Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 2 | Although the system works brilliantly in most women , it can easily be disrupted — by stress or crash dieting for instance . |
| 3 | Their accuracy still depends upon the correctness of our assumptions about causal order and the operation of other variables ; if we had either specified the causal order incorrectly , or failed to control for other important variables , the coefficients would be meaningless . |
| 4 | There is not point arranging to play squash if you dislike the game , or vowing to go for a jog each day , if you hate running . |
| 5 | The Communist youth paper , Junge Welt , printed a complaint by show-business personalities that colleagues had been arrested , harassed or forbidden to appear for defying orders not to read out an appeal for reforms during their performances . |
| 6 | In the Companies Act 1981 an option was given for certain smaller companies ( provided they are not public companies ) to produce modified or shortened accounts for filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 7 | In bibliographic databases , it is important to consider whether pupils will want or need to search for a particular author , a particular location or a particular format such as " book " or " video " . |
| 8 | The outgoing partner who is to continue in practice as a solicitor must comply with s84(1) of the Solicitors Act : For the purposes of facilitating the services of notices and other documents , every solicitor who has in force , or has applied for , a practising certificate shall give notice to the Society of any change in his place or places of business before the expiration of 14 days from the date on which the change takes effect . |
| 9 | Our eyes seek out the inhabitants fleeing distracted , or returning to look for the dead . |
| 10 | Well there 's only one way to deal with them , pay you on a monthly basis , or stop working for them . |
| 11 | The £100,000 is lent to an underlying company or used to subscribe for share capital in the underlying company . |
| 12 | This was a major objective of burial societies and other forms of insurance ; irreplaceable possessions were often pawned or sold to pay for a funeral . |
| 13 | He did not want to attract attention by being the first or last to appear for dinner , so he left things until five minutes to eight , by which time he had heard several other guests moving about . |
| 14 | Dwyer is monitoring the continuing rumpus over whether players should be involved with their provinces in 15-a-side competitions or opt to play for Australia in the sevens tournaments . |
| 15 | For comparison , Toglia , Payne , Nightingale and Ceci ( 1989 ) found that the threat of taking a blood sample alone did not appear to affect overall levels of performance at list learning , face recognition for a nurse who did not in fact take a blood sample or cued recall for an earlier conversation . |
| 16 | John Wimber has pointed out that other factors are also involved when a congregation , or housegroup meet for worship . |
| 17 | You 're always gon na have objections , I think you 've seen so far , throughout the whole sales process , some are more awkward than others but you got by them but the majority will come when you ask for the business , or go to ask for the business . |
| 18 | This MAY be fair criticism — but we do nt know what he s being told or asked to do for the team . |
| 19 | I am utterly unable to understand how the retention by the trustees in their own hands of a portion of the income which they receive in order to pay lawful claims upon the fund , and charges which probably the lady herself would have had to pay or get paid for her , if she were resident in New York , and which the trustees will have to account for fully , can change the " origin or parentage " of the residue of the income received , lodged with the bankers of the beneficiaries . |
| 20 | Nobody will come looking for you if you do n't get up in the morning or fail to appear for a 9 o'clock lecture . |
| 21 | Suttons ' ‘ Redmate ’ can either be eaten as a salad onion or left to mature for mild , red bulbs ( below right ) |
| 22 | One can define , for some probe order , the consistency measure Σ c f ∘ ( c ) for the total fit of all the clones to the probes , where f ∘ ( c ) is the fit of the clone c , either as defined above or extended to allow for probes having a length or being repetitive . |
| 23 | As they munched hungrily he learned how Tommy at the age of eighteen had been given the choice of two years at His Majesty 's pleasure or volunteering to fight for King and country . |
| 24 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 25 | Perhaps it 's a one-off you made yourself or had made for you , or maybe you run up spectacular gowns as a matter of course . |
| 26 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 27 | Some people had copies of public documents ( such as the agreement by the shaikhs of 1946 ) which they inherited or had copied for their own use and enjoyment . |
| 28 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 29 | For we can easily imagine a legislative structure that would produce compromise statutes mechanically , as a function of the different opinions about strict liability or racial discrimination or abortion among the various legislators , without any legislator being asked or required to vote for the compromise as a package . |
| 30 | In collaboration with the Garden 's educational services , we should create an educational resource centre , for use by teachers undertaking courses or attached to RBGE for particular projects . |