Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [vb infin] for the " in BNC.
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1 | Defendants are entitled to give evidence of their honest state of mind , and to explain why their dominant motive , irrespective of any dislike they may feel for the plaintiff , was to comment on a matter of public interest . |
2 | They may provide for the position of the institutional equity investors in respect of warranties on a flotation , in particular , whether or not they would give warranties in the offer for sale agreement to the merchant bank leading the flotation . |
3 | Guide those who shape the decisions of government that they may plan for the good of all society , and not set neighbour against neighbour , class against class , region against region . |
4 | This will normally mean that they must work for the company full-time . |
5 | It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young . |
6 | But erm they are built in a such a way that they should cater for the largest vehicle that is likely to use that road . |
7 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
8 | Many developing nations argue that since the industrialized countries are the world 's main polluters , they should pay for improvements in the global environment ; and since they are rich , they should pay for the transfers of technology necessary for the developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions , stop deforestation and carry out other changes . |
9 | Changes must be made to the attack for the first Test at Old Trafford next month but pacemen Andy Caddick , Paul Jarvis and Chris Lewis now have just one more chance to prove they should remain for the Ashes opener . |
10 | Four members of the sprint squad missed the bus and arrived at the stadium later than they should have for the morning heats . |
11 | Emergency laws giving wide-ranging powers of arrest and detention , first introduced in 1981 after the assassination of President Anwar el Sadat , were extended when the People 's Assembly voted on May 8 that they should apply for the period June 1 , 1991 , to May 31 , 1994 . |
12 | If the air traffic controllers want to save a lot of anguish then they should close for the night . |
13 | They will pay their Poll Tax , they 'll pay for their electricity , they 'll pay for their water , they 'll pay for the sewage disposal and , what is more , they will pay rent . |
14 | They 'll send for the least Trifle to the other end of a long Street to one of their own Crew , when the very next Neighbour , a Church-man , has it to sell " . |
15 | Staff at the centre say they 'll care for the animals until they 're strong enough to be returned to the wild . |
16 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
17 | Spycatcher lawyer Malcolm Turnbull said : ‘ Australians are passionately proud of their country , and , no matter what respect they might have for the Queen , they want their country 's symbols to be Australian . ’ |
18 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
19 | Before the announcement , Baker had an unprecedented meeting on Feb. 14 , at a previously closed nuclear weapons development laboratory , Chelyabinsk-70 , with scientists there , who outlined suggestions for civilian work which they could do for the West . |
20 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |
21 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
22 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
23 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
24 | She said an ex-boyfriend had a house across Lake Pontchartrain they could use for the weekend . |
25 | But profits from their credit card schemes slumped ; they took advantage of a new government ruling that they could charge for the cards , but felt their schemes were newly threatened by the Government 's agreement to allow shops to charge lower prices when customers paid in cash . |
26 | Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up . |
27 | In their plight at present , they 'd settle for the same status as Hartlepool next season in the Second Division . |
28 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
29 | They 'd look for the car , and when they could n't find it , they 'd probably come back . |
30 | Pam , 63 , said : ‘ They used to come every summer for a couple of weeks and the rest of the year they would stay for the odd week . |