Example sentences of "[to-vb] for more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get you some victims to be included because presumably they want to appeal for more members |
| 2 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 3 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 4 | We do not yet know the implications for job numbers of the reorganisation , but as stated in the AEA Times Bulletin there may be a need to plan for more reductions than previously anticipated . |
| 5 | Send to SCIAF for more information . |
| 6 | If all this leads the controlling group to scream for more money from the Government , and it will inevitably , I suggest they start using the money they have more sensibly and not waste it on their more extravagant schemes . |
| 7 | Correspondence had been received from the green machine and the secretary was asked to write for more information because we were n't convinced with exactly what they were doing . |
| 8 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 9 | The speaker is less likely to gulp for more air in mid-sentence . |
| 10 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |
| 11 | He can help you to look for more people . ’ |
| 12 | Sometimes there is not opportunity to do that work immediately , even though one knows where to look for more information . |
| 13 | Thorfinn said , ‘ If the landings take place on the north side , they 'll have to look for more boats upriver and get themselves across till we can come . ’ |
| 14 | The nuzzling continued as his lips found her own , teasing and provoking her to yearn for more depth in the caress , until suddenly he took possession of her mouth in a forceful kiss that went on and on as though it would last for ever . |
| 15 | Court cases and the resulting media responses given to these new ‘ drug fiends ’ ( to use the phrase coined by Stanley Cohen ( 1973 ) ) verged almost on the hysterical ( see Young 1977 ) , and moral entrepreneurs began to press for more controls and increased action . |
| 16 | The left-wing response is to press for more money to improve these services , make them more relevant to public needs ; the right-wing response is to privatize further — and if the latter is the response you favour , then you have a wonderful excuse for withholding taxes : ’ Why should I pay for services I do n't use ? ’ |
| 17 | Some will wish to press for more neighbourhood educational provision for visually handicapped pupils and will hope that their child can go to school on a daily basis from home like his fully sighted peers . |
| 18 | Coun Richmond asked councillors to vote for more talks with the disabled who he felt had been let down by late changes to the scheme . |
| 19 | Second , the electorate will have every incentive to vote for more government services because they do not pay for them directly and individual tax payments may bear little ( if any ) relationship to the benefits which they may derive from such services . |
| 20 | THE WHITE House 's long-awaited national energy strategy spurns energy conservation and instead urges the country to drill for more oil . |
| 21 | Sometimes it is necessary to campaign for more resources by pointing out deficiencies . |
| 22 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 23 | When they discovered a pair of woman 's shoes they decided to hunt for more clues , even joking that ‘ we might find a body . ’ |
| 24 | Brenda , from Bridlington , says the £800 compensation offered is ‘ derisory ’ and is to fight for more money . |
| 25 | If experience shows them to be wrong , as proved by hard evidence of a growing mountain of unmet need , their only honest course will be to fight for more resources and resign if unsuccessful . |
| 26 | Mandeville , imperious as ever , ignored us as he issued instructions to a bleary-eyed sheriff to send for more men . |
| 27 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 28 | I have already written to BBC to plead for more time for Eldorado . |
| 29 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 30 | His foreign minister , Edouard Shevardnadze , by coincidence chose the day Mrs Thatcher 's greening was declared in a speech to the Royal Society ( 27 September 1988 ) to call for more co-operation in ‘ ecological security ’ . |