Example sentences of "[vb infin] for the [noun] in the " in BNC.

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1 Whatever sympathy one might feel for the restaurateur in the present case ( or for any other defendant who might suffer economic loss , social ostracism , shame or intimidation as a result of publication of details pending charges which may or may not result in his conviction ) nothing in the present case comes close to satisfying Lord Diplock 's test .
2 During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 .
3 It does n't seem like it if you consider some of the most recent press reports : endless bickering about which London group will bid for the Olympics in the year 2000 ; the decision for the 1992 Games not to allow the slower marathoners to finish in the stadium because they will interfere with the closing ceremony ; Charlie Francis 's cynical opinion that most of the world 's top athletes are on drugs .
4 We need some new notation to describe extra rows and will write for the element in the jth column of the z k -row .
5 This forced the defender to chase back and dive for the ball in the mud .
6 This , together with improvements in diet and exercise and also in the average man 's or woman 's physical environment throughout the century , may account for the decline in the death-rate which has continued to take place in recent years for those who have already reached middle age ( see Table I.6 ) .
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