Example sentences of "for [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their Lordships refused to look at the internal workings of Parliament stating that if errors had occurred in the procedure for passing legislation then it was for Parliament alone to correct them . |
| 2 | New Zealand , Australia and Scotland for that matter would never settle for second just to please a fickle press . |
| 3 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 4 | Austrian parents do not have to suffer the embarrassment of going and asking for charity just to send their children to school looking like everyone else . |
| 5 | Clearly intended to curb the activities of nationalist guerrilla groups operating in the Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics ( particularly Armenia ) , the decree appeared designed for use equally to prevent militia units being formed in the Baltic republics as an alternative to the Soviet police and armed forces . |
| 6 | Valiant fight for victory enough to leave struggling Dundee on a high |
| 7 | Whereupon Hargreaves threw his arms around Venetia and kissed her violently , pausing for breath only to make some comment about Public Ownership , as Giles sprawled upon the floor . |
| 8 | Plenty of food for thought ahead to go with your pint of Whitbread Best Bitter , Flowers Original , Heineken or Courage over the bar ! |
| 9 | Yeah and you wo n't if , do you , wo n't have to tell 'em what you 're getting for doing it , you 're just , you 're just doing it for interest so to speak |