
| 23 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
| 24 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 25 | Authorities concerned over rural depopulation have attempted to provide for the consumer and cultural needs of rural dwellers , but the drift has persisted . |
| 26 | A new range of private law orders was introduced to provide for the care and upbringing of children . |
| 27 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 28 | such permanent staff continue to work for the Council if they wish to do so ; and , where possible , |
| 29 | Gilman employed ‘ scientific ’ experiments described by him as follows : ‘ The observer , an intelligent man with good eyesight , and well accustomed to museums and their contents , was instructed to answer the questions with the least possible exertion and to hold the position he needed to assume for the purpose until he could be photographed . ’ |
| 30 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |