Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 2 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |
| 3 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |
| 4 | Nicholson had taken LSD , but he had first done so , he said , as a quest — an adventurous actor seeking experiences to file away for the future . |
| 5 | The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany . |
| 6 | The other source of inspiration — and indeed guidance — for the research was an experiment by William Hayward and his colleagues at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York ( Nature , vol 290 , p 475 ) , Their work on a virus-induced lymphoma of birds inspired the researchers to look specifically for the myc gene — rather than for any of the 13 other known proto-oncogenes . |
| 7 | Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear . |
| 8 | Fionnphort absorbs uncomplaining the onslaught of coachloads of tourists and pilgrims , but not today , not yet , for we are early , leaving the tourists in their boarding houses to queue irritably for the bathroom and linger over their bacon . |
| 9 | The evidence is that at the present time there is a serious lack of resources to care adequately for the number of sufferers living in ordinary housing , and that this mismatch between numbers and resources is likely to increase at least to the end of the century . |
| 10 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts . |
| 11 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts |
| 12 | Send the form to your local social security office , and you 'll be sent claim form BW 1 to be completed in order to receive the book of orders to cash in for the widow 's allowance . |
| 13 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 14 | The baby 's attention is drawn to the potty before being placed on it : the aim was to teach the babies to reach out for the potty to indicate they wanted to use it . |
| 15 | It suggests to me a little remarked aspect of dress and fashion : the ability of well chosen , beautiful garments to stand in for the body . |
| 16 | I 'll try and get some mates to help out for the crack . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I prefer it if men find ways of dressing to enhance their personality rather than using clothes to make up for the lack of one . |
| 18 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 19 | It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment . |
| 20 | The party 's candidate , Dr Laurence Kennedy , 43 — a hospital consultant whose family was held at gunpoint last November by Republican terrorists who broke into their Holywood home — was at the forefront of a lengthy battle to force the Conservative hierarchy into allowing Northern Ireland 's Tories to campaign officially for the party of government . |