Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was pleased with the support received for the practice of joint confirmation and particularly , welcomed the first ever united service for Christian Unity week . |
| 2 | All the keywords can be left in the configuration file , as the parameter given for the keyword HCMAP dictates whether a volume set will be prepared for hard copy or omitted from the hard copy run . |
| 3 | Work began in January 1991 on the construction at Crotone in Calabria , southern Italy , of the air base intended for the United States F-16 fighter-bombers which were being withdrawn from Spain . |
| 4 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 5 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 6 | ‘ Bowlers allus goes for the man as is buildin' a ninnins. 'E 's the one they fear . |
| 7 | Committee meetings had taken place at fortnightly intervals ever since early in the nineteenth century , but now , in view of the fact that there was a war on , the local government board asked for the meetings to be held monthly , a suggestion that was accepted with alacrity . |
| 8 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 9 | With ten minutes to go , Paul Whittington did well to tip the ball over the Milton bar on two occasions as Lane pressed for the equaliser . |
| 10 | Royal Aberdeen Golf Club had a more original way of observing its 200 years existence with a Royal Aberdeen Bicentenary Whisky blended for the special birthday occasion . |
| 11 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 12 | And yes , a district general manager should 've resigned because he had an interest in the decision to go for the Trust status . |
| 13 | Edward 's first responsibility was for the receipt and expenditure of the money assigned for the operations , a responsibility discharged through a special exchequer set up in 1246 , over which he presided . |
| 14 | We have stayed within the requirements of our banking covenants for the past eight consecutive quarters . |
| 15 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 16 | During the ninth century a struggle developed for the souls of the Slavs between the two Christian confessions , the Eastern Church based in Byzantium and the Western Church based in Rome . |
| 17 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 18 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 19 | Suppose , father being impoverished and son having come into money , the father had required the creditor to sue for the whole sum ? |
| 20 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 21 | She feels the worst part of being unemployed is her inability to plan for the future . |
| 22 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 23 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 24 | received a thirty two point seven million pound increase from the Government compared to last years ' i revenue support grant and this does n't include the additional money given for the Community Charge . |
| 25 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 26 | The EC has also contributed to the restoration of the MountAthos monastery , to the reconstruction of the Chiado area in Lisbon , destroyed by the 1988 fire , and to the renovation of a building of the Coimbra University intended for the European College . |
| 27 | A popular edition is a version of a text intended for the general rather than the academic reader . |
| 28 | This model assumes that an individual accepts the first job whose wage dominates the benefit level adjusted for the disutility of work ( see ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) ) . |
| 29 | Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent . |
| 30 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |