Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Every company has an implied power to borrow for purposes which are incidental to its business .
3 Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development .
4 Some banks also have a hit list of people whom they threaten to sue for damages .
5 Depending upon the kind of problem that has arisen , it may be easier and safer for you to sue for damages for breach of your contract while remaining in your job .
6 You may also be able to sue for damages if your employer , past or present , fails to take care to ensure that his comments are based on correct information .
7 We are taking details , legal advice and our rights to sue for damages are fully reserved .
8 Where the term breached is a less important term , a warranty , breach merely entitles the victim of it to sue for damages and does not allow the victim to end the contract .
9 Section 303(5) provides that the section does not deprive the director of the right to sue for damages for breach of contract , if in fact he or she has one .
10 Since Morland J. found that the cases mentioned above demonstrated , without uncertainty or ambiguity , that the council as a local authority was entitled to sue for damages in respect of the libels alleged in the statement of claim , he held that it was not necessary to have regard to article 10 .
11 I suspect that the reason why the right has been so little asserted or used is because of the established right of individuals , who are personally libelled by a false attack upon a local authority , to sue for damages and because those in control of local authorities have sensibly left the issues to be resolved in those proceedings .
12 B may refuse to accept that as a repudiation by S. In that case B will be able to sue for damages for non-delivery if on December 1 S does not deliver .
13 a child in utero is to be treated as already born thereby having a right to sue for damages for the death of his father .
14 The court must first determine whether the particular statute gave rise to the right to sue for damages .
15 O ate said that the government is to allow all citizens to sue for damages over environmental hazards , and to accompany environmental inspectors on site visits .
16 The landlord would be entitled to sue for damages for breach of covenant and/or endeavour to forfeit the lease ( although the risk of forfeiture is extremely unlikely in the current market ) .
17 Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head .
18 Once the right to reject the goods has lapsed , the buyer 's only remedy is to sue for damages for breach of contract .
19 In this case , the contract may be set aside and the buyer will be able to sue for damages .
20 They say they still want to find out how the girls died , but ca n't get legal aid to sue for damages .
21 A man who was apparently brain damaged during an operation has been given permission to sue for damages … even though the operation took place twenty five years ago .
22 The Department of Trade opposed his application to sue for damages .
23 ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’
24 So confident was Sturt that a bountiful Garden of Eden existed somewhere in central Australia that in January 1843 he began to sue for funds for an expedition into the interior .
25 Life , as John recalls it , was happy if hard , with not much time left over for fun after the daily toil was complete and certainly nothing to spare for luxuries .
26 ‘ Change for change 's sake ’ is not our policy and as un-paid voluntary workers — going more or less flat out — we have little or no time to spare for non-essentials !
27 As for Lizzie Treherne , to whom Wilson still felt drawn , she had done her best but , with four children now , she truly had no time to spare for letters , never having found them easy .
28 We 've all had to wait for doctors and dentists , yeah ?
29 Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up .
30 The Czechoslovak Finance Minister , Vaclav Klaus , expressed impatience at the pace of progress envisaged by the communiqué , declaring that Czechoslovakia did " not want to wait for committees " and wished to " start the overhaul tomorrow " .
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