Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 2 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 3 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 4 | A more satisfactory theory of what determines a country 's ability to carry foreign debt should be developed allowing for interactions between economic growth , political stability and debt-servicing capacity , and distinguishing between permanent and transitory states of the relevant variables . |
| 5 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 6 | To achieve this , sufficient domestic tax relief would be given to compensate for higher import prices resulting from tariffs up to current levels of imports . |
| 7 | There was indeed a steady brain drain ; and some , like Lieberich , had intended to come for a visit rather than to stay permanently . |
| 8 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 9 | They will keep this addition , which is intended to compensate for the VAT they can not reclaim . |
| 10 | It has been a fashion among Opposition Members — indeed , this was reported by the hon. Gentleman tonight — to suggest that the access funds alone are intended to compensate for the withdrawal of benefits generally and that the £25 million , which he correctly quoted , must , therefore , be inadequate . |
| 11 | The UN Charter would have to be amended to provide for a special security council which would not , presumably , include the rights of veto held by the five permanent members of the existing security council . |
| 12 | The payment will be available to teaching staff until such time as the Teachers ' Superannuation ( Scotland ) Regulations are amended to provide for an injury allowance . |
| 13 | Agree either that there continue to be no lower limit for the remuneration certificate jurisdiction or that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide for a lower limit of £100 profit costs . |
| 14 | from the process of the regular review of departments and faculties by ad hoc review bodies , which always include strong external representation ( this formal review procedure has recently been amended to provide for the review of all departments and faculties on , approximately , a ten-year cycle rather than , as previously , simply associating reviews with the impending retirement of a head of department ) ; and |
| 15 | Even if the original tenant is forced to join a guarantor , it may be advisable for the guarantor 's covenant to be amended to provide for the guarantor 's liability to cease on an assignment by the tenant . |
| 16 | All rooms are pleasantly furnished to provide for a relaxed and comfortable stay . |
| 17 | Mr Bouverie was a solicitor , Peter said , but he had wanted to be a priest , had intended to try for ordination if cancer had not prevented it . |
| 18 | Her faithful shadow , a Yorkshire terrier called Heathcliffe , was just as confused ; and the time that we had arranged to meet for lunch was fast approaching . |
| 19 | They 'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he had n't been able to wait . |
| 20 | Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing . |
| 21 | There can be no doubt , however , that funerary liability was a powerful inducement to save ; it was estimated in 1843 that between one-quarter and one-third of all deposits in savings banks were intended to provide for ‘ a respectable funeral . ’ |
| 22 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 23 | These are , the chapter says , creating new pressures for the extension of joint regulation which ‘ inevitably raise the question whether existing institutions can be developed to provide for employee involvement at this level , or whether new institutions are needed . ’ |
| 24 | In fact , Japan 's trade surplus registered declines for nine consecutive months during 1989 and recorded an overall 17 per cent drop for the whole year , from $77,600 million in 1988 to $64,400 million . |
| 25 | Presumably he had in mind — nothing else would have been reconcilable with his profession of non-violence — not so much killing as bravely standing up to be killed , but the position was one he felt constrained to apologize for later . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , provided that it is possible to make informed assumptions about the likely shapes and sizes of buildings at particular periods , a computer can be programmed to search for particular configurations of post-holes that might result from such a structure and ‘ peel them off ’ , to reveal a simplified picture of earlier building phases . |
| 27 | To try to make sense out of the vast amount of raw material intercepted each day the NSA uses computers that are programmed to search for key ‘ trigger ’ words , names , and numbers amongst the hundreds of thousands of circuits being continuously analysed . |
| 28 | The ThinkPad 720C with 4Mb and 160Mb removable disk is expected to go for $4,700 . |
| 29 | Included in this sale of the Dallhold Collection is Rupert Bunny 's ‘ Mrs Herbert Jones and her daughters , Hilda and Dulce ’ ( signed , 1904 , oil on canvas , 107x137 cm , ) , which is expected to go for Aus$450–550,000 ( £190–230,000 ; $340–415,000 ) . |
| 30 | Northern Ireland , with the pressure off , are expected to go for a win . |