Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law of the land saw to it that gentry who did not conform to the new religion had to pay for the privilege . |
| 2 | Between 1956 and 1960 the association had to fight for the right to enter the Big Berlin Exhibition as a separate group . |
| 3 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 4 | Quite simply , there is too little equipment installed to account for the levels of unemployment . |
| 5 | The agricultural sector managed to provide for the food needs of Japan 's growing population . |
| 6 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 7 | Moreover , even when funds were available , the peasantry refused to fight for the monarch : and this was true even with the growth of an expropriated landless labouring class . |
| 8 | Money flowed to pay for the war , but control of taxation lay firmly with the commons in parliament . |
| 9 | There had already been a violent expression of xenophobic sentiment earlier in the year when China 's football team failed to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 10 | They saw a few hares , two of which the tracker managed to shoot for the pot , and there were buzzards overhead sometimes , but that was all . |
| 11 | The charity continued to pay for the schoolmaster in Saltash , who fulfilled certain conditions , the sum of £6. 17s. 2d. per annum up until 1875 , when the school , run by a Mr. Williams , closed down . |
| 12 | In 1987 , the service had to compete for the hospital 's laundry contract for the first time and in 1993 , it will have to submit another tender . ’ |
| 13 | During 1990-91 the Commission continued to press for the introduction of its policy deregulating European air traffic routes . |
| 14 | A simple example will make the differences plain : suppose a testator wanted to arrange for the payment of a sum of money to a certain person . |
| 15 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 16 | After the initial failure to sell Austin Rover and Leyland Vehicles the government continued to negotiate for the sale of Leyland Bus , which was to have been sold to the Laird Group , the second largest UK bus manufacturer . |
| 17 | The bank had to pay for the account-holder 's loss . |
| 18 | In the event the vast majority continued to make for the seaside resorts in the area , leaving the conservationists to fend off the more predatory designs of farmers and water authorities . |
| 19 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 20 | Ninety nine per cent of our work was of this nature but the other one per cent of excitement seemed to compensate for the disappointments . |
| 21 | In 1983 , Forest Press decided to opt for the concept of continuous revision which means that Phoenixes and major revisions will be released as separates between editions . |
| 22 | Studies published in the National Geographic Society 's journal Research & Exploration show that the phenomenon thought to account for the warming at night — increased cloud cover — is probably caused by the warming itself and will thus continue to moderate the effect as long as the warming continues by keeping day temperatures lower . |
| 23 | My mother helped to cater for the funeral tea , which were community affairs with everyone helping . |
| 24 | For the Germans in Prague , gloating over the latest humilation for the East Berlin leadership on the eve of its birthday party seemed to compensate for the conditions of near-vagrancy . |
| 25 | The Left-wing of the party continued to fight for the adoption of socialist policies . |