Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 2 | Much work might remain for the clergy both in imposing a code of Christian morals , and in determining where the line was to run between what could and what could not form a respectable part of the Christian life . |
| 3 | Changes must be made to the attack for the first Test at Old Trafford next month but pacemen Andy Caddick , Paul Jarvis and Chris Lewis now have just one more chance to prove they should remain for the Ashes opener . |
| 4 | Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute . |
| 5 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 6 | He has n't , got to wait for the things to come the , the bed and the car and er they have n't ordered a carpet yet |
| 7 | We went out to wait for the others . |
| 8 | So I sat down beside her to wait for the others . |
| 9 | The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals . |
| 10 | The only way to change the Court was to wait for the justices ( of whom there were nine ) either to die or retire , and appoint replacements who would support the New Deal . |
| 11 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 12 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 13 | To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 14 | If you er , if the people of West Sussex a couple of weeks ago , when there was flooding around Chichester , they 're actually going to wait for the waters to evaporate . |
| 15 | But then , instead of making a hasty retreat , they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions . |
| 16 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 17 | When Terry was ready , and everyone had been in to have a look , exclaim , and , in the case of Terry 's mother , cry , she ushered them all downstairs to wait for the cars . |
| 18 | These salads come into production faster than traditional lettuces as there is no need to wait for the plants to mature . |
| 19 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 20 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 21 | A successful team blends these different roles together so that the strengths of one compensate for the weaknesses of another . |
| 22 | It 's too classical for rock ; too improvised for the classics . |
| 23 | Hanson 's Peabody subsidiary is criticized for the effects of its coal mining activities on Navajo land in Arizona . |
| 24 | It took the place in mid-twentieth century demonology that masturbation filled for the Victorians . |
| 25 | He found the bag of bread and sultanas that Philip had filled for the pheasants . |
| 26 | In a multiprogramming computer system , then , we have a number of processes competing for the resources of the computer , such as main storage areas , processor time , and access to transput devices . |
| 27 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 28 | The competition was tough with 304 UK projects competing for the honours . |
| 29 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 30 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |