Example sentences of "[verb] for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just come back er ladies and gentlemen to apologize for this morning 's cock up , I mean it was totally inexcusable of me . |
| 2 | Another pervasive , and important , influence for this head was technology . |
| 3 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 4 | The main proof Van Laue offers for this argument is the polarisation of society between global conflict and a backward society that made a liberal constitution impossible . |
| 5 | In the case of the 1,800 which Book Trust received for this year 's Smarties Prize , they found good homes . |
| 6 | The fall in pocket money received for this age group contrasts with a rise from £1.40 a week to £1.48 shown in a Halifax survey of the under-12s last month . |
| 7 | You 'll be working for me next year , but who do you fancy caddying for this year ? ’ |
| 8 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 9 | What on earth was she supposed to wear for this evening with Dane — this evening that was n't exactly a date , yet she could think of no other description for it ? |
| 10 | ‘ How far have we got to swim for this competition ? ’ |
| 11 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 12 | David is consequently punished for this action . |
| 13 | Delegates from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth told a meeting in Manchester hosted by a group of ‘ nuclear free ’ local authorities that they would be pressing the Government to ensure the money is not diverted for this purpose . |
| 14 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 15 | And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first . |
| 16 | I believe that we have got to go for this strategy if we are continue to fight the freedoms which are the root of our yachting . |
| 17 | Equipped for racing , ready to go for this season . |
| 18 | But , even allowing for this handicap , Irvin and Martin found that university astronomers were not happy with the ‘ inflexible ’ administration of the telescope by the Royal Greenwich Observatory . |
| 19 | But allowing for this criticism , the test seems to be workable . |
| 20 | Allowing for this element means that the average income from farming per full-time equivalent may be about £9,000 per annum . |
| 21 | After allowing for this subsidence there are no significant residual gravity changes between June 1991 and June 1992 , except at the summit crater where there was a decrease of 80μGal . |
| 22 | Meetings already arranged for this year include ‘ Changes in the wind — the end of the traditional British holiday ? ’ and ‘ The retail and catering consortium ’ . |
| 23 | No I will not want for this company again . |
| 24 | There remains one last letter dated September 1767 amongst those examined for this chapter . |
| 25 | Although the authority given for this proposition , Robinson v Mollet , concerned the effect of a trade custom rather than an exclusion clause , it highlighted the unacceptability of changing the substance of a relationship without the fully informed consent of the other party . |
| 26 | The reason given for this change is that there was recent wide coverage in the press of the case of an American paramedic who succeeded by fraudulent means in obtaining limited registration from the council . |
| 27 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 28 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 29 | Three reasons were given for this policy : to check further growth of large built-up areas ; to prevent neighbouring towns from physically coalescing , and to preserve the special character of some historic towns ( Elson 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting . |