Example sentences of "[to-vb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco Ferrero wishes to apologize for the delay in sending out his Kayak & Mountain brochure but by now it should be on the way to all who requested it . |
| 2 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 3 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 4 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 5 | The position of a secured creditor is to be contrasted with that of an unsecured creditor who merely has a personal claim to sue for the payment of his debt and to invoke the available legal processes for the enforcement of any judgment that he may obtain . |
| 6 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 7 | Therefore the seller will be unable to sue for the price unless , at the time of the neglect or refusal to pay , he was ready and willing to deliver . |
| 8 | Has X got property rights over the goods entitling him to recover the goods ( or their value ) in priority to any other creditors of Y Ltd. , or , on the other hand , is he merely an unsecured creditor having only a right to sue for the price ? |
| 9 | In Precedent 1 , cl 5.5 gives an example of a simple retention of title clause , coupled with the express grant of a power to sue for the price , once the due date for payment has come , even though property has not passed . |
| 10 | It was held that this was a contract for sale and the plaintiffs were therefore able to sue for the price . |
| 11 | Judges initially were not amenable and denied sellers certain rights both to repossession and to sue for the deficiency . |
| 12 | In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job . |
| 13 | 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. ) ? |
| 14 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 15 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 16 | Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 18 | ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . ) |
| 19 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 20 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 21 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 22 | In the morning we have to wait for the sun to turn it to water . |
| 23 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 24 | They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds . |
| 25 | ( Of course , for my friends to stand a chance of receiving any correspondence from me means that I either have to wait for the guilt level to rise sufficiently ( which is a slow process ) , or to unearth other things to put on my list like ‘ Install central heating ’ and ‘ Decorate bathroom ’ . ) |
| 26 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 27 | However , Ferguson , despite some disappointment at Hughes ' goal ratio — he struck only 14 times in 52 appearances last season — is prepared to wait for the Welshman 's response . |
| 28 | The visitors did n't have long to wait for the opening goal . |
| 29 | A second later a tall , broad-shouldered figure threw open the rear door — clearly too impatient to wait for the chauffeur to bring the vehicle to a halt . |
| 30 | The part has an enlarged on-chip primary write-back cache rather than the write-through cache of the 80486 , which means that the CPU does not have to wait for the cache controller to copy stored data back to main memory . |