Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got picked for the washing up detail and with six others swept the kitchen and dining room , drank the dregs from the glasses and bottles and had a conversation with one of the cooks about Beirut . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering systems it now offers . |
| 4 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering solutions it now offers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | if the driver has stopped for the purpose of complying with regulation 8 or regulation 10 ( to accord precedence and not overtake ) ; |
| 7 | The local authority has arranged for the twins to attend some kind of daycare centre . |
| 8 | Pietro Petraroia , soprintendente of the Brera , has arranged for the painting to be temporarily transferred to Milan for a detailed technical and stylistic comparison to be undertaken . |
| 9 | He has arranged for the agency staff to have lunch with the Managing Director and two experts in pollution control from the parent company who have travelled a considerable distance to attend . |
| 10 | Dennis Heslop has arranged for the large ornate circular window to be set up at St. Paul 's church in West Witton near Bishop Auckland . |
| 11 | Crime in Strathclyde has fallen for the ninth consecutive month . |
| 12 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the third month running . |
| 13 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 14 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 15 | At this stage , perhaps because she is unfamiliar with how the words look , she has substituted for the correct letters something which sounds all right but is inaccurate . |
| 16 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but the rate is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 17 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 18 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 19 | The time has come for the politicians to face up to their responsibilities , ’ Mr Rocard said . |
| 20 | THE TIME has come for the egg industry to look forward to the 1990s . |
| 21 | The Foreign Office Minister , Mr William Waldegrave , said : ‘ The message we must get across is that those in the security services , those working for the state , should recognise that a day of reckoning will come for them as it has come for the East Germans and others . ’ |
| 22 | The time has come for the party to choose and , in the final analysis , it has two coherent policies to choose from . |
| 23 | A quick dust , to get rid of the cobwebs , and it 's off to the track , adrenalin pumping , because that time has come for the first track workout of the summer . |
| 24 | Explaining , now , more of the past history of Samavia , Lorestan reveals that the Lost Prince has been found , the time has come for the corrupt government to be overthrown and the message must be carried through Europe that ‘ the lamp is lighted ’ . |
| 25 | Now that the new system of advanced courses is becoming well established the time has come for the work of the Central Support Unit to be absorbed into mainstream SCOTVEC Departments . |
| 26 | The time has come for the Prime Minister to stop playing Conservative party politics with the issues and to rise to the real level of the challenges that confront us in Britain , everyone in Europe and , indeed , every inhabitant of the planet . |
| 27 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 28 | It is the third house Geoffrey , a property developer , has designed for the family . |
| 29 | He arrives on the scene about two minutes after the bell has rung for the start of break , clutching his large black Bible under his arm . |
| 30 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |