Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If the seller can not maintain an action under section 49 , he may still have a claim for damages which he can bring under section 50 ‘ where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods . ’
2 ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract .
3 Her husband died in 1909 but Mary Sumner continued to write and speak for the Mothers ' Union , taking a keen interest in all that was being done .
4 6.5 Each Party shall be entitled at the completion of the Project to require delivery up of all copies of any information originating from it except information which the recipient in each case has a right to retain or use for the purposes of clause [ Exploitation of Results ] .
5 … the excessively mechanical use of Codes of Practice … is unlikely to result in a satisfactory design in the hands of a designer lacking the experience to appreciate and allow for the peculiarities which each individual structure inevitably exhibits .
6 The rest of us had to scrape and scrounge for the girls , Michael , but whatever you had they always fell into your hands like ripe plums . ’
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