Example sentences of "[verb] for [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They advertise for people to present themselves as possible magistrates . |
| 2 | If , at the end of this year , the total funds — I reckon those to be £44 million , but that figure may not be quite accurate — are underspent , will my hon. Friend advertise for people who , from 1989 to 1991 , did not receive their full allocation and allow anyone , including my constituents , to apply to help them use up any unused balance ? |
| 3 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 4 | Cost , not quality , ideology not competence , delivery for profit rather than service for people — those are the slogans that we have had from this regime . |
| 5 | In a confused and confusing holiday price structure , it may be useful to translate these figures into pictures , do a Jack Horner on the holiday pie and pluck out some typical plums , pinpoint what the 1990 market offers for £250 per head . |
| 6 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 7 | It is n't prescribed for people under 19 or over 65 , and you should not take it if you have heart trouble , particularly angina . |
| 8 | Corticosteroids would not usually be prescribed for people with Aids , since their immune response is already suppressed , but recent reports suggest they can reduce the inflammatory process associated with PCP . |
| 9 | Windows 3.0 and 3.1 users can upgrade for £94 or £49 respectively . |
| 10 | UK prices start from £3,000 for a typical development licence , although existing Windows4GL users can upgrade for £400 . |
| 11 | Microsoft Corp says its Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit Version 2.0 will be available early this month for $500 : the new generation supports several emerging multimedia systems and brings content-based title development within reach of publishers that might not know programming languages , the firm said ; Viewer 2.0 replaces the Multimedia Development Kit , the registered users of which can upgrade for $200 . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp says its Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit Version 2.0 will be available early this month for $500 : the new generation supports several emerging multimedia systems and brings content-based title development within reach of publishers that might not know programming languages , the firm said ; Viewer 2.0 replaces the Multimedia Development Kit , the registered users of which can upgrade for $200 . |
| 13 | Priced £445+VAT , existing users can upgrade for £99+VAT Lotus : Tel.0784 455 445 . |
| 14 | Aberdeenshire is best known as the place to go for salmon fishing , and the Royal Dee is one of the finest salmon streams in Scotland . |
| 15 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 16 | The ThinkPad 720C with 4Mb and 160Mb removable disk is expected to go for $4,700 . |
| 17 | The trench will need to be around 500mm wide and 600 to 700mm deep — allowing for 100mm of bedding material |
| 18 | Allowing for 1% transactions costs led to a big reduction in the number of mispricings , with few overpricings . |
| 19 | Out at sea flocks hovered and plunged for fish . |
| 20 | The softness of the Georgia O'Keeffe market was evident : the small and not very exciting ‘ Cannas ’ ( lot 160 est. $125–175,000 ) went to Santa Fe dealer , Gerald Peters for $130,000 ( £81,250 ) . |
| 21 | It therefore comes ill from this Government to appeal for people to accept greater obligation to each other , when its policies have accelerated the decline of mutuality and neighbourliness . |
| 22 | Fish of more than 10lb in weight have been caught , generally by autumn anglers , trolling for salmon . |
| 23 | Gristy had been trolling for mackerel since dawn , and had had one of his best catches ever . |
| 24 | He had taken her to most of the local beauty spots ; arranged for cannon to be fired over the lake for their echoes and the quaint museum to be selectively open when they visited the place . |
| 25 | ARRANGED for £96,000 of union cash to be paid into his pension pot to give him inflation-proofing and a two-thirds pension on his final £55,000 salary . |
| 26 | Pharaon , holder of 25 percent of CenTrust 's shares , allegedly arranged for $25,000,000 of the issue to be placed temporarily with BCCI to mislead regulators into believing the entire issue had been sold . |
| 27 | Priority booking can be arranged for staff by contacting the public affairs department at John Wood House . |
| 28 | In addition to an absorbing interpretation of Winterreise , which comprises the second CD , we have a strange mélange on the first disc that consists of some of the songs arranged for viola and piano , some for piano alone , and some of the poems merely being read by Peter Härtling , who ends the disc with a 12-minute Epilogue , discoursing on Müller 's life . |
| 29 | Sperm whales frequently dive to search for squid and they are much more agile than any of our hunting devices . |
| 30 | It is also useful to demonstrate the choice you are given for data entry in many Windows boxes . |