Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do very little research apart from general reading and looking at guides — to be frank , there 's not enough money involved to pay for extensive on the ground or air research . |
| 2 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 3 | Thus , the combination of the anti-Zionist conspiracy theory with pro-Palestinian rhetoric and an absence of crude , anti-black rhetoric may be seen as a tactic designed to qualify for Libyan funds . |
| 4 | Provision must be made for emergencies and a degree of flexibility maintained to allow for changing circumstances , such as the introduction of a new subject or course . |
| 5 | In some situations , the mill had to provide for substantial numbers of people for , apart from the monks themselves , there were frequently large numbers of lay brethren and servants . |
| 6 | Hours of work required to pay for everyday items , based on average wages , vary enormously : a pair of men 's leather shoes means nearly six hours work in West Germany , and 28 hours in the East ; a comparable colour television set , about 100 hours against 850 . |
| 7 | At the same time , it is evident that the bulk of the money needed to pay for urban defence had to be raised locally , although , from 1367 onwards , the king of France often allowed a quarter of the value of royal taxes raised in a town to be retained as a contribution towards it . |
| 8 | The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country . |
| 9 | Eight illegal dissident organizations joined forces on Sept. 4 in a democratic opposition group intended to press for political and economic reforms . |
| 10 | But if you , if we 're doing a rockumentary about the whole got to cover for whole , whole scene . |
| 11 | WIFE VOWS TO FIGHT FOR JAILED BRIT |
| 12 | It will quickly be recognised that on matters of fact and challenges to the exercise of discretion leave to apply for judicial review will be refused . |
| 13 | Diro 's elevation was , it appeared , the price Namaliu had to pay for continued PAP support for his Pangu Pati-led coalition . |
| 14 | If the debtor refuses to attend for oral examination he is liable to be committed to prison for contempt of court . |
| 15 | At the same time , the findings are sufficiently inconclusive for members of CLEAR , the Campaign for Lead Free Air to continue to battle for lead-free petrol . |
| 16 | That 's Life made to pay for cheap jibe against ‘ last of the Hi-de-Hi camps ’ . |
| 17 | Logic needs to account for logical relations among sentences the sort that we 'll learn about in elementary symbolic logic . |
| 18 | Only when it was discovered that some men , formerly working on the surface , were working in canteens on the lowest male rate — higher than the female rate — did the union begin to campaign for equal pay for the women . |
| 19 | I now understand that Derbyshire is planning to siphon off £5.5 million of capital spending to pay for extra redundancy and personnel costs at county hall . |
| 20 | In 1988 , thanks to an ever-larger pool of therapy clients-turned-volunteers and an ever-larger pool of contributions , the NAP managed to qualify for matching funds and place its new presidential candidate , Leonora Fulani , on the ballot in all 50 states . |
| 21 | He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash . |
| 22 | Third , different aspects of the course appeared to cater for different needs . |
| 23 | Ample opportunity appeared to exist for local people to obtain free advice on basic legal problems . |
| 24 | Various surface features on that world seem to show for certain that the planet has , in the past , enjoyed running water , but today there is none to be seen . |
| 25 | But short of a stock market crash , a hundred per cent divorce rate and the legal profession starting to work for free , I could n't see it . |
| 26 | So public housing fails to provide for personal mobility in changing relationships , or for different needs that people may have . |
| 27 | Similarly , Richard , Olivier 's son by his third and last wife , Joan Plowright , has decided to talk about his unusual relationship with his father and his own involvement with the Men 's Movement , which uses dance , drumming and storytelling to try to compensate for absent fathers . |
| 28 | The simplest proposition seemed to call for endless repetitive explanation ; her steaks had become increasingly rare , and , most tiresome of all , whenever they made love , be it after breakfast , lunch or tea , she would leap from the marital bed and turn on the vacuum cleaner , spending the next twenty minutes cleaning an already spotless house . |
| 29 | However corporacy became strained when the acute unit wanted to apply for self-governing status . |
| 30 | Normally these include the six orthogonal views as well as others that are user defined to allow for isometric or other pictorial views . |