Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | the Distributor ceasing to carry on business for any reason whatsoever |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 3 | You ca n't , you could n't say right we 'll do a function for hundred and fifty and two hundred , and really to do , you 've got to be looking to do a , a sit down function for two hundred |
| 4 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 5 | Suspicious of the ‘ two-tier ’ contracts used by some American carriers to drive down pay for all , strikes are threatened over the holiday weekend of May 28th . |
| 6 | It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel . |
| 7 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 8 | Turning now very briefly to the H One D the Greater York issue , clearly the comments I 've made about the calculations for York have a knock on effect for our position on Greater York , the Greater York figures as I understand it from the County Council are based on a one hundred percent migration assumption , if the technical difference between us er we are right then we believe clearly the Greater York figure should be increased by an appropriate amount , and the we 've suggested the increased cut should be seven hundred er relating to the city itself I ca n't calculate with any great accuracy what the figure for the surrounding parts of Greater York might be , but it would be we suspect only another one to two hundred more on top of that , therefore that underst explains the reason why the City Council suggests that the Greater York should be increased to the ten four figure from the nine seven . |
| 9 | If you remain silent the nightmare will continue for Edward and Joan McDermott who want only justice for an innocent little boy whose young life was snuffed out in a moment of senseless savagery . |
| 10 | ‘ With your permission , I 'd like to use your warehouse as a staging area and base of operations , while we secure the area and send in protection for other American interests in the city . ’ |
| 11 | Please send in copy for the summer issue of FYT News as soon as possible . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have a bath and then nip over home for my dancing shirt , ’ said Otley , looking at me . |
| 13 | At the same time , the deterioration in Sino-US relations in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the improvement in US-Soviet relations during 1990 had added further impetus for a US policy revision . |
| 14 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 15 | It was the first time that the men 's and women 's championships had been combined and I think that Marea Hartmann , the Secretary , was trying to drum up publicity for her side of the event . |
| 16 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 17 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 18 | The yacht will also host a number of ‘ sea days ’ , used by the Government and trade associations to drum up business for Britain , before and after the tour . |
| 19 | The Royal Yacht Britannia will be used for part of the tour and also to host a number of ‘ sea days ’ , used by the Government and trade associations to drum up business for Britain , before and after the tour . |
| 20 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 21 | The pope was still trying to conjure up support for Otto . |
| 22 | Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims endorsed the Christian monarchy whose laws promised both security for ecclesiastical wealth and firm support for the church as an institution with its own hierarchical structure , as well as investing Charles 's kingship with new forms of legitimacy , Hincmar , as he wrote proudly to the pope , regularly supplied the military aid he owed to the king . |
| 23 | 9.40 : We start to write out diary for OU . |
| 24 | The fieldworker presented the research quite accurately as a study of the neighbourhood , including its language , without singling out language for particular comment . |
| 25 | Cos you 're filling up the weeder bin and I want well anyway , we we 've got to get sorted out compost for it . |
| 26 | Read out aloud , it seemed to bear out word for word what Alfred Wells had recalled on oath in court . |
| 27 | That 's the um general er consensus in most of the things I 've read in trying to find out stuff for this lecture . |
| 28 | He had carried out work for Palmerston at Broadlands in 1856 , and in the dedication of his book , Architecture Numismatica , published in 1859 , he described Palmerston as ‘ the enlightened advocate of classical architecture ’ . |
| 29 | Roderick O'Sullivan , who has carried out research for programmes such as Channel Four 's Fragile Earth , said he was concerned that a mystery disease which wiped out half the swan population at the bay last winter had re-emerged . |
| 30 | If the business buys goods for resale , or components for assembly , the terms on which it buys should be considered : to what extent is it possible to pass back liability for defects in those goods ; can the business recover an indemnity from its supplier against any liability it incurs to third parties , or is such liability excluded ? ( 3 ) Who are the business 's customers ? |