Example sentences of "[verb] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants .
2 If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer .
3 Any well-drafted transfer will therefore provide for the transfer of the right to sue for such breaches .
4 Remaining stocks ( in electrical equipment , mostly ) are being burned , but traces will remain for many years .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group :
8 There 'll be a great big clamour I sho I should think for those seats !
9 The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet .
10 Well he 's so badly parked you see , he 's got to wait for both traffics to go whereas I could go easily
11 We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January .
12 Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes .
13 We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready .
14 ‘ We will not stop ( reforms ) to wait for any decisions from the G7 , whether we receive aid or not , ’ he told reporters .
15 Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern .
16 But the promotion of Gillian Shephard to the Cabinet should more than compensate for any misgivings ’ , Sangster said .
17 Places reserved for the burial of cremated remains were not likely to be filled for many years — if ever .
18 ( 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 .
19 ( b ) by an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies , or
20 ( b ) an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies .
21 At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations .
22 At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations .
23 This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain .
24 At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier .
25 FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing .
26 Is the current illness the consequence of side-effects from medication or treatment prescribed for former illnesses ?
27 The second is that the rules may be those that apply to formal , written language but they may then be prescribed for all circumstances .
28 Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk .
29 Subject to a special fee being prescribed for some applications , the plaint fee includes all other interlocutory applications ( see Appendix II to County Court Fees Order 1982 as amended — at back of book ) .
30 Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal .
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