Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an even larger turnout on May 14 when funeral marches for Kang were held in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 2 | In a confused and confusing holiday price structure , it may be useful to translate these figures into pictures , do a Jack Horner on the holiday pie and pluck out some typical plums , pinpoint what the 1990 market offers for £250 per head . |
| 3 | Among sheets from different periods of his career , she offers for sale the series of six ‘ Cold Mountain ’ etchings ( 1991 ) inspired , as were the recent paintings , by Chinese calligraphy and Tang Dynasty poetry . |
| 4 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 5 | At the weekend the Stall offers for sale the usual selection of Catholic newspapers and Catholic Truth Society publications , rosary beads and medals , prayer cards and candles . |
| 6 | Recent contracts have included the Forth Port privatisation ; the Scottish Television and Grampian TV franchises ; the Kenwood and Country Casuals offers for sale ; and the Evode and RHM defence documents . |
| 7 | The capitalist buys the labour power which the worker offers for hire . |
| 8 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 9 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 10 | In this regard , evidence of alternative third party offers for Target should be sought , as well as formal valuations . |
| 11 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
| 12 | This emerges in all its terrifying inexplicability in the fact that the incarnation involves for Jesus humiliation , rejection , and the cross , with the awful cry , ‘ My God , my God , why have you forsaken me ? ’ |
| 13 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 14 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 15 | The advantages to the reader are that he ‘ turns for help to the professional staff ; he learns to appreciate that his needs are not restricted by the limitations of the bookstock of one library . |
| 16 | It 's big , it 's loud and it wears an ill-fitting suit : more ‘ youth ’ telly inanity on REMOTE CONTROL before NME 's own kings of pestilence Collins and Maconie perform more of their light-hearted haircuts , sorry , comic turns for MARK GOODIER . |
| 17 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 18 | For the gesture of revolt begs for understanding . |
| 19 | 1942 Articled to firm of Johannesburg solicitors ; enrols for law degree at Witwatersrand University |
| 20 | Even in his latest film , the hilarious Housesitter which opened in Britain last Friday , it is the bubbly Goldie Hawn , his co-star , who plays for laughs rather than Steve . |
| 21 | One er , who plays for Hull ? |
| 22 | He plays for Rovers now . |
| 23 | But in fairness to Bunce , who plays for Auckland , he has long been resident in New Zealand and had no thoughts of international rugby until approached by Western Samoa , whose 26-strong World Cup squad included only one player still living in the country . |
| 24 | There is a danger in reading the classics , in that they can come to be regarded simply as literature — so always try to look at them as plays for performance — and , it goes without saying , try to see as much theatre as you can . |
| 25 | The 21-year-old who bats number three and bowls medium pace plays for Llandudno and Caernarfonshire want him to strengthen their line-up for tomorrow 's North Wales County Championship derby clash with Anglesey at Bethesda . |
| 26 | Nowadays , he says , he just plays for fun . |
| 27 | That Barlow ( Stuart ? ) who plays for Everton — he ca nt half miss good chances . |
| 28 | Sidney Deane ( Snipes ) , a black street basketball player in Los Angeles , plays for money . |
| 29 | England international Dixon has been ridiculed by the chant , ‘ if Lee Dixon plays for England , so can I ’ , but has so far refused to talk about it . |
| 30 | She will know , furthermore , of the furore brewing in every pub and office in the land , ever since Allan Lamb , who plays for England , bravely explained to my colleagues what Wasim and Whacker — sorry , Waqar — have been getting up to . |