Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you overdraw your account without telling us , or if you exceed your CheckOver limit , there will be a £10 administration fee to pay for that quarter , for the additional work involved . |
| 32 | The union 's national executive is calling for a ‘ yes ’ vote and is likely to ask Nottinghamshire businesses to close for the day when a strike is called . |
| 33 | They came the Friday night to go for the midnight mail you know the one that comes to meet the boat . |
| 34 | You can also use the Search facility to look for bits of names . |
| 35 | Bosnian Serbs meanwhile allowed two stranded aid convoys to head for Gorazde and Sarajevo , but another convoy intended for the besieged Muslim town of Srebrenica remained stuck at the border . |
| 36 | He had an increasingly long key chain to show for his years of service . |
| 37 | TENNIS legend Bjorn Borg has been served with a £21,000 a month maintenance claim to pay for his estranged wife 's household staff . |
| 38 | So Pete and Diane left the rail and stepped out of the boat house into the mild spring air to wait for him . |
| 39 | Graham Chapman gave Wingate the lead only for David Appleby to equalise for Cleadon to take the tie into extra time and a replay . |
| 40 | Over 50,000 people gathered in response to a opposition call to mobilize for the victory of democracy . |
| 41 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
| 42 | The clinic has acted as a strong focus for slum living mothers to campaign for improved conditions in their surroundings . |
| 43 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |
| 44 | Mr Dewar added : ‘ It is a simple revenue raid to compensate for a public sector borrowing requirement spiralling out of control to £50 billion . |
| 45 | The national and regional survey figures indicate that the large companies are in a better position than small companies to expand their export activity to compensate for a recession in the home market . |
| 46 | Taking blood samples to screen for Sickle Cell disease ; the only way to find out whether someone has the condition , or is a carrier . |
| 47 | Six of the districts used the Guthrie spot to test for cystic fibrosis , and in these districts 306 ( 37% ) of the 964 women identified cystic fibrosis ( correctly ) , compared with 42 ( 10% ) of 409 in the other hospitals , who did so incorrectly . |
| 48 | Because er most of the year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers , and then one day a year you send the little so and sos out to knock on peoples doors to ask for money er and sweets and things like that . |
| 49 | you can use the Search option to look for HALIBUT.TXT . |
| 50 | The inability of the PPP — dominated provincial government to handle the crisis led opposition politicians to call for its immediate dismissal and prompted the army to press in June for full emergency powers to check the spiralling communal violence . |
| 51 | The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter . |
| 52 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 53 | He said : ‘ I believe my attitude and fitness have both improved since I signed for Wednesday , and I 've got the boss and coach Ritchie Barker to thank for that . |
| 54 | LENTA organised parties of business people and senior ILEA personnel to see for themselves the achievements of the Boston Compact . |
| 55 | Not only has the arid nature of the land inspired successive rulers to create the most exquisite and luxuriant ornamental gardens in their palaces and towns ; it has also spurred generations of textile artists to compensate for the harshness of their environment by weaving emblems of foliate abundance into their rugs . |
| 56 | ‘ We went to local council meetings to ask for support from the councillors rather than try to stop the hunt meetings , ’ she adds . |
| 57 | In February 1991 the Bundestag agreed to grant modified " group status " to the PDS and the Alliance " 90/Greens ( elected in eastern German Länder ) , even though these parties had not won sufficient seats in the December election to qualify for status as a " parliamentary group " . |
| 58 | How can we be sure that employers do n't use Work Experience to cover for unfilled vacancies ? |
| 59 | Irving had studied the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act proposals to legislate for interrogation and prisoner control . |
| 60 | The impossibility of maintaining a minute to minute control of larger staff will inevitably cause complications during any roll-call attempt to account for every person . |