Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
2 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
3 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
4 | An example of a limitation clause is where a supplier of computer software limits his liability for faulty software to the licence fee he has received for that software . |
5 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |
6 | And who wants to fall for that ? |
7 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
8 | ‘ She has to go for some more treatment , ’ Jack Foley said . |
9 | As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors . |
10 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
11 | All have doctorates in musicology from either Cambridge or Oxford ; two are currently associated with King 's College , Cambridge ( where the wellsprings of the English a cappella renaissance are to be found ) , and one has taught for several Oxford colleges that are also medieval choral foundations . |
12 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
13 | The move , by the new coalition of Liberals and Christian Democrats , satisfies the Dutch confederation of industry , which has lobbied for more support for industrial R&D and innovations . |
14 | SINGER Dannii Minogue , 21 , has fallen for former Home and Away star Julian McMahon . |
15 | Such orders put into the shade the contracts British Telecom has placed for single-mode fibre . |
16 | ‘ I suppose the great Dane Jacobsen never has to search for willing company . |
17 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
18 | The promotion means farewell to the Northern League middle , in which Winter has officiated for six years . |
19 | Sir David is a long term supporter of Save The Children and has sat for many years on the industry and commerce group . |
20 | The question of Mr Brown 's achievements has become more pressing because of a Californian term-limits law ( yes , another initiative ) which will eject him by 1996 from the assembly where he has sat for 27 years . |
21 | The Committee has pointed out that nothing is more foolish than to have timetable motions introduced after a Committee has sat for some sessions , perhaps debating the first two or three clauses of a Bill , and then , the guilloting having been introduced , the rest of the Bill — perhaps 60 , 70 or 80 clauses — is rushed through with hardly any debate . |
22 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
23 | The National Union of Teachers has voted for possible nationwide strikes in protest at the planned introduction of performance-related pay . |
24 | Meanwhile Labour has voted for one miserable saving — doubling pensioners ' concessionary fares . |
25 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |
26 | encourage movement in your opponent 's position by : summarizing the course of negotiations so far , suggesting that the time has come for mutual concessions suggesting a new position which represents a different point of departure for both parties linking two or more issues since ‘ it might help us get nearer a settlement ’ suggesting an adjournment indicating the exact area to which you want your opponent to pay attention |
27 | With adverse publicity about the failure to establish a development programme in the black townships and a renewal of sanctions from the ANC now inevitable , Botha believes that the time has come for ageing administrators like Danie Craven to step down . |
28 | Perhaps the time has come for another name to be engraved on the trophies . |
29 | As published in the newspaper Borba on Dec. 15 , 1989 , this document announced that " the end has come for authoritarian socialism " and stated that the LCY supported freedom of assembly and speech and all other civil liberties " regardless of political convictions " . |
30 | What inspires him at the moment is the once-in-a-lifetime trip to the US that he has organised for 40 Lebanese orphans . |