Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] for [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , which became law in 1970 , revolutionised the public attitude to the disabled , including the deaf , by imposing statutory duties upon local authorities to provide for their welfare and to help them to overcome their disabilities . |
| 2 | He was soon bringing his skills to bear for his country , too , especially in Australia in 1986–7 . |
| 3 | Many of the children in care were young , and unless positive steps to plan for their future were taken , they would continue like the older children in their sample to wait for lengthy periods in care . |
| 4 | The readiness of individual pacifists to suffer for their faith would be ‘ a far more powerful propaganda than countless meetings … . |
| 5 | But when away , he burgled offices to pay for his hotel bills . |
| 6 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 7 | Pepita set down among the crates to wait for her friend and the rum to reach her . |
| 8 | The man leapt ; Marian half-rose to her feet to reach for her bow , there was a whistle , a rush of feet , and something knocked her over . |
| 9 | There were two major reports on the news , one showing mass rallies in Spain on the eve of the elections there , hundreds of thousands of ordinary people crammed into sports stadia to hear their party leaders , and the other on the miners ' ballot , with interviews among the miners who travelled in busloads from coalfields in Derbyshire and Lancashire for the Sheffield rally , interviews with Michael McGahey on the road about the vilification of Scargill , and the sight of Scargill himself appealing to the miners to vote for their union and against the National Coal Board . |
| 10 | The study will extend to an investigation of the work histories of the workers and their labour market aspirations to allow for their experience with their current employer to be fitted into their broader labour market experience . |
| 11 | Once they learn how to do that with their own dogs , they ca n't resist commanding other pups to sit for their food rewards . |
| 12 | ‘ You should not think you have the Merkuts to thank for your freedom , ’ Jehan said conversationally . |
| 13 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 14 | These ideas failed to allow for Austrian objections to Russian gains in the Balkans and grossly exaggerated the inclination of the Balkan Slavs to fight for their freedom , but they had the virtue of giving the tsar time to negotiate . |
| 15 | Mr Field has joined the Society and I gather that he intends to put his practical skills to use for our benefit and make a model of the Bishop 's Castle signal . |
| 16 | Even those texts which appeared concerned with uncontroversial matters were open to be seen as engaging in political and social questions in which the state could suddenly intervene and cause uneasy writers to account for their work . |
| 17 | A key element of the FMI has been the use of delegated budgeting and the creation of cost centres to hold managers to account for their expenditure . |
| 18 | If the government sells bonds to pay for its spending , interest rates rise and the private sector is squeeze . |
| 19 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |
| 20 | They will leaflet customers to ask for their support in the campaign to halt compulsory sackings . |
| 21 | So , for example , if you go to a supplier and ask for a machine to run Windows quickly , and you end up with an elderly 8086 PC , you 'll be entirely within your rights to ask for your money back . |
| 22 | If it does n't arrive by the date agreed , then you 're within your rights to ask for your money back . |
| 23 | Sometimes the decision is taken out of the woman 's hands anyway , as when the family home is sold because children have finished their education and an ex-husband is within his legal rights to ask for his share . |
| 24 | He was also renowned as a fearsome penalty-taker , and was certainly one of the most popular players to appear for our club . |
| 25 | She owned farms locally and spent her life worrying about Christian slaves in Turkey , for on her death she left the farms to pay for their ransom . |
| 26 | They could not form healthy friendships with either women or men , and ‘ identified with abstract collectivities to compensate for their failure and/or inability to relate to individual human beings . ’ |
| 27 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 28 | We were so worried by the Oldie editor 's eccentric behaviour , we sent off letters to the agony aunts to ask for their help |
| 29 | Haketa said that the Slavs had German missionary priests to thank for their liberation from the depths of ignorance . |
| 30 | Blinking groups with all unconscious rapid closing and opening of eyelids in humans and animals ; it can be described physiologically and there are causal laws to account for its occurrence . |