Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb base] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |
| 2 | The increase in resources that we propose for the Health Service in I 989 will enable the NHS to extend its remarkable record of achievement . |
| 3 | He will know that we propose for the sake of speed and practicality to use an existing valuation register , which everyone agrees exists and can be used . |
| 4 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 5 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 6 | The usual convention is to choose the reference point at infinity and choose the corresponding potential ( a ) = 0 , so we get for the potential of a point charge |
| 7 | Now Lord we ask that the peace that you promise that passes our understanding will keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and in its Son , your Son , our Saviour Jesus Christ and we ask for the blessing of you , of the Father upon us , as we continue to serve in your name . |
| 8 | And we pray for the refugees of our world , asking that those who have the power and ability to help may have the resources and will to provide food , clothing , shelter and a permanent home . |
| 9 | The motions of such a body can be calculated classically using Newton 's Laws of Motion , if we assume for the moment that the restoring forces in the connections are of the form where χ is a displacement from equilibrium . |
| 10 | If we write for the quantity of goods transferred from site i to site j ( ) , we are faced with the constraints , for each i = 1 , … , m , . |
| 11 | If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards : |
| 12 | If we look for the fashion that 's the veneer , it 's the meaning that 's the more important . |
| 13 | We can continue debating their demise , while we wait for the day when European taxpayers rather than farmers finally call the day on the common agricultural policy . |
| 14 | While we wait for the pendulum to swing : Gail Counsell warns that house prices could take years to recover after the latest rise in interest rates |
| 15 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
| 16 | While we wait for the doctor 's diagnosis the patient may easily die . |
| 17 | We have to talk before we leave for the office . ’ |
| 18 | Even an ideal concept of income or consumption does not necessarily represent differences in opportunity sets ; and when we allow for the deviation of observable income , or consumption , from the ideal measure , the problems become still more severe . |
| 19 | The relationship between k and r is one that can not be guaranteed to hold when we allow for the heterogeneity of capital , as the debate on ‘ 'reswitching ’ has brought out ( see for example Bliss , 1975 , and Harcourt , 1972 ) . |
| 20 | And perhaps we should exercise this idea , this thought when we pray for the salvation of people . |
| 21 | I 'll keep the boy close by me when we look for the treasure ; then , when we have both ship and treasure , we 'll persuade Jim to join us , and give him some of the treasure for all his help . ’ |
| 22 | But for a little moment Martigues still stands , and we drink coffee on the quay as we wait for the boats to come in . |
| 23 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
| 24 | As we prepare for the future , we thought we 'd take a few minutes to look back — at the first ten years of Central News . |
| 25 | It is now getting dark as we settle for the night in the German slit trenches and I share a trench with three French Commandos . |
| 26 | Internal baffles or risers restrain the fabric gores to hold shape where practical , otherwise a central spine and spar structure is employed as we show for the Shark . |
| 27 | As we show for the export of electronic components in chapter 4 , such seemingly independent exporting has its hazards . |
| 28 | as we sprint for the shelter of the Blue John Mines . |