Example sentences of "we [verb] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 2 | ‘ We asked for permission during the day and could n't get it , ’ Vincent protested . |
| 3 | But beneath his flippancy was a real sympathy for what we were trying to do and an appreciation of the common aims we shared for work in the schools . |
| 4 | Nor can we appeal for explanation to the notion of Scaevola as provincial practitioner . |
| 5 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 6 | Can I conclude on Harrogate then and we adjourn for tea until three thirty . |
| 7 | ‘ We hope for support from telecomms as well as computer companies and users ’ . |
| 8 | What we choose to call this event depends upon factors such as its magnitude : we speak for instance of accidents , emergencies , disasters and catastrophes , each of which carries connotations concerning the scale of the event and each of which will have a set of human and/or environmental consequences . |
| 9 | So the question he goes on to is , given its civilizing restraining role how did , what er , explanation can we give for religion in general ? |
| 10 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 11 | However , fired with enthusiasm from the successes in Sheffield , we opened for business in a church hall rented to us by a sympathetic vicar . |
| 12 | Where might we look for help in a critical offensive ? |
| 13 | As a community do we work for justice for oppressed people or do we prefer to think of them as lazy and stupid ? |
| 14 | We stand for freedom of the individual . |
| 15 | We stand for solidarity between workers of all races and colours and we are opposed and must stop unscrupulous politicians and racist groups using the race issue to divide working people ! |
| 16 | The and their self-opinionated Premier , Jacques Delores , must be told clearly that we stand for co-operation of Western style democracy , not the old Eastern block style of all encompassing socialist state with the dead hand of Brussels directing policies , as Moscow did with the U S S R. Freedom of the independent nation and people must confer . |
| 17 | Again , the childlike wonder appears when we read for example of nearly 7000 feet of Kimmeridgian ( Upper jurassic ) in New Zealand or 10 000 feet of Frasnian ( Lower Upper Devonian ) in Arctic Canada , or 17 000 feet of Arenigian ( Lower Ordovician ) in western Ireland . |
| 18 | In winter we look for work on the more difficult lowland sites such as coastal paths . |
| 19 | In these circumstances , whenever , we need independent opinion , we look for confirmation of our confidence in the credibility of the credibility of the people concerned : we then back their judgement on the likelihood of success , for they will be staking part of their careers and reputations on the outcome . |
| 20 | When we assembled for Cabinet on 8 October we found that the Prime Minister had suffered a severe attack of his prostate gland trouble during the night and had to see his doctor again . |
| 21 | The patron saint of Tui is San Télmo , he of the blue discharge on pointed objects in electric storms , and from the cathedral you have a tranquil view over the Mińo to Valença in Portugal , to where we walked for lunch across the iron bridge built by Eiffel . |
| 22 | For example , we have found that we can make good businesses by selling services that we developed for use in our own company . |
| 23 | What are we having for lunch for Sunday lunch ? |
| 24 | If dross is the price we pay for freedom of expression , there is nevertheless a point at which such dross may become pernicious . |
| 25 | There are three separate but interacting processes which determine how much we pay for welfare from the public purse . |
| 26 | In the Fifties and Sixties , when her descendants could still fit around the same table , we gathered for Christmas at Bowhill , near Selkirk . |
| 27 | Where did we go for dinner on Sunday ? |
| 28 | But we ask for patience until Chapter 4 . |
| 29 | If we must , we can use classed ranks — a hybrid between rating and ranking — in which we ask for assignment to a top class , second class , etc. , there being relatively few classes . |
| 30 | We ask for help in our task of calling for an end to the executions and the release of all political prisoners . |