Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] for its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that with regard to the explicit curriculum , RE has to fight for its life — constant vigilance is the necessary price it pays for retaining any foothold at all in a curriculum groaning under the weight of other priorities . |
| 2 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |
| 3 | If any object is damaged the government undertakes to pay for its repair or , if it is lost , for its replacement value . |
| 4 | His analysis was a taste of what is to come from the Left : Labour should have promised drastic defence cuts to pay for its spending plans . |
| 5 | Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will . |
| 6 | But his definition of style , like Jakobson 's of poetry , fails to allow for its multiplicity and changeability , even if it points to an important possible source of literary effect ; and in his claims concerning readers ' responses he attributes to these a degree of regularity which to many must seem quite unrealistic . |