Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 2 | Linda Johnson felt as though she 'd been doing nothing but prepare for Christmas for months and was exhausted before it all began . |
| 3 | However , if imperialism is a consequence of capitalist expansionism and not simply a colonial system of government , then some form of economic neo-imperialism could persist after independence for ex-colonies ( see Abel and Lewis , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | the teacher-librarian ( who would act as coordinator for the Project ) ; |
| 5 | The federation shall act as guarantor for the liabilities of the Special Fund . |
| 6 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 7 | Shortly after volunteering my services contacted me to see if I would act as supporter for who had recently had a little girl called . |
| 8 | Erm the City Council does act as agent for the highway authority within the City of York and actually maintains a a tra transportation model er in conjunction with the County Council with the County Surveyor . |
| 9 | GPA is the manager of the aircraft and will act as agent for the sales of the aircraft prior to the maturity of the securities issued by ALPS . |
| 10 | As a result of the publicity given to these events , it was decided that the Treasury Solicitor would no longer act as solicitor for the Tribunal . |
| 11 | Bank of New York will act as trustee for the notes to be issued under the registration statement . |
| 12 | Can I opt for tuberculosis for my five-year-old daughter , even supposing my husband and I include the possibility in our life options ? |
| 13 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 14 | A weakly verifiable statement is not itself strongly verifiable , but is confirmable or disconfirmable by appeal to other statements which are conclusively verifiable ; that is , strongly verifiable statements can count as evidence for or against it . |
| 15 | This is an essential aspect of theory testing , of course : results which are consistent with all models can not count as evidence for any of them . |
| 16 | Not one Bank Assistant is earning a level of income which would qualify for consideration for a loan from any of the Bank 's Subsidiaries . |
| 17 | It was feeling a deep ache of loss for something she had never had in the first place . |
| 18 | Linfield are of course awaiting the outcome ; they will play FC Copenhagen in Belfast next Wednesday should a Tbilisi appeal against expulsion for attempted bribery of match officials fail . |
| 19 | The ERDF will focus upon support for productive investment , modernisation of infrastructure , and studies of the potential for physical planning at the Community level ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 20 | Plants that do need sunlight may survive in shade for a while , directing their energies to growing rapidly towards the light essential for their flowering and seed production . |
| 21 | They will survive without water for up to two weeks ( providing you do n't forget to water too often ) and love hot weather . |
| 22 | Later phases would concentrate on irrigation for agriculture . |
| 23 | The system ensures that those who might seem most deserving receive perhaps an Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) — or a British Empire Medal ( BEM ) for those ‘ who do not qualify by rank for the higher awards ’ — while a bureaucrat who has successfully worked his way to the top of the civil service without putting a foot wrong will get a knighthood in the Order of the Bath . |
| 24 | ‘ Most people will opt by default for version 3.1 , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 25 | What sense can we make of support for these parties at the polls ? |
| 26 | If you go away then as soon as you know that you 're going we 'll send off registration for Bishop Challener and that 's it and we can send off a year 's a year 's umm fees in advance ca n't we ? |
| 27 | In the long term , the report says , the situation may improve as demand for virgin metals in industrialized countries continues to fall , and metal recycling increases . |
| 28 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 29 | I was so tired with the journey and the entertainment that I could only walk and speak with difficulty for the next three days . |
| 30 | United in one goal , as perhaps never before in their Christian life , they will experience violent attack from without and within , and have to forgive each other seventy times seven , but will certainly grow in love for each other . |