Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 2 | The local authority has arranged for the twins to attend some kind of daycare centre . |
| 3 | And how did you know to go for the dolls ' bed ? ’ |
| 4 | We want to provide for the children 's cognitive development , yet do not wish to assess them by something they are not fully competent in : the English language . |
| 5 | So while the practice of resignation has been re-established , it is still true that ministers are not expected to suffer for the shortcomings of their staff . |
| 6 | The time has come for the politicians to face up to their responsibilities , ’ Mr Rocard said . |
| 7 | In Women and Psychology ( Williams 1979 ) , for instance , Ladner 's paper ‘ Growing up Black ’ , which describes the specific experiences of growing up in US cities in the 1960s , has to stand for the effects of both ‘ race ’ and class on gender . |
| 8 | He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates . |
| 9 | Moreover , such a demonstration would produce an accessible shop window of ‘ green ’ street environments which could have just as dramatic an effect on the way we think about our public spaces as it has done for the Germans . |
| 10 | As with the Faculty scholarships , overseas students will be expected to apply for an ORS award . |
| 11 | Todorov , who has 20 caps , is expected to play for the reserves tomorrow against Derby and will train at the ground today . |
| 12 | If one wants to look for the origins of conflict in modern America , one could do worse than line up the eighteenth-century Puritans against the Enlightenment men : say , Jonathan Edwards ( 1703–1758 ) , Samuel Davies ( 1723–1761 ) and Timothy Dwight ( 1752–1817 ) versus Benjamin Franklin ( 1706–1790 ) , Thomas Jefferson ( 1743–1826 ) , Thomas Paine ( 1737–1809 ) and James Madison ( 1751–1836 ) . |
| 13 | Forget junk food : soon we 'll be forced to clear the rest of the rainforest , just to provide grazing for the cattle needed to clothe the queue outside London 's posey Friday-nighter Glam . |
| 14 | Jacques Attali , the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , has called for the agreements to be scrapped . |
| 15 | The coalition has condemned the last minute scrapping of UP and has called for the cuts to be reversed for 1993–94 . |
| 16 | EVER since Geoff Cooke told Neil Back that he was too small to play for England , the Leicester flanker has reached for the stars — and flattened most of them . |
| 17 | Contrary to popular belief , you do not have to know what you want to do for the Careers Service to be able to help you . |
| 18 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
| 19 | Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth . |
| 20 | We 've had three goals with just over twenty minutes gone , has scored for the visitors on the fourteen with a brilliant shot , a brilliant header on twenty , and a minute later the penalty has brought Notts back , looking out of the game , was the player pushed , the referee consulted the linesman , had no hesitation and ends the goal drought for himself , will leave on the bench |
| 21 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
| 22 | Miss Wilson , who has worked for the auctioneers for 25 years , suspected it was worth more than its modest £1,200 estimate . |
| 23 | Further , the acceptance of the need for rearmament connected with the Korean war on the part of the parliamentary leadership led to a damaging split within the party , with Bevan and Wilson resigning over Gaitskell 's budgetary measures designed to pay for the arms . |
| 24 | Under the Institute 's standards , for example , training organisations are expected to pay for the students ' first examination attempt . |
| 25 | There may be some discontinuity in policy occasioned by governments of different political persuasions pursuing different paths , but that is the price — an acceptable price — one has to pay for the advantages offered by the existing system . |
| 26 | Although the Library has to pay for the discs , no further costs are involved in searching . |
| 27 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 28 | Ask the local authority 's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels . |
| 29 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 30 | Airtours will not say how much it has paid for the leases , though it claims to have secured good terms because of the uncertain travel market . |