Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remaining stocks ( in electrical equipment , mostly ) are being burned , but traces will remain for many years . |
| 2 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 3 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 4 | A sufficient moral universe it may remain for those who inhabit it , but they are a dwindling band and for large areas of the country Labour 's world is a cultural world apart . |
| 5 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 6 | Normally the others would remain for another hour or so . |
| 7 | The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group : |
| 8 | Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable . |
| 9 | What does she think for that matter ? |
| 10 | I would think for some of the younger ones who have n't seen or read a lot in the papers of where , what 's going on |
| 11 | There 'll be a great big clamour I sho I should think for those seats ! |
| 12 | The serfs had swallowed the slaves , a process made hopelessly obscure by the fact that the same word , servus , often did service for both . |
| 13 | He could bloody stay for all I care ! |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you can stay for that one if you like . |
| 15 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 16 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 17 | Aloud he said he would stay for another night and take her place on the constituency slate . |
| 18 | Oh I 'll stay for this . |
| 19 | This is an issue which Western Governments and unions are only really beginning to grapple with in the context of the Single European market , and for many that is where the debate will stay for some time . |
| 20 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 21 | The core will stay for some time . |
| 22 | They may suggest that you have no confidence in your argument or even that you ca n't make up your mind — and that does not make for much of an argument . |
| 23 | What choice would you make for each and why ? |
| 24 | But see the difficulties the riders will make for each other . |
| 25 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 26 | Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony . |
| 27 | It would only make for more difficulties later on . |
| 28 | The fact is , transition to the simpler rules will involve costs , though at the end of the day it will make for more cost effective regulation than the present encyclopedias . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Slower speeds , fewer accidents ’ Parked cars on roads surrounding Darlington Memorial Hospital would make for fewer car accidents . |
| 30 | Here was an example of an AE who was perfectly " revved " up This is why he was never sacked , even though his bullishness did n't make for enough sales . |