Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 5000 American pros to gather for C.A.A . |
| 2 | They travel in large concentrated groups to search for food , particularly when herding shoaling pelagic ( open sea ) fish . |
| 3 | On the facts of Modupe the accused was guilty of inducing his creditors to wait for payment when he had obtained credit by stating that he owned property when he did not and by exaggerating his employment status . |
| 4 | This week local Nature Trusts are asking volunteers to visit woods to search for hazlenuts that have been nibbled by dormice . |
| 5 | The signalman went down the steps to search for signs of the visitor but there was no one about . |
| 6 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 7 | In my ordinary use of words to stand for sensations my words are ‘ tied up with my natural expressions of sensation ’ . |
| 8 | The realists , insofar as they advocated training and expertise in the specialized areas of law , generally supported this programme and a number of prominent realists left law schools to work for Roosevelt in Washington . |
| 9 | The problem with the former , i.e. the standard on depreciation , is that it requires organizations to provide for depreciation of fixed assets having a finite useful life . |
| 10 | And there will be opportunities to apply for support from the British Film Institute and elsewhere erm in order that we can expand er what we 're doing in that area and I , I just wanted to let the board know about that and to say that erm er this is the route that I 'm currently taking and erm I will be reporting to them when there are specific developments and that I hope that you approve of er me attempting to expand our provision in this area . |
| 11 | An important motivator for units to apply for trust status was the freedom to borrow from the public and private sectors to finance capital investment . |
| 12 | Shortages mean supply teachers are acting as permanent class teachers , leaving schools with no reserves to cover for sickness . |
| 13 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 14 | Ng ( 1987 ) used daily data for the period 1981–6 on the near contract for the S&P500 and VLCI indices and five currencies to look for Granger causality between spot and futures prices . |
| 15 | and drop their heads to sniff for tracks . |
| 16 | So it 's going to take a very long time , because it has been male orientated , but until we get the attitude of the work place , which is encouraging their piers to apply for jobs instead of , oh , of course , I do n't think I will apply for that job . |
| 17 | We will enable small schools to apply for GM status in groups . |
| 18 | Each LEA has a supply of teachers who are sent in to schools to cover for absences of regular teaching staff . |
| 19 | Nebot was handicapped even there , however , by the hostile campaign conducted by the right-wing populist Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz , eliminated in the first round , who urged his supporters to vote for Durán . |
| 20 | The Labour spokesman , John McFall , the MP for Dumbarton , claimed that the increases in cost of legal aid represented an artificial blip because the recession was forcing lawyers ' offices to press for payment on accounts . |
| 21 | In an attempt to encourage drivers to opt for cars with converters , or to have them fitted on older models , some European countries are offering tax incentives . |
| 22 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 23 | There will be much looking at books to hunt for pictures to identify objects on the nature table and to help with model-making . |
| 24 | Then send the animals to hunt for food . |
| 25 | In some cases there may be a need to introduce steps to allow for movement to a higher level . |
| 26 | Dixon , who campaigned upon the promise to " clean City Hall out not with a broom , but a shovel " , had been the first of the candidates to call for Barry 's resignation . |
| 27 | In repeated calls for a spiritual crusade by believers to reclaim for Christianity the states of Europe which had been lost to communism , the Pope attacked abortion , implicitly criticizing the Sejm |
| 28 | China may also need satellite pictures to watch for troop movements on borders . |
| 29 | It is possible to extend Friedman 's reconciliation of the broad principles of rationality and the perceived facts about the relationship between movements in nominal spending and real variables to allow for rationality of expectations . |
| 30 | Last month we reported that Venice 's churches might have to be closed except during services because of a shortage of funds to pay for custodians . |