Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This doctrine enables a lessee to sue for any trespass committed between the granting of the lease and his entering in pursuance of it . |
| 2 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 3 | But it was n't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy good home cooking — stews with dumplings and meat pies with pastry crusts and steamed sponge puddings , and there was no money to spare for proper hairdressing salons . |
| 4 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
| 5 | Trevor East , the new producer of The Match , explains the decision to wait for late autumn : ‘ People are reluctant to watch televised football or anything else on a sunny afternoon . |
| 6 | They were thought to have gone to the course to search for lost golf balls . |
| 7 | The principal strengths of the human information processing system lie in its ability to make selective use of available visual cues and to utilise an understanding of the text to compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 8 | In many areas the indicator taken by the LEA for extra funding to compensate for urban disadvantage is the number of children registered for free school meals . |
| 9 | Also , because smoking tends to be associated with a lower body mass index , our inability to adjust for any confounding due to body weight will have tended to result in an underestimation of the effect of smoking . |
| 10 | He is the only person in opposition to plan for greater unemployment as a matter of policy . |
| 11 | It was accepted that there had been no deliberate attempt to claim for unauthorised travel , but it was obvious that the regulations had not been publicised effectively , and the section head took steps to ensure that they were more widely circulated to prevent any further occurrences . |
| 12 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 13 | The trade unions fear that wage demands may have to be lowered because of the refugees ' greater flexibility and readiness to work for less money . |
| 14 | ‘ Having read your manifesto I feel bound to add that your racist policies , your opposition to aid for third world countries , and your proposals for the quarantining of those carry the AIDS virus are deeply repugnant to the Christian consciousness . ’ |
| 15 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 16 | On July 23 the Soviet Union made public its intention to apply for full membership of the IMF and the World Bank . |
| 17 | And Jesus was going across to the other side to look for this man . |
| 18 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 19 | And I 'm not so sure that portrait is the best possible erm medium to use , or the best possible photograph to use for this type of er trick . |
| 20 | The level of rent to qualify for full Housing Benefit subsidy will be determined according to locally operating market forces . |
| 21 | But , more than that , the People 's Plan is an attempt to allow for incremental growth and change . |
| 22 | Hence we should expect the Andrade equation to hold for small temperature increments only . |
| 23 | These factors along with demographic trends and recent events in Eastern Europe are likely to have more influence on labour mobility than the legislation programme to allow for free movement of labour . |
| 24 | This is always dangerous because at that moment the glider has insufficient speed to allow for safe recovery and landing . |
| 25 | It is possible to modify these various statements of the no-arbitrage condition to allow for continuous compounding . |
| 26 | This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling . |
| 27 | Museums should be rewarding learning environments , and any attempt to settle for mass popularity alone is to sell museums short . |
| 28 | The government needs some tax revenue to pay for national defence or its budget contribution to the European Community . |
| 29 | At this point I persuaded her to part with a small sample of blood to check for glandular fever and to see that she was n't anaemic . |
| 30 | Nobody in the workshop has a good to say for that machine . |