Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This will restrict the readership considerably , and this is a shame , for it is , and will remain for decades , the main book on the subject . |
| 3 | ‘ Linen is very popular today and it seems certain that trend will remain for years ’ , says the Guild 's spokeswoman Rita Vail . |
| 4 | but the mystery will remain for years to come . |
| 5 | Then select ‘ Ask you to specify an application ’ which lets you browse for applications . |
| 6 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
| 7 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 8 | However , the fear remained that excluding the working man from an involvement in the national political system could make for problems . |
| 9 | Reunion as charged with forgiveness as this must make for tears . |
| 10 | This may make for difficulties in terms of care . |
| 11 | I note you 've got a site inspection on the hockey club room but not for the eighty seven houses that may affect for generations , I E . |
| 12 | So is there anyone out there that has a similar machine that is now ‘ surplus to requirements that I could cannibalise for parts ? |
| 13 | The community care reforms will produce a new kind of key worker who will organise and budget for packages of care : the care manager . |
| 14 | It 's the kind of environment I would want for visitors to London . ’ |
| 15 | One might labour for years and then discover that one 's thoughts simply concealed some devilish machine . ’ |
| 16 | WHAT do you fancy for starters , darling ? |
| 17 | In less lofty circles , pay rises do not compensate for changes in other conditions at work . |
| 18 | This neatly demonstrates the Racal approach which has produced Vodafone : invest heavily in value-added services whose growth can compensate for difficulties in traditional product areas . |
| 19 | A crucial factor in the development was the growth of property-owning by towns , probably so that rent income could compensate for deficiencies of toll revenue . |
| 20 | It is therefore unlikely that the need for housing at the airport will arise for decades . |
| 21 | The problem that could therefore arise for surveyors choosing incorporation is how to safeguard themselves against changes in ownership and control . |
| 22 | Labov 's quite proper feelings of pleasure are evident to any reader of his article ; he plainly views the episode as an example of the opportunities which may arise for linguists to repay a debt to the communities they have worked with . |
| 23 | claims will arise for extensions of time and money . |
| 24 | That right will not exist for workers within a company . |
| 25 | Repetitive touching of the body surface results in a decrease in the amplitude and probability of withdrawal of the gill and siphon , a decrease which can persist for weeks . |
| 26 | The organism induces decreased acid secretion , at least in the early phase of the disease but this may persist for weeks or even months . |
| 27 | A request by opposition parties to allow a transitional period during which the newly formed parties could prepare for elections was refused on the grounds that the election dates were specified in the Constitution . |
| 28 | Mugabe 's statement on March 4 , 1990 , that " all progressive forces " should prepare for negotiations with the apartheid regime in spite of the continuation of the armed struggle was seen as criticism of the Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ) with which , rather than the ANC , ZANU had traditionally been aligned . |
| 29 | Unfortunately — ’ he caught Owen 's eye meaningfully — ‘ they can not answer for others . ’ |
| 30 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |