Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether preparing solo meals , feeding a family , or cooking for your own enjoyment — here 's everything you need for superb results ! |
| 2 | ( 2 ) To require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) To require any other person ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 4 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 5 | In fact , there are many reasons why families fail to stay together or to provide for their children adequately , reasons that include the stress of ill-health , unemployment or irregular employment , low pay , poverty and deprivation , bad housing and a poor environment and low levels of social support . |
| 6 | Is the first aim to make money ( we must obviously avoid losing it ! ) or to provide for our personal needs ? |
| 7 | If you are considering a new boat or retrofit rig you 'll want to know more , just write , phone or fax for our product literature , to arrange a meeting or to organise a tender . |
| 8 | Or send for our brochure . |
| 9 | Are they ever sacked , or disciplined for their blunders ? |
| 10 | In the forests of Dean , Windsor , Cannock , Sherwood , Essex , Inglewood and Galtres the warden took the lop and top , and sometimes the bark , of oaks given by the king , or felled for his use . |
| 11 | An issue that typically divides them — and caused the largest opposition group , the Democratic Party , to split at its congress last month — is whether to compromise with the Communists or to work for their complete removal . |
| 12 | oh , what you going to try some of this or wait for your whisky and lemon ? |
| 13 | Great literature is only partly the reflection of a particular year or generation : it is also a timeless thing , which can never become old-fashioned or out of date , or depend for its importance upon historical considerations . |
| 14 | He prefered doing quiet things like throwing stones in the water or looking for his parents . |
| 15 | The employee therefore see his involvement in a union , or support for his union , to be the best means of securing his personal objectives ( eg. through extra pay or shorter working hours ) or the employee may consider that his own goals would be furthered better by loyalty to senior managers in the organisation and acceptance of the organisation 's goals . |
| 16 | Who would have thought that the Coca-Cola bottle in your fridge today could turn into a fibre tomorrow to make carpet backing or filling for your anorak ? ’ |
| 17 | But she could not see it as such and indeed it could be said , on her behalf , that not a single object had been purchased or positioned for its decorative value . |
| 18 | Editing or writing for your school or college magazine is also valuable . |
| 19 | She had the feeling she must either give in to that showy and heady beatification or run for her life . |
| 20 | For any moment of weakness in the fortunes of a great house — the minority of William the Conqueror , the early years of Fulk le Réchin — provided the perfect opportunity for castellans to establish their hereditary rights , or to exercise for their own benefit prerogatives which had hitherto brought profit to the princes . |
| 21 | will not attempt to register or use for its own benefit , or aid any third party in attempting to register or use , the Trade Marks or any trade mark the use of which would constitute an infringement of 's Trade Marks . |
| 22 | It is always a dodgy business , sacking a manager or calling for his sacking . |
| 23 | At least , if she was unhappy , or fretted for her family , she did n't say so . |
| 24 | It may not appoint a legal guardian for the child or consent to an adoption order or an order freeing the child for adoption or providing for his adoption abroad ( s33(6) ( b ) ) . |
| 25 | So too wealth should be used as a means to good ends , but never be sought or enjoyed for its own sake . |
| 26 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 27 | The planting was organised by the Merton Group in memory of those imprisoned , tortured or executed for their beliefs . |
| 28 | Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system . |
| 29 | Or ask for our separate leaflet . |
| 30 | Were it otherwise , it would follow that a man who assaults his wife purely in order to enforce her duty to maintain him , or to care for their children , should be similarly exempt from criminal liability . |