Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for such " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fear is that I am not likely to serve on the Standing Committee , although I volunteer for such duty if the opportunity be there . |
| 2 | One such was an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman , one of the body of men employed to enforce local traffic and marketing regulations , rules about the disposal of garbage — all those minor matters which make for such amenity as the growing towns manage to achieve . |
| 3 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |
| 4 | Any model of the mind which allows for such a possibility is not a simple one , and hints at , if it does not actually affirm , the existence of the unconscious . |
| 5 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
| 6 | This and other statements were clear enough , and it seems a little one-sided to attribute causal power to one set of statements — those which encouraged Protestants to reject the O'Neill government — and yet deny causal power to those statements which called for such rejection to be confined within the limits of legality . |
| 7 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 8 | Payment is at the discretion of your Manager who will tell you whether or not you qualify for such a payment . |
| 9 | Throughout the academic year she campaigned for such an appointment to be made until the local authority provided additional money for this post to be advertised . |
| 10 | Most recently , the Cadbury Committee said that it was not persuaded by those who called for such a limitation . |
| 11 | What cause can you have for such doubt ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 13 | Individuals who work for such organisations tend to learn an expertise without experiencing risk ; many do their job adequately , but are not over-ambitious . |
| 14 | However , when we control for such views , the relationship between unemployment experience and preparedness to break the law does not disappear ; in fact , it is almost as strong as it was in the bivariate table : +0.175 among the unalienated and +0.144 among the alienated , or +0.159 on average . |
| 15 | Could we arrange for such offenders to have a sound thrashing ? |
| 16 | The post-Comintern Communist Movement , the Socialist International , international Fascist organizations , and the Green movement ( about which more will be said below ) provide the only models we have for such organizations , and none of these can be currently regarded as successful in global terms . |
| 17 | The theory of Darwin and Fisher is the only coherent explanation we possess for such characters . |
| 18 | Neither the wording of the section nor its underlying purpose seems to me to call for such an anomalous distinction . |
| 19 | Do you suppose they cater for such a range of sizes |
| 20 | Her owner would , I 'm sure let her go for such a good cause . |
| 21 | A sensible way for her to prepare for such an eventuality is to keep a small case already packed and labelled with her name and address in her wardrobe or in a corner of her bedroom where it can be got at easily ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 22 | We can not as readers see this as a fault , since it made for such richness of scene and mood , though Marryat seems to have felt it so . |
| 23 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 24 | Incredible though it seems for such an intelligent man , Carter 's principal error at the beginning was to assume that once the underlying rationale of his energy programme had been explained to , and absorbed by the public , opposition would melt away . |
| 25 | Nicholson looked squarely into the chubby man 's eyes , scarcely able to disguise the contempt he felt for such a soft , weak handshake . |