Example sentences of "[to-vb] for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 2 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 3 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 4 | Therefore the seller will be unable to sue for the price unless , at the time of the neglect or refusal to pay , he was ready and willing to deliver . |
| 5 | In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 7 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 8 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 9 | Amazingly , he only got the chance to go for the try because Cardiff players over-ruled skipper Mike Hall . |
| 10 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 11 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
| 12 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 13 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 14 | Under Biset 's orders they were to search for the evildoers and those who harboured them , and do whatever was necessary to maintain the king 's peace in those parts . |
| 15 | The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects . |
| 16 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 17 | ( There was of course little incentive to plan for the future when work was often obtained on a casual basis and wages were irregular . ) |
| 18 | On March 28 as every year , ex-servicemen of the North will gather at Morrisons in Darlington to bowl for the Roland and George Bradford trophies for the honours of their Messes . |
| 19 | I would like to thank for the enthusiasm and commitment she has given to her ante-natal classes and I know that past ‘ students ’ will have been greatly reassured during their pregnancies by , appreciated her teaching and enjoyed her sense of humour . |
| 20 | I hope you will be able to arrange for the removal and disposal of this vehicle or if not perhaps you would let me know who can . |
| 21 | The foregoing Committee shall have full power to arrange for the nights and subjects , and also to fix the nights for Magic Lantern Entertainments . |
| 22 | Erm t th certainly it makes me really angry that people have to struggle for the basics and I you know I I just do n't see how people who are on long term benefits , erm state benefits , can survive without getting into serious debt . |
| 23 | Lenny Campion ran forward and Sorvino hung back , ready to sprint for the car if this should be a trick to shake them off . |
| 24 | er yes I was saying erm they only had the midwives in them days did n't they , to come for the birth and that and anyway my mother was was ill enough to have to send for a doctor . |
| 25 | We had to make a hollow in the mud , and we lay there like swallows : we used to long for the dark so we could stand up and straighten our legs . |
| 26 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 27 | The procedure was designed to compensate for the fact that the electoral register is not a very complete list of individuals ; it therefore depended on whether the adults resident had changed since the register was compiled . |
| 28 | This is a real gift to the declining Italian tourist industry , which needs the country 's cultural assets to be made more accessible if it is to compensate for the fact that mass tourism has migrated to cheaper , less developed shores . |
| 29 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 30 | Where the expert clause establishes the identity of the expert conclusively , it will not be necessary to provide for the selection and appointment of the expert . |