Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would appear , however , that for the moment , the Qualifying School will remain in Spain , so ambitious South African golfers will need to write for invitations to European events , become affiliated members and attempt to win sufficient money from seven events to earn a full member 's place on the Tour . |
| 2 | A report on suicides at Oxford University has called for ways to be found to reduce academic pressure on students . |
| 3 | The Scottish Office has asked for responses to the consultation document by 27 November . |
| 4 | The committee also agreed to press for changes to the rule which limits the level of right-to-buy discounts in the case of newly built houses or those recently modernised . |
| 5 | Service trades offer the opportunity to create jobs quicker because they fulfil a requirement that already exists , rather than attempting to create a market for a new product and often having to wait for factories to be built and machinery installed . |
| 6 | It is quite incredible how many files lie on office floors after the case is settled waiting for costs to be dealt with . |
| 7 | Having the conduct of the drafting of the agreement is a considerable advantage because points agreed in negotiation can be reflected in the document in the way in which the lawyers drafting it prefer , and it is the other party who is always having to ask for changes to the text . |
| 8 | It would also mean that Scottish programme makers would have to bid for resources to London , where priorities might well be different from their own . |
| 9 | In prosperous districts too — most strikingly in central Suffolk — the labouring element was minimal , few assessments falling below £2 , and many people had their own smallholdings which , even if not always big enough to afford a really adequate livelihood , at least restricted working for wages to a subsidiary role . |
| 10 | In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight . |
| 11 | Some schools do provide for students to be granted a scholarship towards the cost of tuition , but there are not many endowments of this kind . |
| 12 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 13 | 3.5 Let us start looking for answers to our questions by considering certain observations that have been made about the characteristics of postnominal attributives . |
| 14 | But if Britain could not be moved towards European economic co-operation , Acheson continued to press for increases to the military strength of the West . |
| 15 | The ANC later described the de Klerk timetable as unacceptable and , rejecting his view that at least nine months of administrative preparation were required for elections , continued to press for elections to be held before the end of 1993 . |
| 16 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 17 | Although the Act does allow for children to be absent from Hearings under the circumstances already referred to , they should still be notified of the Hearing , and an explanation of why it is taking place should be given . |
| 18 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |
| 19 | Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash , which happened a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on Sunday , between a Vauxhall Cavalier and a hired minibus . |
| 20 | POLICE have appealed for witnesses to a fatal accident on the A66 as a baby girl fights for her life . |
| 21 | Police have appealed for witnesses to the accident at about 4.25pm on Friday . |
| 22 | Police have appealed for witnesses to the accident to contact them . |
| 23 | It is believed they were heading for the South Shields area when they disappeared Witness plea : Police have appealed for witnesses to a disturbance in the Albert Street and Princess Square area of central Harrogate on Friday . |
| 24 | Police have appealed for witnesses to the raid or anyone who might have seen the men stealing the car or abandoning it . |
| 25 | A Tyneside girl disliked going for dinners to her grandmother because ‘ she used to threaten us with this monkey stick , hung behind the door . ’ |
| 26 | And that video can be obtained from Tavistock Church , in Tavistock Place it costs twelve pound fifty , with one pound fifty postage erm , but I think that it has been recommended to us and a number of the provinces have asked for copies to be made available and then maybe there are some churches within our provence that might like to have that video so that they can draw the attention of their churches to the work of the Council for World Mission . |