Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The appeals panel is not expected to rule for several months . |
| 32 | In cases in which pain and suffering is not expected to continue for life the court has to form a view as to how long it is likely to continue . |
| 33 | It should be noted that although the total population over 65 is not expected to increase for the remainder of the twentieth century , this is due to a projected fall in the numbers aged 60/65–74 ( by 5 per cent between 1981 and 1991 ) combined with a rise in the numbers at older ages . |
| 34 | The M two motorway remains closed between junctions five and six and is not expected to reopen for several hours . |
| 35 | He had not expected to pay for any drinks tonight . |
| 36 | So while the practice of resignation has been re-established , it is still true that ministers are not expected to suffer for the shortcomings of their staff . |
| 37 | But for the activists in the Party and its affiliates , the integratory and mobilizing functions of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ were not confined to support for current attainments , but rested on the incorporation in Hitler of the ‘ idea ’ of Nazism itself , determining future utopias to be won as well as past glories achieved . |
| 38 | No shaman was present to preside or to ask for God 's blessing upon Artai 's reign , Alexei saw , for it was a fact that there was no such thing as organised religion on this world , and even casual superstition was not permitted to interfere for long in the affairs of men . |
| 39 | Black psychiatric nurses and doctors are not permitted to care for white patients ( according to a 1984 study ) while there were no psychiatrists of ‘ African ’ descent in 1982 . |
| 40 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 41 | Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern . |
| 42 | I am just not prepared to wait for the green shoots of recovery . ’ |
| 43 | The laird of Balfunning wanted a tide waiter 's place for his son , but Buchanan was clearly not prepared to settle for promises , for he ‘ insists that he may see his son 's commision before the election ’ . |
| 44 | Not prepared to settle for this result , Gorbachev renominated Yanayev . |
| 45 | Expert groups in many Western countries have already decided to lobby for changes towards a healthier lifestyle without waiting for results . |
| 46 | When Peter Hickton was finally persuaded to stop for the day , at about seven , Charles Paris walked with the author to the pub round the corner . |
| 47 | The purpose of the apparatus was to file world trade marks in such a way that they could be easily produced to check for similarity and prior registration . |
| 48 | In fact , this was the only spectacle which Mrs Goreng had not had to contrive for the benefit of her guests . |
| 49 | Economic Man , seeing two boxes of chocolates , of which one is cheaper because the manufacturer has not had to pay for consequential damage to some third party , would choose that cheaper box . |
| 50 | The cost method is generally used to account for interests of less than 20% . |
| 51 | Could he use his influence with the Secretary of State for Defence to persuade him to hand over the Ministry of Defence buildings so that the money that the Scottish Office has allocated is not used to pay for them ? |
| 52 | ‘ I 've just had to walk for miles , ’ she said , flopping down into an armchair . |
| 53 | Customers who were not known to smile for years actually could not help making the odd comment to the cashiers . |
| 54 | It is of course very difficult for the eye to register detail when it is not trained to look for it ; it is only when true students of the Gothic , like the elder Pugin , begin to distinguish the styles of different periods , that the buildings of the past really come into focus in the novel . |
| 55 | Had not wanted to know for good and certain . |
| 56 | The ANC , while expressing delight at their decision , nevertheless continued to call for the dissolution of the tricameral parliament , which it regarded as essentially racist . |
| 57 | Religion is thus allowed to speak for itself . |
| 58 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 59 | However , candidates from overseas are not normally allowed to enrol for part-time study . |
| 60 | Out of one hundred and twenty-two horses , only three had not learned to ask for food within seven days . |