Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the intermediate standing of many of these men is plain to see ; the alternating qualifications of £10 in lands and £100 in goods seem specifically designed to cater for small-town merchants and the less affluent London ones , conceding statutory confirmation of the observation that they ‘ often change estate with gentlemen ’ . |
| 2 | I do not intend to speak for hours , but I should like to make a few further comments . |
| 3 | If applications have not been received five months into bodies ’ financial years it is assumed by the Council that they do not need , and therefore do not intend to apply for , grant aid . |
| 4 | I do not mean to suggest for a moment any kind of determinist philosophy here : functional rationality does not cause philosophical rationality , but it does help it along . |
| 5 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 6 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 7 | According to the current secretary of state , this principle still applies : ‘ Health authorities have a responsibility under the NHS Act 1977 to provide nursing care for those who can not or do not wish to pay for it . |
| 8 | In areas , such as particle physics , there are a large number of scientists who do not wish to work for the military . |
| 9 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 10 | We do not need to wait for the Reeve 's Tale for a fabliau in which the Miller can be identified with a target figure : the Miller 's Tale itself links its dramatic teller , the Miller , with John the carpenter as John repeats the Miller 's axiom found in the Miller 's Prologue : in his own homespun wisdom : — a valuing of ignorance which Nicholas is able to play upon ( 3558 ) . |
| 11 | Fish can not swim fast enough for long enough and so can not porpoise — but they do not need to surface for air and so can swim at depth to reduce drag . |
| 12 | Now , write down the things you definitely know you do not like to do for exercise . |
| 13 | Or are you saying that the level of provision the County Council propose for employment is excessive bearing in mind that they do not propose to cater for one hundred percent migration ? |
| 14 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 15 | We need some money we can be sure of , some money we do not have to ask for either from men or from the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 16 | ‘ We do not have to search for critical mass , ’ Sir Denys points out . |
| 17 | Students do not have to search for the ‘ ideal ’ patient . |
| 18 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 19 | The authorities do not have to wait for it to happen , however . |
| 20 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 21 | Select a place where they are easy to reach , and keep them there all the time so that you do not have to hunt for them . |
| 22 | We do not have to look for conventional biological survival values of traits like religion , music , and ritual dancing , though these may also be present . |
| 23 | The key to the success of such releases , though , is always that you do not have to pay for them with significant amounts of guilt or regret the next morning . |
| 24 | At present local NHS services do not have to pay for the care of individuals in Regional Secure Units or Special Hospitals ; they can shuffle off their responsibilities by claiming to have no suitable facilities and , in any case , such people receive little public support or sympathy . |
| 25 | Pensioners are aware that they do not have to pay for ITV or any other channels but that they are called upon to pay for BBC television programmes . |
| 26 | Tom wants someone on hand but I do n't want to ask for extra men on Boxing Day in case of trouble which might well not happen . |
| 27 | Frustrated I can not land what I want to do , and do n't want to settle for the wrong thing . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 29 | ‘ But I do n't want to go for a sail ! ’ |
| 30 | I do n't want to go for a ride ! |