Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 2 | And yes , a district general manager should 've resigned because he had an interest in the decision to go for the Trust status . |
| 3 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 4 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 5 | Other agreements with Japan in 1989 included projects to search for the burial place of Chingis Khan and for development in the Gobi desert . |
| 6 | 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. ) ? |
| 7 | She feels the worst part of being unemployed is her inability to plan for the future . |
| 8 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 9 | This has resulted in a general failure on the part of local education authorities to plan for the promotion of community languages across all phases of the education system . |
| 10 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 11 | Not only has the arid nature of the land inspired successive rulers to create the most exquisite and luxuriant ornamental gardens in their palaces and towns ; it has also spurred generations of textile artists to compensate for the harshness of their environment by weaving emblems of foliate abundance into their rugs . |
| 12 | At the moment teams still seem interested in my services , but it , at the end of the season , the opportunity to try for the Championship no longer exists , then , no question , I shall step aside . ’ |
| 13 | This was firmly rejected by the staff-side reps , who have maintained throughout the negotiations that the original agreement on LW should be adhered to , that it should be considered separately from the rest of the negotiations , and that LW needs to be a flat-rate , across-the-board payment to compensate for the costs incurred by working in London . |
| 14 | But I have no plans to write for the theatre . |
| 15 | The touchdown came with only one second left when Michael Haynes jumped among a crowd of defenders to catch for the victory . |
| 16 | In conjunction with the necessity to provide for the transition from estate duty to CT . |
| 17 | He subsequently offered to supply free electricity to Czechoslovakia to compensate for the loss of generating capacity from the plant . |
| 18 | If the tax base is too small to support the welfare burden , there is not enough money to provide for the demand of welfare services and people have to do without . |
| 19 | Dr Thomas Beddoes , a Bristol physician at Hotwells , told him of an opportunity to write for the Morning Chronicle in London , and Coleridge , with a heavy heart , almost accepted the editor 's ‘ very handsome offer ’ . |
| 20 | Some are the head of the family with husband and children dependent on their salary some are single parents and some rely on their income to provide for the shortfall in their partner 's earnings . |
| 21 | Or , as Niall Fitzduff put it , the community ‘ is not to be destroyed at the whim of mining company ’ while nothing could ‘ compensate us or the generations to come for the loss of our community ’ . |
| 22 | The General , scenting victor , turned his horse to search for the infantry Colonel who had refused to attack the bridge and whose military career was therefore finished . |
| 23 | The report of the Review Body on Civil Justice said the Council ‘ should enable the judiciary to plan for the allocation of High Court caseloads and judge power in the light of needs and resources of that court as a whole rather than of individual Divisions . |
| 24 | They 'd stopped in Port Patrick harbour to wait for the tide . |
| 25 | In the years that followed , Mary 's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field . |
| 26 | On May 8 Martin Shikuku , interim secretary-general of the party , declared his intention to stand for the presidency . |
| 27 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 28 | In an attempt to compensate for the reduction of Soviet aid the government made serious efforts during 1990 to improve economic relations with its Asian neighbours , including Thailand , Indonesia and Taiwan . |
| 29 | News of the donation reached the UK press by June 6 and prompted a hostile reaction , as it was interpreted as an attempt to compensate for the killing of a policewoman , Yvonne Fletcher , outside the Libyan People 's Bureau in London in April 1984 [ see pp. 33004-05 ] . |
| 30 | The children need to be taught to move head and eyes to compensate for the field loss . |