Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B : ‘ We have to shop for food every other day . |
| 2 | If the foundation of the UGC stands as an attempt to relate narrowly-based civil institutions to the concerns of public policy and national agency , the proposals contained in the Newbolt Report represent an attempt to provide for English a similar link with national policy . |
| 3 | For example , an employer who envisages having to slim down his work-force in the future , perhaps after introducing new technology , may offer those who are prepared to resign rather than to wait to volunteer for redundancy a financial inducement , perhaps exceeding state redundancy pay . |
| 4 | The police came , brusquely sympathetic as they assessed the damage and then informed Fran that there would be men sent out to dust for fingerprints the following day . |
| 5 | On a final afternoon in which lesser mortals might have wanted to run for cover the European team fought on even though at times its causes seemed hopeless . |
| 6 | The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period . |
| 7 | Had the student acted without regard to either of these considerations , then the act of admission to residential care might have come to represent for John an aggressive act against him rather than one which was intended to be supportive . |
| 8 | Mobil Badger is to offer for license a novel technology for reducing the benzene content of light reformate , the Mobil benzene reduction process . |
| 9 | Earlier I said we must n't miss a trick , and I would like to offer for consideration a possible strategy for the future . |
| 10 | In the glow of this new power , erotic love and spiritual love are somehow conflated ( in a way that seems finally to overcome for Prince the apparent mutual antagonism between sensuality and righteousness that has hitherto perplexed him ) . |
| 11 | These were the occasions which enabled them to display for hours the rigid immobility for which they were famous throughout Europe . |
| 12 | Such an effects-based approach is seen as being more efficient in that it is likely to capture for investigation a greater number of anti- competitive agreements and fewer of those that are innocuous . |