Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 2 | Mr Bouverie was a solicitor , Peter said , but he had wanted to be a priest , had intended to try for ordination if cancer had not prevented it . |
| 3 | Her faithful shadow , a Yorkshire terrier called Heathcliffe , was just as confused ; and the time that we had arranged to meet for lunch was fast approaching . |
| 4 | They 'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he had n't been able to wait . |
| 5 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 6 | These are , the chapter says , creating new pressures for the extension of joint regulation which ‘ inevitably raise the question whether existing institutions can be developed to provide for employee involvement at this level , or whether new institutions are needed . ’ |
| 7 | The ThinkPad 720C with 4Mb and 160Mb removable disk is expected to go for $4,700 . |
| 8 | In cases in which pain and suffering is not expected to continue for life the court has to form a view as to how long it is likely to continue . |
| 9 | Entropy measures the expected surprise of a situation , and all these algorithms are designed to search for explanations which make the world appear more coherent and less surprising . |
| 10 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 11 | Only after receiving assurances that the Emperor would neither be embarrassed nor be expected to apologize for atrocities committed by Japanese forces did Miyazawa consent to the visit . |
| 12 | Curtailment cover should be included to compensate for days lost if you have to cut short your holiday and return early because of illness or death in the family . |
| 13 | The new constitution is expected to provide for elections to replace the non-party NRC elected in February 1989 . |
| 14 | A seventeenth-century central panel of a triptych depicting the Crucifixion by Pieter Lastman is estimated at £180–200,000 ( $325–360,000 ) , while a forest landscape by Jan Brueghel the Elder is expected to sell for £80–120,000 ( $150–220,000 ) . |
| 15 | A George II ebonised small bracket timepiece by George Graham of London is expected to sell for £10–15,000 ( $18–25,000 ) and a Victorian engraved giltmetal , malachite and lapis lazuli miniature mantel timepiece in the form of a Chiffonier , by Thomas Cole , is estimated at £7–10,000 ( $12,500–18,000 ) . |
| 16 | This sale of British drawings and watercolours will have at its hub ‘ The Splügen Pass ’ by J.M.W.Turner ( pencil and watercolour with scratching out , 292x451 mm ) , which is estimated to fetch £250–350,000 ( $450–630,000 ) , and Thomas Gainsborough 's ‘ A peasant family going to market ’ ( black chalk and stump , grey and brown wash heightened with white on brown paper , 410x533 mm ) , which is expected to sell for £300–400,000 ( $550–725,000 ) . |
| 17 | Frank Auerbach 's ‘ Railway Arches Bethnal Green II ’ , measuring 109x138cm , is signed and dated ‘ 59 and is estimated at £180–250,000 ( $315–440,000 ) , while Ron Kitaj 's ‘ Primer of Motives I ( Intuition of Irregularity ) ’ is a perfect square ( 151.5x151.5cm ) executed in New York in 1965 and is expected to sell for £150–200,000 ( $260–350,000 ) . |
| 18 | The feature of this sale of Nineteenth-century Continental pictures , drawings and watercolours is a painting by Gustave Moreau entitled ‘ Prometheus Bound ’ , which is expected to sell for £300–500,000 ( $530–900,000 ) . |
| 19 | A masterful view of the bacino di San Marco and the Dogana by Michele Marieschi is expected to sell for Sch 3,300,000–3,500,000 ( £166,500–176,600 ; $323,000–342,600 ) . |
| 20 | Known as the ‘ Rockefeller Murals ’ , they are expected to sell for $100,000 to 150,000 ( £51,500–77,300 ) . |
| 21 | Established fashion names have also looked to workwear for inspiration : Stussy 's heavy army-type hooded tops . |
| 22 | Mr Bergg said the number of people expected to apply for emergency housing aid in Darlington this year was 629 . |
| 23 | Some are expected to apply for permission to reintroduce selection , joining the 150 grammar schools reprieved by Labour 's defeat . |
| 24 | South Africa ( a founder FAO member which had withdrawn in 1964 ) was expected to apply for readmission , but withdrew after the Organization for African Unity ( OAU ) had indicated that such a move was " premature " . |
| 25 | If Oswestry 's bid fails Town are expected to apply for membership of Wrexham area 's Read Construction Welsh National League or Richards Builders Mid Wales League . |
| 26 | Large numbers of recruits to English would offset the small numbers who were expected to apply for French . |
| 27 | Not only are we all primed to look for regularities , we tend to perceive the same regularities . |
| 28 | Scotland 's Under-21 side will contain six First Division players and one from the Second Division in an experimental gathering designed to look for players eligible to take part in the summer 's world invitation event in Toulon . |
| 29 | I 've known him since our youth days and we became quite friendly when we were picked to play for Scotland 's Under-20 side together a few years back . |
| 30 | At the county level representatives from lower levels were permitted to vote for candidates ; the secret ballot obtained only at this level . |