Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 2 | I do very little research apart from general reading and looking at guides — to be frank , there 's not enough money involved to pay for extensive on the ground or air research . |
| 3 | The lock cut seemed to last for ever , narrowing though , with high dark trees on the left ; finally , blessedly , on the right , there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock to the lower level of the river below . |
| 4 | The coronation seemed to last for hours , but I managed to say and do all the right things . |
| 5 | Her mouth opened to scream for help , but the sound emerged as a strangled groan as she realised the mind-numbing truth . |
| 6 | The equation needed to adjust for practice demography will be difficult to validate . |
| 7 | This study in a large population of patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome aimed to search for a differential pattern of gastric endocrine cells between patients with sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome and those with the syndrome and MEN 1 , and to establish whether there is a real predominance of ECL cell tumours in the second group . |
| 8 | The law of the land saw to it that gentry who did not conform to the new religion had to pay for the privilege . |
| 9 | Between 1956 and 1960 the association had to fight for the right to enter the Big Berlin Exhibition as a separate group . |
| 10 | But the home side had to settle for a winning draw after St George 's finished on 175–7 , despite a 2–55 return from 16-year old slow left arm bowler Howard Jones on his debut . |
| 11 | Sam Llewellyn 's family charter on the Lycian coast had to cater for all tastes , including those of a budding rock and roll band |
| 12 | Just as the Central Swiss communities around the Vierwaldstattersee had to struggle for their independent rights against the Austrian Hapsburgs , their confederates to the west of Bern had to confront the might of the Burgundian realm . |
| 13 | After the plaintiffs had failed to complete the work by that date , the defendant continued to press for delivery but , on 29 June , gave notice that , if the work was not completed within a further four weeks , he would cancel the order . |
| 14 | At least the priest had to pay for his position with celibacy and prayer . |
| 15 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 16 | Jesuit leaders said , however , that those on trial had been " scapegoats " and that the search had to continue for those high up in the military who had masterminded the operation . |
| 17 | The haemoglobin concentration continued to fall for two days after his admission , reaching a nadir of 61 g/l . |
| 18 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 19 | The witnesses would say later that the searingly brilliant white flash seemed to last for several seconds . |
| 20 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 21 | In 1954 the Nordic Council agreed to work for as comprehensive a Nordic common market as possible , and a committee was set up to study the question . |
| 22 | At a meeting in Edinburgh earlier this week of the cross-party European Movement , its Scottish Council agreed to campaign for PR in line with the system operated in Northern Ireland , even if England and Wales retained the first-past-the-post system . |
| 23 | Provision must be made for emergencies and a degree of flexibility maintained to allow for changing circumstances , such as the introduction of a new subject or course . |
| 24 | When fellow platoon-members wondered why they were there , fighting primitive jungle wars nobody at home seemed to care for when men were walking on the moon , North could not understand them . |
| 25 | After two decades cotton came to account for a third of the increase in manufactured exports from 1784 – 6 to 1794 – 6 . |
| 26 | Quite simply , there is too little equipment installed to account for the levels of unemployment . |
| 27 | The National Committee of the Guild decided to apply for " sympathetic affiliation " to the Young Communist International and at the Norwich conference of May 1934 , the Guild ratified this decision by 18 votes to 12 . |
| 28 | On Aug. 12 the UN Security Council decided to renew for a further 120 days the sanctions which had been imposed against Libya in April [ see p. 38883 ] . |
| 29 | Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower . |
| 30 | The agricultural sector managed to provide for the food needs of Japan 's growing population . |