Example sentences of "that [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well it 's like this fellow that got done for speeding . |
| 2 | Since all the parties to this dispute had already agreed to Article 14 of the Montreal Convention , the Security Council had no lawful authority to adopt any resolution that failed to call for the arbitration of this dispute . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , a second Iraqi ship has tried to breach the U N trade embargo imposed against Iraq : earlier today a British warship , H M S Battleaxe , fired warning shots across the bows of one vessel that failed to stop for a cargo inspection . |
| 4 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 5 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent . |
| 7 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 8 | Relatives may make a gift to a local hospital that has cared for a loved one . |
| 9 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 10 | The Full Plans method is the old system that has existed for many years , whereby detailed plans of your proposal are submitted in duplicate , along with an application form . |
| 11 | This work will not be done in a vacuum , but for a problem that has existed for at least a lifetime a few more months of thought might lead to better outcomes , and ones that will be more readily accepted . |
| 12 | It is impossible exactly to define what is modern dance because the body is the same that has danced for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | These maps represent something , certainly , but not the ultimate mystery of the first creation that has gone for ever with its scar inside one huge unstable atom . |
| 14 | It is not only the Conservative party that has asked for such an explanation ; Labour supporters and sympathisers have done so as well . |
| 15 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 16 | One thing is clear : Islam flourishes like a hardy plant wherever it springs up , and a tradition that has endured for over 1,300 years is sure to endure for a few more . |
| 17 | Mr X is managing director of a limited company that has traded for several years . |
| 18 | He was also one prime source of the notion that has counted for so much among those with misgivings about democracy ever since : that of the tyranny of the majority . |
| 19 | Our society too still has recognized ways of marking the change in status that has occurred for some people . |
| 20 | Because the RAWP formula is only used to determine shares of the nationally allocated budget for the NHS , it has not suffered from the same instability of allocations for individual Regional Health Authorities that has occurred for Local Authorities . |
| 21 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 22 | Du n no what that is , I mean oh we have n't got a clue , he 's not got a clue on car , do n't know where he 's got that bloody lot from , so besides other things that want checking for MOT , I think he wants them to check |
| 23 | Its sing-a-long chorus was tempered with a churning ending that seemed to stretch for half the song . |
| 24 | Photographs , ornaments jammed anyhow on to whatever might accommodate them ; furniture , chairs and tallboys that seemed to fight for space . |
| 25 | Instead of making directly for it , I followed a track that seemed to make for the Foulness road , about half a mile beyond the village or hamlet marked as Crabtree Wick . |
| 26 | Yggdrasil composed an exquisite sonnet that deserved to live for centuries , but kept it to itself . |
| 27 | It was a stray that came to beg for food in the garden of a town house . |
| 28 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 29 | One event may thus produce a multitude of effects that continue to reverberate for many years . |
| 30 | But , where it 's a proposal that seems to call for persuasion , should n't we be thinking of letting the inhabitants of the city decide for themselves ? |