Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 Payment is at the discretion of your Manager who will tell you whether or not you qualify for such a payment .
3 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 .
4 What cause can you have for such doubt ? ’
5 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 .
6 Could we arrange for such offenders to have a sound thrashing ?
7 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 .
8 The theory of Darwin and Fisher is the only coherent explanation we possess for such characters .
9 Neither the wording of the section nor its underlying purpose seems to me to call for such an anomalous distinction .
10 Do you suppose they cater for such a range of sizes
11 Her owner would , I 'm sure let her go for such a good cause .
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 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 ’ .
15 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 .
16 Nicholson looked squarely into the chubby man 's eyes , scarcely able to disguise the contempt he felt for such a soft , weak handshake .
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