Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system , devised by Rentokil 's Research and Development department , offers for the first time a non-chemical , twenty-four hour detection and protection system . |
| 2 | ( Three separate negotiating teams were sent to each country tendering offers for the Urengoi gas pipeline , as a result of which the FRG , much to her surprise , found herself underbid at the end of the day . ) |
| 3 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 4 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 5 | Steve Powell , who plays for the away team said : ‘ Obviously , the prison team can only play at home but they are anxious to play more friendly matches . ’ |
| 6 | He plays for the Whitehaven Tennis Club and is involved in their purchase of new tennis courts . |
| 7 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 8 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 9 | Tony , of Scarisbrick Drive , Norris Green , plays for the local East Villa club and team mates joined his father , Michael , in an all-night vigil at Walton Hospital . |
| 10 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 11 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 12 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 13 | In December a conference of donors pledged more than $1 billion in aid for 1991 , including relief supplies for the central province of Zambezia , where at least 250,000 people were forced off their land last year by rebel or government attacks . |
| 14 | First , many of the agreements governing the introduction or extension of the use of temporary workers simultaneously contained job guarantees for the regular labour force . |
| 15 | For its part , Scottish Nuclear has also embarked on a programme to reduce the cost of electricity it produces for the Scottish power companies from 3.2p per unit last year to a target level of 2.5p to ensure the operation remains financially strong and profitable for whatever the future might hold . |
| 16 | The Centre is required to become self-supporting so that it is necessary to establish links with government and the business and commercial worlds and to ensure that the programs it produces for the academic community are also attractive to the commercial market-place . |
| 17 | Despite the risks , Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring his potential , of extending the boundaries of what it means to be a seagull . |
| 18 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 19 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 20 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 21 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 22 | B — can scarcely rise , the referee is in a fit of temper , attacks P — with stool , P — chases him round ring — gong goes for the 4th round — P — still has stool so B — picks up the water bowl and with a terrific bang lands it on P's head . |
| 23 | She goes for the bold approach , transforming whole walls and courtyards with bright murals , herb mazes , whacky garden furniture . |
| 24 | Much the same goes for the British Museum . |
| 25 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 26 | the fire alarm goes for the third time . |
| 27 | It 's difficult to describe in detail without spoiling the effect for future viewers , something that goes for the whole film . |
| 28 | The same goes for the whole training initiative . |
| 29 | The same goes for the inductive reasoning by means of which scientific knowledge is derived from the observation statements . |
| 30 | ‘ He goes for the older woman ! ’ |