Example sentences of "and [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 2 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 3 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 4 | There 's enough food and to spare for the coming year . |
| 5 | Judges initially were not amenable and denied sellers certain rights both to repossession and to sue for the deficiency . |
| 6 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |
| 7 | The incentives to seek and follow advice , to think long-term rather than short , and to work for the best results at 16+ are all clearly set out . |
| 8 | The new president in office at the EC Social Affairs Council , Tristan Garel-Jones , told the European Parliament in July that he was ready to place a great deal of importance on social problems and to work for the improvement of social conditions for all European citizens . |
| 9 | The TTF undertook to encourage both members and non-members to be aware of where supplies came from , to ensure that timber was bought from suppliers that were committed to " sustainable " resources wherever possible , and to work for the implementation of forest management schemes . |
| 10 | Whatever knowledge there is to be gleaned from this year 's batch of accidents will not be of an academic nature , but will be used to teach and to train for the future . |
| 11 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 12 | We camp , and to compensate for the fishing Odd-Knut suggests he will cook us another of his specialities , blåbærsuppe , a fish stew . |
| 13 | The latter , about which there was little evidence at the time , ( perestroika was just another word in the dictionary ) would be needed to overcome resistance to reform and to compensate for the pain of the economic transition . |
| 14 | This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided . |
| 15 | In the gigantic concrete suburbs around Bucharest and the other major cities , no churches were built to replace the ones in the areas demolished and to provide for the spiritual needs of the relocated populations . |
| 16 | He resigned from the Temple ; and to provide for the needs of his rapidly increasing family he was appointed as Rector of Boscom and prebendary of Salisbury , with the apparent understanding that he would continue to reside mainly in London , where he could find the books which he required for his great work , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity . |
| 17 | Hence it is important for the legislation to spell out the situations and conduct that will be presumed to be anticompetitive , and to provide for the competition policy institution to publish guidelines as to how it proposes to apply the legislation . |
| 18 | Three motives can perhaps be identified for the creation of special agencies in Britain , although there are of course dangers in taking ostensible motives as real ones , to create an effective separate and accountable ‘ management system ’ to reduce political ‘ interference ’ and to provide for the direct representation of special interests . |
| 19 | It had seemed such a marvellous idea at the time , to leave behind her northern home town , the scene of all her unhappy memories , and to apply for the job Caro had just vacated , to take over Caro 's lease . |
| 20 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 21 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 22 | Because few of us possess universal skills , we learn to value one another 's and to look for the unexpected amongst our colleagues ( the music teacher who is a professional photographer , the lab technician skilled in electronics ) ; and because teachers must necessarily concentrate mostly on what is pre-eminently their task , the design and communication of learning experiences , we value those para-professionals able to concentrate on related areas , such as the production of resources from our basic design , and the collection and organization of recorded information and communication in all formats . |
| 23 | On July 4 the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was readmitted ( after 20 years ) to the Writers ' Union , which voted to publish his book The Gulag Archipelago and to press for the return of his citizenship ( of which he was stripped in 1974 ) , an idea which the author rejected in December . |
| 24 | U Aung Shwe , leader of the NLD 's 15-member delegation to the " co-ordination committee " , came under increasing pressure from within the NLD to adopt a tougher line , and to press for the release of all " persons who should be taking part in these talks " . |
| 25 | First , there is the assumption that , provided international law can be made ‘ effective ’ in the sense that governments will abide by its provisions , then it will be sufficient for the peace movement merely to seek ‘ enforcement ’ of those provisions conducive to its aims , and to campaign for the extension of those provisions . |
| 26 | A second response is to weaken the inductivist demand that all non-logical knowledge must be derived from experience and to argue for the reasonableness of the principle of induction on some other grounds . |
| 27 | It gave her meat for now and to smoke for the winter , and a jacket , stinking but warm . |
| 28 | The first is Thomas v. Sawkins , where a public meeting was called in Glamorgan to protest against the Incitement to Disaffection Bill then before Parliament and to call for the dismissal of the Chief Constable of the county . |
| 29 | The committees are empowered to take evidence from ministers , civil servants and outside experts and to call for the necessary papers and records . |
| 30 | In my earlier reply I told the House what action the United Kingdom Government have taken , in concert with our partners in the European Community and other civilised countries , to condemn utterly the conduct of the Burmese Government and to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi . |