Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B may refuse to accept that as a repudiation by S. In that case B will be able to sue for damages for non-delivery if on December 1 S does not deliver . |
| 2 | Depending upon the kind of problem that has arisen , it may be easier and safer for you to sue for damages for breach of your contract while remaining in your job . |
| 3 | Section 303(5) provides that the section does not deprive the director of the right to sue for damages for breach of contract , if in fact he or she has one . |
| 4 | The landlord would be entitled to sue for damages for breach of covenant and/or endeavour to forfeit the lease ( although the risk of forfeiture is extremely unlikely in the current market ) . |
| 5 | Once the right to reject the goods has lapsed , the buyer 's only remedy is to sue for damages for breach of contract . |
| 6 | He was the second outgoing minister to come under investigation for corruption [ for investigation of outgoing Tourism Minister Carlo Tognoli see p. 38896 ] . |
| 7 | ‘ Enterprise democracy ’ , as the decentralised aspect of the socialist control over production by the associated producers , will never be realised unless workers begin to struggle under capitalism for control over the policy and operations of enterprises , and this means exploiting rather than rejecting outright the kind of ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals raised by the Bullock Commission , and more recently by the EEC . |
| 8 | Yes , now I can not see the logic of allowing all this leisure to catch people to come into Standlake for leisure and they put a gipsy site next door to a residential — well , no , not residential , it 's a holiday park . |
| 9 | Retention of street frontages is a trade-off developers have been willing to accept in return for planning permission . |
| 10 | A Peruvian man with drug-resistant tuberculosis was advised to come to Britain for treatment , but warned not to bring any medication in case he was stopped at immigration . |
| 11 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to work on commercials for funeral parlours , ’ he went on . |
| 13 | When the last payment was made on 12 February 1990 , it could not be said that the accountants would necessarily be benefited by a surplus of £2,310 to set against fees for work done earlier but unpaid . |
| 14 | SUN MICROSOYSTEMS PREPARES TO OPEN IN MOSCOW FOR BUSINESS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES |
| 15 | Ties with extended kin are very much a matter of personal choice ; those with members of one 's nuclear family are more enduring and more likely to lead to responsibility for care . |
| 16 | People are being asked to go behind bars for charity in the Cleveland Centre , Middlesbrough and then raise at least £100 bail for their release . |
| 17 | Population and housing growth in the more pressurized areas had been channelled into the key settlements , but the selected villages in the more remote areas were simply too small to function as foci for growth . |
| 18 | I was very concerned that the space of the north gallery would dissipate out into these side pockets , these large shadow boxes , which are too small to be rooms and too large to function as niches for sculpture . |
| 19 | It is sensible for a contractor to apply for payment for work done to a specified date to limit the amount of funding required . |
| 20 | The classic one of the unmarried daughter who stays at home to look after parents for instance . |
| 21 | If , for instance , ICI were to buy into stock for use in later months a product whose price collapsed in the meantime , the loss could amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 22 | Mr Fallon plans to ask Christopher Chope to look into plans for road narrowing and speed humps at Lakeside , Darlington . |
| 23 | Some of these uses give rise to conflict in requirements for land and in mutual interference . |
| 24 | Richard at once agreed to help in return for assistance in his immediate design , the conquest of Cyprus . |
| 25 | The sale of a business as a going concern does not attract VAT but certain undertakings as to the keeping of records are required and it is normal to apply in advance for confirmation of the exemption . |
| 26 | I started to walk on eggshells for fear of setting him off . ’ |
| 27 | To set against this trend , however , there was much evidence to support the view that the public continued to look to government for assistance . |
| 28 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 29 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 30 | Today America must be able to look to Europe for support in containing less predictable threats to the values they have in common from outside Europe . |