Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suggestions of obligating the unemployed to work for their benefits are quite in keeping for a Government which has done virtually everything else it can to ensure that millions of Britons will work for derisory incomes . |
| 2 | We 've got the French to thank for the explosion of patterned underthings in the 1980s . |
| 3 | The botanist J. D. Hooker postulated a massive extension of land in the Antarctic to account for the similarity of plants between New Zealand , South America and the islands of the remote south . |
| 4 | So there is no doubt about the ability of the Japanese to pay for this information and knowledge , nor about their strong motivation for acquiring it . |
| 5 | Japan could be of much importance in the event of war and it might be feasible for the Japanese to fight for the United States after a war had begun . |
| 6 | His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities . |
| 7 | Several commercial pantographs are available , mostly for the BBC Micro , and some are even offered in kit form for the adventurous to build for themselves . |
| 8 | For example , he postulated 300 million years since the Cretaceous to allow for the scooping out of the Wealden anticline in south-east England . |
| 9 | It was the lack of democracy and equality which impelled the oppressed to fight for secession . |
| 10 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 11 | Instead , those against whaling a likely to push for further discussion of the proposal . |
| 12 | Would I have to take a flexi-day to play for England ? … mmm , I wonder ? |