Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [indef pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the water is available , a licence is issued , which gives the conditions under which the water can be taken , but , if there is insufficient water , the authority can refuse a licence or issue one for a smaller quantity . |
| 2 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |
| 3 | In other words the states of mind that do nothing for the healing process . |
| 4 | Fortunately , modern enclosures are slowly replacing these cages which are cramped and provide nothing for the animal . |
| 5 | I 'll go and do something for an hour . |
| 6 | can if you want , in the it 's not that far to go around and use one for the whole day . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll go and fix something for the kids ’ supper , ’ Leo offered . |
| 8 | Perhaps we would fling pride aside and ask someone for the price of a cup of tea , actually intending to spend it on that . |
| 9 | Sell all , retire to an obscure lodging and do anything for a living ? |
| 10 | When he finished , the DDI sat back and said nothing for a while , just digested it . |
| 11 | Inspector Aziz looked at her , and said nothing for a minute . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not the woman-hater who juggled eight women and kept lying to them all and kept them on a string and had one for every night , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Jesus challenged the Jews of his day with a searching question : ‘ How can you have faith so long as you receive honour from one another , and care nothing for the honour that comes from him who alone is God ? ’ |
| 14 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 15 | And getting a permit for a waste-to-energy plant is every bit as difficult as getting one for a landfill in most places . |
| 16 | Faced with the demise of their traditional courses , and with a government anxious both to increase the skills of the new unemployed young , and to be seen as doing something for the unemployed , colleges responded by mounting a programme of full-time non-vocational , or pre-vocational , courses . |
| 17 | This necessity for innate leadership qualities may affect these managers judgement when choosing someone for a supervisory job . |