Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 advertise for birth parents
2 They advertise for people to present themselves as possible magistrates .
3 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 ?
4 Some versions of traps have a capped connector on the side , for connecting an overflow assembly , which can be unscrewed for cleaning .
5 There was an even larger turnout on May 14 when funeral marches for Kang were held in the capital and elsewhere .
6 Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure .
7 In his memoir of the 1960s Ali records how , following the review , Goodwin rang him , they met for lunch , and the literary agent explained that he wanted to start the new paper .
8 ‘ Wild ’ Charlie Mander , the British consul , and Sheriff Felipe Almodovar , the self-styled ‘ Law South of Tierra del Fuego , ’ met for talks in an attempt to reach a settlement , but tempers rose and shots were exchanged .
9 Khadafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met for talks in February and June to discuss regional issues and ways of increasing co-operation in agriculture , industry , health and telecommunications .
10 Baker met for talks with a three-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini , director of the East Jerusalem Institute of Arab Studies , on July 21 .
11 In December 1990 Chandra Shekhar met for talks with Simranjit Singh Mann , leader of one of the three main Akali Dal factions [ see p. 37915 ] .
12 Prime Minister John Major and Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen met for talks at 10 Downing Street today on next week 's EC summit in Copenhagen .
13 Representatives of the government of Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) and the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) met for peace talks in Honiara , the capital of the Solomon Islands , on Jan. 22 .
14 On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia .
15 ‘ He could have done it beforehand when we met for drinks and everyone 's attention was on Mrs Figgis-Hewett , ’ said Angelina , albeit with a feeling of disloyalty to a fellow female .
16 As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat .
17 911 is the number you would dial for emergency in America hence the name of the program .
18 Well we we often had people coming and asking to use our telephone , because either the telephones were erm all out of order , or you could only dial for emergencies .
19 Only after receiving assurances that the Emperor would neither be embarrassed nor be expected to apologize for atrocities committed by Japanese forces did Miyazawa consent to the visit .
20 ‘ I do n't design for Sarah Chester 's , ’ she retorted calmly , slipping the pages into a folder and closing it decisively .
21 A car manufacturer does not design for failure because he believes that his cars will not fail .
22 It was all wrong and back to front , but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage .
23 Forecasting for periods of three to five years ahead is as much a part of the corporate planning activity .
24 But , today , rapid changes in life expectancy , provision of international aid and the availability of birth control make forecasting for periods greater than five years difficult .
25 For instance , the high rate of scientific and technological development in the field of semiconductors during the past two or three decades has meant that technological forecasting has become a crucial part of sales and market forecasting for companies manufacturing electronic and telecommunication products , computers etc .
26 Following his commission as flight lieutenant RAFVR he specialized in upper-air analysis and forecasting for bomber groups .
27 His home was ever open , a centre of wisdom and influence for decades ; admired even by cabinet ministers from Britain .
28 If so were the figures I posted for corners etc totally false , or were we like ‘ Cobras with arthritis ’ again ?
29 Shoppers will have more in their pockets and it will not cost companies vast sums to borrow for expansion .
30 Every company has an implied power to borrow for purposes which are incidental to its business .
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