Example sentences of "[to-vb] for a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 2 | With someone who 's not I 'd try and get them to wait for a couple of days and then if they would n't I 'd go through the and get them it today . |
| 3 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |
| 4 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 5 | There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs . |
| 6 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 7 | We need to shift to the procedure that we would probably have and a tell me if I 'm wrong I thought there was a sort of general agreement without it being sort of firmly agreed that we were going to go for a format of subject specific reports still coming to form tutor who would complete some sort of general report , is that |
| 8 | Spurred originally by demands from the Navy ( for special performance requirements , not well catered for by the US suppliers ) and by internal security needs for faster information , Brazil had determined to go for a policy of self-sufficiency in the underlying technologies . |
| 9 | It seems appropriate , therefore , to search for a way of specifying required yields which does not rely exclusively upon historic data . |
| 10 | Not long after acquiring Belle Vue Cottage she began to search for a piece of land in the Cotherstone area , preferably a fenced-i-meadow . |
| 11 | This summer he fired the £600,000 a year president of his US TV subsidiary for hiring a male stripper to perform for an audience of high-powered Murdoch executives . |
| 12 | If an SSR responds to an SPR which originated from an external client , then it is the responsibility of the LIFESPAN user who submitted the SPR in LIFESPAN to arrange for a copy of the SSR to be sent to the client . |
| 13 | If an SSR responds to an SPR which originated from an external client , then it is the responsibility of the user who submitted the SPR in LIFESPAN to arrange for a copy of the SSR to be sent to the client . |
| 14 | Where a new company is used and both of the merging companies are listed , it is not usually a difficult matter to arrange for a listing of the new company 's shares to take effect upon completion of the merger . |
| 15 | In London your pupil-master is unlikely to be able to arrange for an offer of a seat ( i.e. a room , or share of a room ) to be made to you . |
| 16 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
| 17 | Confronted with a murder charge , defence lawyers resolved to try for a verdict of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's awfully kind of you , and I should love to come for a couple of days , if I may . |
| 19 | The conversation ended the official programme of the Leeds Congress , but there was more to come for a party of about forty participants , including the President and Professor Kerney and his wife , for whom an excursion into Wensleydale by train and horse drawn wagonettes had been organised . |
| 20 | ( iii ) Building on their experience of reading and hearing a wide range of poetry , they should have opportunities , both individually and in groups , to use poetic features such as rhythm , rhyme and alliteration in verse forms such as jingles , limericks , ballads , haiku , etc. ( iv ) Pupils should have opportunities to write for a range of communicative or informative purposes including describing , explaining , giving instructions , reporting , expressing a point of view . |
| 21 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 22 | This suggests that , rather then being promptly eliminated by arbitrage , the mispricings ( before transactions costs ) tended to persist for a number of days . |
| 23 | Deprived of its mother 's constant care in those years , it will grow up emotionally handicapped , incapable of forming deep relationships and might steal in an attempt to compensate for a lack of mother love . |
| 24 | Oversupinators ( which are honestly very rare ! ) need to compensate for a lack of natural cushioning in the shoe . |
| 25 | In one way , this lack of British involvement contributes to a view that , even before the shifts and lapses of the 1930s and 1950s , Britain has always had an impoverished experimental tradition , repeatedly needing to borrow from France , Ireland , the USA or wherever , to compensate for a bankruptcy of energies in the domestic context . |
| 26 | How many people try to compensate for a sense of inadequacy or restore their personal confidence by going and buying themselves something whenever they feel miserable ? |
| 27 | Brian Harley had seemed short of inspiration too , and his putting had failed to compensate for a number of lapses in his long game . |
| 28 | Iraq rejected it , since it made no reference to the need to provide for a resumption of Iraqi petroleum sales ( currently blocked under the UN embargo ) . |
| 29 | Work on drafting a Directive specific to the mountain areas of the Community had already begun but one of the British government 's objectives during entry negotiations was to provide for a continuation of the special assistance hill and upland farms had hitherto enjoyed in the UK . |
| 30 | This could lead to neighbouring local authorities co-operating to provide for a number of full-time councillors ( Widdicombe 1986 : 136 ) . |