Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two meet at the Showgrounds this Saturday to play for pride — and players for places — in the final game before the Irish League campaign gets underway . |
| 2 | Some places to go for help are : Street Agencies , Needle Exchanges , Drug Dependency Units , Community Drug Teams and Narcotics Anonymous ( NA ) . |
| 3 | All the more dispirited as they entered Blue Horizons , they discovered that somehow Joe 's dabs , bought with enthusiasm this morning to prepare for luncheon , failed to seem so attractive . |
| 4 | And there then this was discontinued in they gave this beer to keep for lack of exercise keep them regular . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal heard that a witness whose evidence sent another man to jail for murder in 1988 had been bribed by police . |
| 6 | I shall certainly be using this incident to press for priority to be given to a Skelton and Brotton bypass . ’ |
| 7 | If Warner Bros felt some duty to argue for justice in their films there were people in other studios who thought that the vogue for realistic films could be used to condemn radicalism and militancy . |
| 8 | You use this form to apply for leave and must submit it in advance to your manager . |
| 9 | The definitions and expansions of various words can then be compared with this list to check for membership . |
| 10 | It 's costing half a million pounds this year to pay for bed and breakfast . |
| 11 | Thus only the infinitive is part of the verbal system , and to is an element brought in from outside this system to provide for incidence to a support seen as occupying a place in time before the beginning of the event . |
| 12 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 13 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 14 | The government could also be tougher on benefits for invalidity and long-term sickness , whose claimants have multiplied even though national health has improved , and on payments to lone parents , who have too little incentive to look for work once their children reach school age . |
| 15 | Because of the potential seriousness of gonorrhoea or syphilis , if left untreated , nearly all the clinics in the United Kingdom have on their staff contact-tracers whose prime aim is to ensure that all efforts are made to persuade possible contacts of patients with either disease to attend for investigation . |
| 16 | Having reached the limits of the contractual arrangements with local purchasing consortia ( DHA 's ) there 's simply no more money from that quarter to pay for non-emergency treatment or operations . |
| 17 | So we 're looking at the amount we take out of her plan each month to cover for life cover . |
| 18 | We will propose appropriate Parliamentary reforms to ensure that the House of Commons conducts its business more efficiently and effectively , taking into account the benefits of modern technology , the increasing constituency demands upon Members of Parliament and the need to attract more women to stand for election . |
| 19 | Brian Meek , for the Conservatives , said : ‘ I do n't know exactly that this organisation has any right to speak for democracy in Scotland , nor do I believe that it 's an all-party organisation … |
| 20 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 21 | It is quite anomalous therefore that SI 1991 489 regulation 3(c) makes specific provision for any person to sue for breach of Core Rule 28 ( or a comparable SRO insider dealing rule ) . |
| 22 | There are several ways to save for school fees but whichever method you choose it is best to start eight to 10 years before the first child enters school . |
| 23 | No when used to get music for the Women 's Own choir to do for Mothering Sunday , she used to say keep quiet where you got the copy from . |
| 24 | It is felt that if the Government did lift the veto , it would be obliged to allow any company to bid for Jaguar . |
| 25 | We are too preoccupied with our own thoughts to listen for understanding . |
| 26 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 27 | A further complication may be that any sideslipping to correct for drift may cause the ASI to under-read so that the speed may have to be judged . |
| 28 | During the mid-Seventies a major study in Burkina Faso ( then Upper Volta ) investigated the reasons why hundreds and thousands of young men leave the country each year to look for employment in Ivory Coast . |
| 29 | People who get attendance allowance get that allowance to pay for attendance , and home help is attendance . |
| 30 | Most refugees have little time to prepare for life in a new country . |