Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 2 | Our servile Tongues are taught to cry for Pardon |
| 3 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 4 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 5 | Some are expected to apply for permission to reintroduce selection , joining the 150 grammar schools reprieved by Labour 's defeat . |
| 6 | If Oswestry 's bid fails Town are expected to apply for membership of Wrexham area 's Read Construction Welsh National League or Richards Builders Mid Wales League . |
| 7 | If we are to encourage reading for information , education , and enjoyment , then libraries themselves — the stock , the staff , and accommodation — need to be informative , educative , and enjoyable . |
| 8 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 9 | THE Great North Run is nearly upon us , and I am writing to ask for help in finding a runner who is prepared to run for DIAL UK , the National Association of Information and Advice Lines . |
| 10 | The GLOBAL method has been applied to solve for porosity , water saturation and the complex lithology . |
| 11 | When the contents of the database are written to tape for back-up purposes , the previous generation of tapes will be taken off-site to provide additional security . |
| 12 | In the present study no attempt has been made to account for senescence , because the amount of dead material is small . |
| 13 | How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts ? |
| 14 | For example , if teachers notice that a child or group of children are tending to look for information in books simply by leafing through them , hoping to find the information by accident , they can , at this stage , point out the use of the contents and index pages , and run through some quick games using these . |
| 15 | ‘ But why bother , I ask myself , when all you 're goin' to get for breakfast is a worm . ’ |
| 16 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 17 | Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant . |
| 18 | It 's also a good time to decide where you 're going to sit for example , in the dining room or the lounge . |
| 19 | I 'll fetch what we 're going to have for pudding cos it 's a bit bit of a cha er it |
| 20 | And I was cooking fish and chips when the siren went , and I had to turn the gas off and now they 're ruined , and I do n't know what else we 're going to have for supper … |
| 21 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 22 | Erm , could you just put your hands up if you 're doing recording for Corpus . |
| 23 | After 3 years of winning silver gilt medals , they 're hoping to go for gold this year . |
| 24 | we 've been told to prepare for frost tonight |
| 25 | The first was that the estimates of risk of death from cancer which are used to predict for radiation work — mainly from A-bomb victims — seem to be borne out by these early results . |
| 26 | BR says the increases — ranging from three to nearly nine percent — are needed to pay for service improvements . |
| 27 | If taxes are needed to pay for government spending , why do we need government spending in the first place ? |
| 28 | The reason is that s.2(3) provides that , for the purposes of s.2(1) ( b ) in this situation only , the creditor is deemed to have been induced to wait for payment . |
| 29 | I therefore pass to examine further — still in an entirely simplistic frame of mind — other theories which have been advanced to account for inflation . |
| 30 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |