Example sentences of "[noun sg] for past " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the short term they need assurance that the payment for past services will be forthcoming . |
| 2 | Also the purchaser is likely to assume responsibility for past liabilities through the assignment or novation of contracts ( see Chapter 4 ) , subject to an appropriate indemnity from the vendor . |
| 3 | These are examples of collective responsibility for past wrongs . |
| 4 | A senior minister , looking at the vast new platform which turned the Winter Gardens into a television set , suggested that it really ought to contain a pantheon for past leaders . |
| 5 | It had always proved a solace for past unhappiness , but this time its charm had n't worked . |
| 6 | Warsett School Reunion Night , Leavers of 1980 , disco & licensed bar for past pupils and teachers , Main Hall , Warsett School , 7.30pm–midnight . |
| 7 | Or , to get at it another way , here is a miscellaneous list from my own notebook of possible motives for murder : financial gain , self-protection , to preserve status , fear , to protect a loved one , for a principle , for revenge ( but remember credibility here : only in some societies is revenge stoked up enough to lead to killing ) , the drive to power , compensation for past humiliation , removing a bar to sexual happiness ( bother the permissive society , but impediments do still exist ) , jealousy , the desire to cock a giant snook at the whole world . |
| 8 | Chornovil , assessing the current socio-political situation in Ukraine , laid the blame for past problems not only on those in power but also on the divided democratic opposition forces . |
| 9 | Today 's pop , be it Moyet , Curiosity , even Phil Collins or Tina turner , reads as a continued act of contrition for past pop mischief — how could Clare Grogan eat ice cream when , as we all know , Billie Holiday spent nine months in a state asylum ? |
| 10 | If they delay they may fall into arrears with their tax and later be faced with having to pay tax for past years . |
| 11 | During the period of entry , interest rates may have to be kept at the present emergency level , but it is an emergency level , a punishment for past sins of credit creation and lax management . |
| 12 | Personal misfortune was regarded either as a test of faith which had to be patiently endured , or as a punishment for past transgressions requiring deep repentance . |
| 13 | The basis of these systems was the allocation of credit points to parts of courses so that candidates could move from one course to another or from one centre to another and carry credit for past achievement , where that achievement was relevant to the new course . |
| 14 | A man has a right to take credit for past success and to attribute it to the real cause . |
| 15 | Or there may be an element of retaliation for past suffering . |
| 16 | Dealing with guilt for past behaviour by making direct amends to those who have been harmed , dealing with shame by accepting one 's self as having an illness and therefore worthy of self-forgiveness , and dealing with damaged relationships by being honest , open-minded and willing , all help to reestablish the general sense of well-being that is the hallmark of someone in recovery . |
| 17 | Visit by South Korean President — Japanese apology for past relationship |
| 18 | Foreign Ministry sources stressed that the visit was designed to promote friendship and goodwill and would not include an imperial apology for past Japanese actions . |
| 19 | South African soldiers are going into the villages asking people 's forgiveness for past atrocities and to show their good intentions they are even ploughing fields . |
| 20 | He had nothing to lose by ostentatious atonement for past sins ; and St Eadwold , whose relics Cerne claimed to possess , was the brother of Edmund of East Anglia . |
| 21 | Although the company had already agreed to continue paying existing pensioners , it had not made any commitment for past and present employees retiring now and in the future . |
| 22 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 23 | Those slightly better off could organize an annual requiem for past guild members at All Souls ' — 2 November — or on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of their main benefactor , and it was quite in order for bequests to be made to the guild in addition to the contributions given to it during one 's lifetime . |
| 24 | Mr Dryfe said the main reason for past losses was the combination of higher labour costs and restrictive work practices with lower productivity compared with the company 's UK competitors . |
| 25 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 26 | Tit for Tat , as we have seen , is ‘ nice ’ , meaning never the first to defect , and ‘ forgiving ’ , meaning that it has a short memory for past misdeeds . |
| 27 | Or could it be Colebrooke , who had discovered Sir Ralph 's murky past and was promoting his own ambitions under the guise of revenge for past misdeeds ? |
| 28 | What really influences the incidence of rescue operations is partly the extent of danger to related companies , but also the degree of previous cooperation with group objectives which incur debts of gratitude for past favours . |
| 29 | Persuasion , appeals to the affections or ties of kindred , to a sentiment of gratitude for past services , or pity for future destitution , or the like , — these are all legitimate , and may be fairly pressed on a testator . |
| 30 | Of course , it would be naive to claim that all gifts are made with no thought of any benefit that might accrue to the individual or his or her family at some future time , or to deny that gifts are often a reflection of gratitude for past services rendered to a member of the family or the donor him or herself . |