Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid the raging debate around the asylum law , which the CDU has manipulated to account for Germany 's plight , voters also pinned the source of their frustrations and fears on the presence of ‘ too many ’ foreigners in Germany . |
| 2 | Mussels , for instance , do not need to go to look for food , as most animals do ; the organic debris they feed upon is wafted in by the tides ( or the river estuaries ) . |
| 3 | And however much she loves her mother , the daughter who has undertaken to care for her in her old age is , in some instances , taking on one of the toughest and loneliest jobs on earth . |
| 4 | As you will see from this description of the account executive role in your account group , the agency has to try to allow for different levels of contact with your own organization . |
| 5 | Other countries have used systems of this kind with success and the Government have concluded that the time has come to ask for powers to adopt a system of early release on licence in this country . |
| 6 | There must be some hidden sexual factor involved , as though the soft-furred ( and therefore sexy ) cat has come to stand for sexual violence and rape , via its savagely sharp claws and canine teeth . |
| 7 | Forced on to what she really meant to say , Kate fumbles for words , absurdly feeling she has to simplify , patronise in order for him to understand her in a language foreign to him , that she must not hurt his feelings , he is part of the oppressed majority , colonised daily by the people she has come to work for . |
| 8 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 9 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |
| 10 | Anfield manager Graeme Souness has decided to opt for his more experienced third keeper over £1.3 million signing David James in the bid to overturn a 4–2 Cup Winners ' Cup deficit against Spartak Moscow . |
| 11 | The Lake District National Park Authority has decided to charge for organised recreational events , particularly orienteering . |
| 12 | But on the basis of these latest extremely encouraging results , the joint venture has decided to apply for an exploitation licence in the Laurenzana permit area . |
| 13 | Wade , whose sixth place in the 1500 metres was the best showing by a North-East athlete at the World Championships in Tokyo last year , has decided to head for Aberdeen instead to face Dorovskikh in this summer 's first major televised event , the Grampian Festival of Road Racing . |
| 14 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 15 | This impressive Grecian building , designed by Thomas Hamilton in 1825 , has helped to gain for Edinburgh the description of the Modern Athens . |
| 16 | The money Sara has received from newspapers as a result of libel actions has helped to pay for that care . |
| 17 | Japan has had to settle for second best . |
| 18 | This terrorist activity brought home to Americans what the United Kingdom and , more recently , the city of London has had to tolerate for years . |
| 19 | A student theatre has had to close for four months because of the risk of fire . |
| 20 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 21 | In Sweden , government prevention policy has been directed to heterosexuals , so that the gay movement has had to look for its own information . |
| 22 | The theatre like most other organisations have actually looked for savings and this this trust has had to look for seventy thousand pounds savings . |
| 23 | The freeze on spirits duty acknowledges , if it does not yet rectify , the wholly unjust domestic tax regime against which the Scotch whisky industry has had to struggle for years . |
| 24 | His job is so delicate that to ring birds like this Bill has had to train for two years under the watchful eye of a certified ringer . |
| 25 | The man in charge of Gloucestershire 's schools has had to prepare for the worst — though he hopes a compromise will be reached : |
| 26 | Millionaire Mohamed Al Fayed , the owner of Harrod 's , has offered to pay for Rhys 's treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 27 | It 's the only thing he has offered to pay for . |
| 28 | This type of badgering has got to stop for everyone 's good . |
| 29 | Guy Fawkes has got to answer for , has n't he . |
| 30 | Yes he 's built a business up and I 'm not denying him that er or anything at all , But somehow now er I do n't know whether the wheel is turning too fast for him to co keep up with it or whether it 's erm oh never mind the erm the industry of the locality , providing the money stakes a I know every business has got to pay for itself and that we we 're not , If this quarry was on the down grade and er er somebody had come to us said , look unless you take a drop in your wages er we ca n't survive that would be a different issue altogether . |