Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] for [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bouverie was a solicitor , Peter said , but he had wanted to be a priest , had intended to try for ordination if cancer had not prevented it . |
| 2 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 3 | Marriage was expected to last for life and adultery and fornication were punished in the ecclesiastical courts . |
| 4 | Furthermore , even with this sample we have noted that many were either pressured to present for help or ambivalent about the helping regimes . |
| 5 | This allows them to build without hindrance places d'armes on the Japanese islands against the Soviet Union and those countries of Asia which have risen to fight for liberty and independence against the forces of imperialism and reaction . |
| 6 | We were we were instructed to dig for victory and so we 've got er erm a gardening guide And a book that I 've also got called We 'll eat Again which is full of war time recipes . |
| 7 | The issue system will issue and discharge books and items in the normal way but can also be used to search for information and to produce overdues . |
| 8 | All the 650 headquarters staff were told to report for work as normal . |
| 9 | While the principals are required to confer the benefits of the various employment protection laws upon their employees , they themselves are deprived of any such security , and must pay the special tax for self-employed people masquerading as national insurance , in addition to the insurance premiums needed to provide for retirement or illness . |
| 10 | When the bare minimum market value is offered to compensate for disturbance or injury , disputes inevitably ensue , with professional advisers saying , ’ This is too little ’ and the proposer saying , ’ It is about right ’ with the inevitable delay that results . |
| 11 | Its wording on financial compensation , moreover , fell well short of UK suggestions that frozen Iraqi assets could be used to compensate for loss or damage suffered by Kuwaitis ( the Kuwaiti central bank governor having estimated on Oct. 17 that a restored Kuwaiti government would seek $12,000 million in compensation for looting , theft or damage ) . |
| 12 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |
| 13 | The purpose of the apparatus was to file world trade marks in such a way that they could be easily produced to check for similarity and prior registration . |
| 14 | Many companies have already found that to maintain commercial confidentiality they have had to register for VAT and appoint agents in other member states just to comply with the new reporting regime . |
| 15 | Interviews Most candidates are not interviewed , but a candidate may be invited to attend for interview if the Admissions Committee feels it would be particularly helpful . |
| 16 | Around Oz , The Little Red Schoolbook , Last Exit To Brooklyn , the ‘ experts ’ would again be summoned to testify for liberalism and freedom of expression , but the cases would become inextricably blurred with others , about drugs , and , by 1972 , about political challenges to the state . |
| 17 | She was compelled to sue for peace and under the terms of the Treaty of Paris was disarmed on the Black Sea . |
| 18 | Decisions on pits which will survive will be left to British Coal , which has also been asked to prepare for privatisation as soon as legislation can be put in place . |
| 19 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 20 | But the fumes seeped in until she was forced to gulp for air and she plunged into a deep and haunted sleep . |
| 21 | Two hundred drinkers were forced to run for cover but she was unable to get clear and caught the full force of the blast . |
| 22 | Leaping over fallen worshippers , Ace made for the sedan chair , but was forced to dive for cover when Richmann appeared from behind it with the Winchester drawn . |
| 23 | The second scheme , the Mobility Mortgage , allows borrowers forced to move for work or family reasons to transfer their existing mortgage , including the negative equity part , to a new home . |
| 24 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 25 | All candidates are required to attend for interview and practical tests at some mutually convenient time . |
| 26 | A business is required to register for VAT if at the end of any month its turnover in the past twelve months exceeds £36 600 . |