Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |
| 2 | Parents of children who qualified for secondary education signed an undertaking that the child would complete the course , and they could be fined if they failed to keep their word . |
| 3 | I think we 've said it before did , about David Lawrence that he , he has the ability to bowl very quickly and in that learning curve of test cricket , he 's now got to go from a , a lad who goes for five and six and all the regularly , he 's got to drop that economy rate , down to three and still take the and then he 's a test bowler . |
| 4 | Dayflower , who goes for next week 's May Hill Stakes at Doncaster , was impressive on the gallops yesterday and the step up to a mile is expected to suit her admirably . |
| 5 | ‘ Who asked for two eggs and a sausage ? ' |
| 6 | Sometime after , the Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 and Mr Kendal sent details of the North Road Station incident to the President , Prof Sidgwick , who asked for further details of Durham 's bodily state on the eventful night . |
| 7 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 8 | Aislabie , who lived for most of his adult life at Lee Place , Eltham , Kent , and at East Park Place , Regent 's Park , died at this latter residence 2 June 1842 . |
| 9 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 10 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
| 11 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 12 | In the entrance hall of he present church the 20 bronze plaques commemorate both old and young — from Desmond William Green , who lived for 6 weeks , to many who died in the fullness of age . |
| 13 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 14 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 15 | I was always the one who argued for equal ages at Ladymont . |
| 16 | In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment . |
| 17 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 18 | Exact numbers are unavailable : 2.5 to three million is the accepted figure , though 70 years of cultural and religious suppression , intermarriage and assimilation means that the real number — in Zionist terms those who qualify for automatic Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return — may be far higher . |
| 19 | So , at Royal Insurance we decided to develop a NEW high quality home CONTENTS insurance policy especially for the over 50s who qualify for lower insurance premiums . |
| 20 | So , people who qualify for maximum benefit will still have to pay one fifth of the Community Charge . |
| 21 | For those who qualify for this extra help the reduction will be equal to the community charge minus £52 . |
| 22 | Unemployment Benefit recipients with a Spouse who is not working will usually have an income low enough for those who qualify for topping-up Supplementary Benefit . |
| 23 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 24 | The claim that " The eye either functions as a whole , or not at all " turns out to be , not merely false but self-evidently false to anybody who thinks for 2 seconds about his own familiar experience . |
| 25 | Those who fought for political control after James V 's death , therefore , were fighting for far more than personal position . |
| 26 | I thank those who fought for that gift and who built the lasting institutions of NATO and the European Community from the ruins of 1945 . |
| 27 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 28 | But McMahon , who passed for 157 yards and a touchdown , ignited the Eagles ' best display for five weeks . |
| 29 | As Oliver ( 1986 ) has recently pointed out , the word was originally used in respect of those who cared for dependent adult relatives , mostly elderly people : |
| 30 | The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive , headed by a President elected for four years , the legislative branch , Congress , which comprises the Senate ( with 100 members who sit for six years , one-third being elected every two years ) and the House of Representatives ( with 435 members elected every two years ) , and the judicial branch , headed by the Supreme Court . |