Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now requires the Scots ' nerve , and more importantly their defence , to hold firm against Norway at Hampden next month to earn the point still needed to qualify for the World Cup finals in Italy next summer . |
| 2 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 3 | More mysterious , why was such a message delivered hours before the King actually decided to leave for Kinghorn . |
| 4 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 5 | The perception that a cruel savage cycle of fertility underlay all the trappings of modem life only served to emphasize for Eliot that there was a higher life , though one infinitely difficult to attain . |
| 6 | The shelf display is supplemented by an indexing system flexibly organized to allow for a variety of approaches , to lead the enquirer to the right " shelf address " and to remedy any deficiencies in the system for particular types of user . |