Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 2 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 3 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 4 | For example , a work placement involves trawling for candidates , testing and form-filling and preliminary sifts before the interview followed by induction and training after the interview . |
| 5 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 6 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 7 | The amendment stated that the USA would attempt to dissuade any NATO ally from making force reductions , and that , should this attempt fail , the USA would seek to persuade other NATO allies to compensate for the resultant shortfall in overall NATO force levels . |
| 8 | Certainly the criticism Mister C has received for not knowing what he 's talking about , for faking it or just for coming late to the whole shamanic party seems a little sniffy and actually beside the point . |
| 9 | As a result of that and later Directives there are now many cases in which the Registrar must cause to be published in the Gazette notice that he has received for registration various types of documents . |
| 10 | An example of a limitation clause is where a supplier of computer software limits his liability for faulty software to the licence fee he has received for that software . |
| 11 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 12 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |
| 13 | If life has developed for the enjoyment that it brings , and it started with the existence of a single cell , then it is reasonable to suppose that the single cell was capable of the detection of an extremely small measure of ‘ pleasure ’ which it could experience by satisfying some ‘ desire ’ . |
| 14 | Because of this , wide support has developed for assessment procedures which are more positive and educational in their orientation . |
| 15 | This essential merging of primary rate and basic rate services will be achieved using the ‘ fractional Megastream ’ technology that the company 's Martlesham Laboratory on Martlesham Heath , Suffolk has developed for squeezing multiple ISDN channels over ordinary copper circuits . |
| 16 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering systems it now offers . |
| 17 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering solutions it now offers . |
| 18 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 19 | Courtaulds Nippon Paint , a 50/50 joint venture between Courtaulds Coatings in the UK and Nippon Paint in Japan , will bring together the coil coatings technology of both companies and will make available to European customers the best Japanese technology and the systems Nippon Paint has developed for providing fast-response customer service . |
| 20 | And who wants to fall for that ? |
| 21 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 22 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
| 23 | ‘ She has to go for some more treatment , ’ Jack Foley said . |
| 24 | There was a ripe collection of April Fool items flying around the industry this year , with BICC Plc 's BICC Information Systems & Services promoting its underware , the first two items being BISS-SLIP for Synchronised Linked Internet Protocol and BISS-NICS Network Integrity Circuit Service , and Chase Research Inc of Nashville , Tennessee threatening to knock MS-DOS , Unix and NT off their perches with a resurrected CPM/93 version of the late lamented CP/M operating system — and comes on 300 8″ floppies , bundled with an 8″ floppy drive for $100 ; but the prize has to go for Hewlett-Packard Ltd , which yesterday announced new security features for its Vectra personal computers — User Fingerprint Recognition on all models , and both Photographic Recognition — a tiny camera in the middle of the screen that recognises you even when you come back with a tan , and Odour Recognition — designated users must not change their perfume or after shave — on 80486 models ; not recognised ? |
| 25 | Huntingtower , a story of exotic intrigue , is Ruritanian in tone if not in geography , with the exiled princess imprisoned in an ugly pseudo-Tudor mansion at the instigation of Paul , who needs the jewels she has guarded for her fellow-exiles for his plots against the Evallonian government . |
| 26 | if the driver has stopped for the purpose of complying with regulation 8 or regulation 10 ( to accord precedence and not overtake ) ; |
| 27 | ( At his voice she has stopped for him , he catches her up . ) |
| 28 | With a jolt of excitement , as if his heart has stopped for a moment , his mind leaps to the image of a pyramid-shaped mountain . |
| 29 | As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors . |
| 30 | Each group needs to see for itself the importance of indirect and hard-to-define influences . |