Example sentences of "[to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |
| 2 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 3 | Franco Ferrero wishes to apologize for the delay in sending out his Kayak & Mountain brochure but by now it should be on the way to all who requested it . |
| 4 | Even more , she had been quite ready to apologize for the public exhibition she had made of herself , and to ask his forgiveness . |
| 5 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 6 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 7 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 8 | In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job . |
| 9 | Judges initially were not amenable and denied sellers certain rights both to repossession and to sue for the deficiency . |
| 10 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 11 | True the £24,500 was never paid , bar the £1,800-odd , but , despite the receipt clause , Mr. Steed would have been entitled to sue for the outstanding sum . |
| 12 | The position of a secured creditor is to be contrasted with that of an unsecured creditor who merely has a personal claim to sue for the payment of his debt and to invoke the available legal processes for the enforcement of any judgment that he may obtain . |
| 13 | Therefore the seller will be unable to sue for the price unless , at the time of the neglect or refusal to pay , he was ready and willing to deliver . |
| 14 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 15 | Suppose , father being impoverished and son having come into money , the father had required the creditor to sue for the whole sum ? |
| 16 | Has X got property rights over the goods entitling him to recover the goods ( or their value ) in priority to any other creditors of Y Ltd. , or , on the other hand , is he merely an unsecured creditor having only a right to sue for the price ? |
| 17 | In Precedent 1 , cl 5.5 gives an example of a simple retention of title clause , coupled with the express grant of a power to sue for the price , once the due date for payment has come , even though property has not passed . |
| 18 | It was held that this was a contract for sale and the plaintiffs were therefore able to sue for the price . |
| 19 | Pensions are usually compared by converting the annual pension paid to an average earner into ecu , using ‘ purchasing power parity ’ to accommodate for the various costs of living in each country . |
| 20 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 21 | Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church . |
| 22 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 23 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 24 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 25 | Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute . |
| 26 | There 's enough food and to spare for the coming year . |
| 27 | However the moment it slips you have to wait for the chain to gain momentum before cutting can recommence , otherwise it bites again . |
| 28 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 29 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 30 | More sweeping changes to deal with the threat of global warming will have to wait for the Government 's environment white paper under discussion in cabinet committee . |