Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remaining stocks ( in electrical equipment , mostly ) are being burned , but traces will remain for many years . |
| 2 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 3 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 4 | Normally the others would remain for another hour or so . |
| 5 | The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group : |
| 6 | What does she think for that matter ? |
| 7 | There 'll be a great big clamour I sho I should think for those seats ! |
| 8 | Aloud he said he would stay for another night and take her place on the constituency slate . |
| 9 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 10 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 11 | This is an issue which Western Governments and unions are only really beginning to grapple with in the context of the Single European market , and for many that is where the debate will stay for some time . |
| 12 | The core will stay for some time . |
| 13 | But see the difficulties the riders will make for each other . |
| 14 | It would only make for more difficulties later on . |
| 15 | The fact is , transition to the simpler rules will involve costs , though at the end of the day it will make for more cost effective regulation than the present encyclopedias . ’ |
| 16 | Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony . |
| 17 | ‘ Slower speeds , fewer accidents ’ Parked cars on roads surrounding Darlington Memorial Hospital would make for fewer car accidents . |
| 18 | Here was an example of an AE who was perfectly " revved " up This is why he was never sacked , even though his bullishness did n't make for enough sales . |
| 19 | Like many others , it too had its great hall in which the classes did sometimes mingle for such festivities as Mr Lyle 's Christmas celebration . |
| 20 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 21 | Their contract had come to an end ( see Chapter 14 , Frustration , below ) and they were in the same position as any other free seamen in Port Philip : ‘ they might stipulate for any amount of remuneration ; and , considering the circumstances , £40 might not have been an exorbitant sum ’ — per Erle J. |
| 22 | No I will not want for this company again . |
| 23 | Because yes , we did say we were n't going to use tropical markets , erm perhaps in the view of some of the things Bob Plumtree 's been saying , perhaps that was a little bit premature , perhaps we would want for some countries tropical woods , might want to reconsider , but erm I think that 's something for the future , that 's not for this afternoon . |
| 24 | If this is in the form of a loose box to which the cow can adapt for some days before calving , then there is inevitably less stress . |
| 25 | The studies reached a common conclusion that some physical failures or individual errors can be foreseen , and that improved organisation and management should compensate for such errors . |
| 26 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
| 27 | The first three also damage stratospheric ozone , while ozone produced in the troposphere does not compensate for this loss , but in fact behaves as another greenhouse gas . |
| 28 | If , for example , three known positions are input to the program before each session with the pantograph the software can compensate for any changes in the expected readings due to wear and tear or temperature . |
| 29 | I do n't know whether that multiplies the shielding — I ca n't regurge that info — but sure as hell they 'll cover for each other ! |
| 30 | This reserve will be used to offset any losses which may arise for each trade or gang during the progress of the contract . |