Example sentences of "to run for " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Commission sources , the US negotiators have recently offered the EC 7 per cent of the market in a new agreement to run for two and a half years . |
| 2 | He 's fit and ready to run for his life . |
| 3 | In the report CNP calls for a number of proposals including — abandoning the 1998 deadline for renewable energy subsidies ; enabling grants to run for 15 years from the start of any one project ; issuing planning policy guidance on how to deal with planning applications , and giving encouragement to offshore wind generation which they claim could provide 50% of energy needs . |
| 4 | How the fuck are you supposed to run for a bus in this was what I thought — a bit more down-to-earth than Malcolm and Vivienne . |
| 5 | To run for St. John Ambulance simply complete the form below and send it in to our Marathon team . |
| 6 | DARREN HALL , seemingly able to run for ever , won the Oracle English National Championship for the fourth time in five years at Crawley last night . |
| 7 | SITTING in the antechamber to his congressional office , Stephen Solarz , the loquacious representative for New York 's 13th congressional district , is taking a five-minute lunch break and wondering whether to run for president . |
| 8 | It is interesting that Cairns saw the pressure for ministers to run for office coming , not from ambitious ministers , but from party activists who thought that certain ministers would make good political leaders . |
| 9 | A ‘ Coronation ’ tram , No 1174 , swayed into view and he began to run for the stop . |
| 10 | from when your time begins to run for presenting any complaint to an industrial tribunal ; |
| 11 | Irrespective of the use of surrogates , monitoring environmental processes only makes sense over time-scales which are extended by human standards ( hence the IGBP ( see below ) is designed to run for two or three decades ) ; |
| 12 | The Midland Guaranteed Capital Bond is a unit-linked single premium life assurance policy designed to run for five years . |
| 13 | ‘ He used to be a very useful runner in his younger days , ’ Joe explained , ‘ used to run for the Gloucester Harriers so they say . |
| 14 | The flow pattern , and allowed to run for many years of simulated time , generating a sequence of day-to-day ‘ weather ’ , |
| 15 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |
| 16 | THE local artists ' exhibition which has been occupying Oriel Court , an empty office block on Omega Park , Alton , since March 16th , is to run for an extra week — until April 3rd — due to popular demand . |
| 17 | Although the project is due to run for another year , the county council 's planning department hope information will be made available this summer . |
| 18 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm here to run for myself , ’ I said . |
| 20 | After being defeated by the Roundheads at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 , the future King was compelled to run for his life , and this was how he came to Boscobel . |
| 21 | Then she wrenched away , meaning to run for it , but Midnight was too quick for her . |
| 22 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 23 | Stockings were never long enough and the tension between suspender and stocking-top would result in spring-loaded legs ; if you had to run for a bus , the legs would keep going for three stops . |
| 24 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 25 | Julie , it is believed , tried to run for it , back along that treelined path Elizabeth had snapped . |
| 26 | Railway No. 3 was to run for over a mile across the open space known as Mitcham Common and was intended as a link between Mitcham and Croydon , with little expectation of intermediate traffic . |
| 27 | Anyone aged 18 or over can open one Tessa , to run for five years . |
| 28 | As a last resort , Griselda tried to run for it , but of course her bootlaces were tied together so she fell flat on her back . |
| 29 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 30 | He was a financial and moral pillar of the Catholic Church , and Mary Rose devoted herself to committees and fund-raising when he decided to run for the Senate . |