Example sentences of "to [pron] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since , as we shall see later , a large number of appeals are actually delegated to them for decision , they are an important part of the process . |
| 2 | One can be emotionally dependent on a parent , calling home daily , looking to them for decisions or allowing parents ’ wishes and desires to come before one 's partner . |
| 3 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 4 | Large numbers of laypeople from all walks of life resort to them for back disorders , often after having tried conventional medical approaches unsuccessfully . |
| 5 | People 's purchase behaviour will , in part , be determined by basic economic factors such as : * the real disposable income available to them for expenditure on consumer goods and services ; * the price of the available products ; * basic personal perceptions of what constitutes good " value for money " ; * the relative prices of " substitute " products , whose purchase might become preferred ; * the relative prices of " complementary " products ( whose purchase is in some way related to the original purchase ) . |
| 6 | After parties have agreed on the method of enquiry , a time is allowed to them for preparation of the hearing . |
| 7 | Then we are likely to seek out people who can be close to us , sometimes clinging to them for support , as if our own security was dependent upon their actual and continued physical presence . |
| 8 | Winter-lets are not intrinsically bad , but they are ‘ symptoms rather than causes of insecure housing , chiefly because many authorities ignore the needs of people who have to resort to them for want of a better choice … . ’ |
| 9 | The banks ' role in the economy is thus crucial , and this was underlined when Chancellor Kohl turned to them for help in rebuilding East Germany . |
| 10 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 11 | ‘ It is important that your bank knows everything about your business so that if you have to go to them for help they are in the best position to five assistance . |
| 12 | The debt-counselling charities shoulder much of the burden ; here Citizens Advice Bureaux workers from all over Oxfordshire are themselves advised on what they should tell the desperate people who come to them for help because of spiralling debt . |
| 13 | However , as we saw , this type of personality hangs on to others , looking to them for affirmation and praise . |
| 14 | We have applied to them for bonding and may choose to move down that route instead . |
| 15 | You 'd do ‘ tie-ins ’ with the local shops : you 'd sell the Paris idea to them for instance . |
| 16 | Local dentists called the meeting after learning ministers wanted to reduce the 25pc subsidies paid to them for NHS patients . |
| 17 | Erm I do n't know I have n't been to them for ages now |
| 18 | Pupils look to them for advice , encouragement and support . |
| 19 | if you 'd of gone to them for advice and say which is the better buy , which will was wash better and why , you know , I want I want |
| 20 | Females are attracted by males ' displays and go to them for mating . |
| 21 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 22 | Proper names are paradigm referential symbols , and it seems natural to look to them for clues . |
| 23 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 24 | So you know once you 've gone to them No once you 've gone to them for advertising you ca n't go to that person for something else . |
| 25 | The societies woke up to the threat and realised that the public was no longer naturally coming to them for mortgages . |
| 26 | We have nonetheless put in an application to them for word-processing equipment , but this is obviously a one-off capital item . |
| 27 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 28 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 29 | Also please note that any Training Fund applications submitted within the last four weeks for courses organised by the Training Division have already been forwarded to them for attention . |
| 30 | In Greece , where the legal system is again based on the Napoleonic Code , there is a law that once the next-of-kin have identified the body of a relative it must be released to them for burial . |