Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I said to him oh er what he 's really got to get really is a cooker erm cos I said to him , I , I said to him if you really want to try and move in next week then you have n't got another week 's money to pay for that , you know |
| 2 | Ministers would be angry , too — which might explain any reluctance on Mr MacGregor 's part to push for morning sittings . |
| 3 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |
| 4 | Thus , while the Profitboss might think that the red logo has more impact , he 'll accept his boss 's decision to go for green . |
| 5 | While SWAPO 's decision to opt for English as the official language reflects a wish to avoid conflicts between different indigenous languages , relatively few people who have not been refugees know English well , and this will have to be taken into consideration in teacher training . |
| 6 | Yorkshire 's decision to opt for Sachin was an inevitable product of the school of thinking which seeks to limit the number of first-class cricketers on its committee . |
| 7 | It is not hard , however , to make a strong case for the view that unrest in a particular part of the empire in 1858 loomed large in the regime 's decision to opt for the version of emancipation which gave peasants land . |
| 8 | In the 1960s once Britain 's decision to apply for membership of the Community was blocked by President de Gaulle , WEU did serve as a conduit , no matter how limited , between Britain and the Six . |
| 9 | Greenpeace 's decision to apply for a review follows its successful private prosecution of chemical company Albright and Wilson — the first such private action taken under the provisions of the 1989 Water Act . |
| 10 | Sophia 's decision to pay for a private nurse was a super gesture . |
| 11 | But these have been relatively rare phenomena , with small , alternative media constantly struggling to survive and dependent on financial support from donor agencies due to women 's inability to pay for such information flows . |
| 12 | If anything was missing it was the special 's responsibility to ask for it , and ask fast . |
| 13 | It is the student 's responsibility to arrange for payment in full , on or before enrolment , although arrangements exist to allow self-funding students to pay in termly instalments ( see below ) . |
| 14 | It is the student 's responsibility to arrange for payment in full on or before enrolment . |
| 15 | Britain never adopted the terms of the Convention because the Government Actuary considered that it threatened to usurp the husband 's responsibility to provide for his family and because it would have resulted in the payment of higher National Health Insurance ( NHI ) contributions . |
| 16 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 17 | The Aeschylean Titan , who , to his own cost , gives man fire and thereby civilization , has an artist 's confidence in the sufficiency of his own capacities and an artist 's readiness to suffer for it . |
| 18 | During a visit by Abel Matutes Juan , the Commissioner of the European Communities ( EC ) whose responsibilities included Mediterranean Policy , Fenech Adami on March 30 , 1990 , declared his government 's intention to apply for EC membership before the end of 1990 . |
| 19 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 20 | In July 1940 Bletchley had intercepted a message from Goering to the chiefs of staff of the Luftwaffe in which was made clear Hitler 's intention to prepare for the invasion of Britain — ‘ Operation Sea Lion ’ , as it was code-named . |
| 21 | Cher ignored Sonny 's attempt to apologise for their years of bickering . |
| 22 | A speechwriter 's attempt to compensate for the public relations lapse in not going to the Berlin Wall , Mr Bush 's prime time statement went out on all television channels on Thanksgiving Eve . |
| 23 | At Hambro Life Assurance new staff moving from rented property to rented property receive : the cost of moving to the new area and a disturbance allowance at the company 's expense to look for accommodation . |
| 24 | For new recruits who are selling their old property and are buying a new home , Hambro Life pays : the cost of moving to the new area ; a disturbance allowance of one month 's salary ( half paid when the employee joins the firm , the balance when the sale and purchase are completed ) ; two weekends at the company 's expense to look for accommodation ; estate agents ' , surveyors ' , building society and legal fees , including stamp duty and an allowance of £150 per month towards the cost of accommodation and/or fares for a maximum period of three months . |
| 25 | When they arrived home , Liz quickly wrote to the curator of the castle 's museum to ask for a pattern of the dress , only to be told that it had been copied from an 1898 issue of the London Illustrated News . |
| 26 | Most wheats in his area look ‘ superb ’ and a plant 's capacity to compensate for blind sites should not be forgotten , he adds . |
| 27 | During the day , and will take samples from the ship 's hold to check for damage and also check the quantity of dust and husk in the load . |
| 28 | He replied that it was the Reporter 's job to ask for one . |
| 29 | It was the computer 's job to check for damage like that . |
| 30 | The UK government has since tried to use Acheson 's opinion to argue for an upwards revision of the 50 mg/litre limit . |