Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 2 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 3 | In Darcy 's Utopia there will be elections , but people will be expected merely to vote for people they personally like . |
| 4 | Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes . |
| 5 | It 's a shame really that no-one has come forward to apply for it , because it 's such a lovely , wonderful bungalow . |
| 6 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |
| 7 | Susan Hickey , an executive of the Bonneville Power Administration , which supplies electricity to a number of North-West states , said that the organization had decided consciously to pay for conservation measures because they were the least expensive option . |
| 8 | The cat had done well to run for shelter … |
| 9 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 10 | The British public was not prepared either to pay for the higher cost of the non-marketed sector through higher taxation rates . |
| 11 | But few Labour MPs privately believed Mr Kinnock had the appetite to continue , and a number of backbenchers were prepared publicly to call for his resignation . |
| 12 | A menu can be arranged specially to cater for various tastes and requirements , champagne starts at around £35 per bottle and there is a charge of £150 for the room hire . |
| 13 | He has travelled home to prepare for a World Championship heat in Austria . |
| 14 | Harry Mulholland also believes that a good wool carpet can be cleaned professionally to last for years and years . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the third body , the one in your garden , that 's got more to say for itself . ’ |
| 16 | It was used mainly to grind for flour and animal feed . |
| 17 | For they would have had either to vote for all the candidates on one list ( implying a commitment they rejected ) or they would have had to switch from one list to another during the voting . |
| 18 | The company had clubbed together to pay for her and Geoffrey . |
| 19 | They 've clubbed together to pay for the instalation of two video cameras , which scan the only road into the neighbouring villages of Purton and Halmore . |
| 20 | Then in 1991 VAT was raised again to pay for the reduction in community charge . |
| 21 | Manor court rolls and deeds show that families possessed small parcels of land on a variety of copyhold , leasehold and freehold tenures and that income from even the smallest holdings was often set aside to provide for dependants . |
| 22 | So I went to visit the plants for him , went to check , in his memory who can do so no longer , whether the recurrent spring miracle of the Welsh mountains was still taking place now that the man who had seemed almost to stand for its yearly renewal had gone . |
| 23 | It was obvious that not just a few houses , but whole districts including churches , monasteries , and other monuments to past glories would have to be swept aside to allow for the fill appreciation of the splendour of the glorious new order . |
| 24 | Gone early to hunt for tent , etc . |
| 25 | Asked again to pay for it , he opened the can and started to drink the lager . |
| 26 | The milk ration for children was increased specifically to compensate for the nutritional shortfall in school meals that would otherwise have occurred ; civil servants realised there would be a public outcry if the meat reduction took place and nothing was done to make up for it . |
| 27 | Experience in the US has shown that the most effective way of organising such specialist care is via dedicated sickle cell centres staffed by a range of healthcare professionals trained specifically to care for sufferers and their families . |
| 28 | Freya was facing the wrong way in the womb but her mother says she was n't allowed even to try for a natural birth . |
| 29 | A wide range of factors has been put forward to account for the urban-rural shift and its phasing over time ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 30 | Over the years , many types of explanation have been put forward to account for ‘ the facts ’ . |