Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) by an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies , or |
| 2 | ( b ) an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies . |
| 3 | The main proof Van Laue offers for this argument is the polarisation of society between global conflict and a backward society that made a liberal constitution impossible . |
| 4 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 5 | The water level is automatically reduced to normal if the machine over-fills for some reason . |
| 6 | The special Lok-style which Golding devises for this purpose differs considerably from the style he uses towards the end of the novel , when the point of view shifts to homo sapiens . |
| 7 | Therefore , retirement constitutes for many people the end of an important element of life . |
| 8 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 9 | Acid and pepsin outputs for each gastrin releasing peptide infusion rate were calculated by taking the mean of the second and third 15 minute collections . |
| 10 | This goes for all hair lengths . ’ |
| 11 | The same goes for all styles and all periods . |
| 12 | The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow goes for such audience participation in a big way . |
| 13 | And the same goes for those creatures like them who are of our kind though not of our species … |
| 14 | Well if Steve goes for this interview he 's working till , he 'll not be in till half past eight because he says all that week he can gain four hours work because erm he 's found out you do n't have to finish after two hours , you can work as much you like , finish at ten o'clock at night if you want . |
| 15 | While some services may be cheaper , others may be very much more expensive ; and the same goes for any goods you buy in the shops . |
| 16 | ( This reference to the task of childhood is rather my own effort to develop Spinoza 's own richly fruitful but rather abstract ideas in more concrete terms than a direct report upon what he says — the same goes for some other of my remarks . ) |
| 17 | God longs for all people to come to him like the son returned to the father in the parable . |
| 18 | One longs for more choice , for interpretations that are truly ‘ framed to the life of the words ’ ( to use Byrd 's phrase ) and not bland rehearsals of the notes , for performances that seek to move the listener rather than explore only the music 's sonorous surface . |
| 19 | He craves success the way an alcoholic longs for another drink . |
| 20 | The models are : ( solid line ) the adiabatic CDM with ( dot-dashed line ) the isocurvature CDM , model ( the CMBR points for this model are a factor of 6 smaller than those plotted for the adiabatic model ) ; ( dotted line ) the model with texture plus CDM , . |
| 21 | Once a ridge has developed , it often persists for many weeks . |
| 22 | It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone . |
| 23 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 24 | The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months . |
| 25 | In many cases , these boats have remained in EC waters for many years and have changed ownership several times . |
| 26 | What matters for this purpose is that if it escapes it is likely to do mischief and this is the meaning to be given to ‘ dangerous thing ’ in this context . |
| 27 | ‘ But in adults it 's like a flu that lingers for several weeks . |
| 28 | When you go to cast a vote in France , your ballot paper has two names on it , the name of the candidate for , or at least it has for each party or for each candidate two names . |
| 29 | Erm we have always out any er leaflet erm clearly so that people to put their names on the register erm that is a statutory responsibility erm the expenditure in excess of what we had er done in the past is actually going to be a very very small amount of one officer 's time in redesigning the leaflet erm otherwise the expenditure will remain as it , as it always has for all intents and purposes and I think that answers your question if clearly you have problems about getting people on the electoral register that means there 's something about your own electoral . |
| 30 | ‘ It is clear that when the section 8(6) procedure comes into operation it is for the police officer to make the decision whether the sample to be provided shall be a sample of blood or urine , but the police officer must convey to the defendant that the sample to be required may be of either blood or urine and must give the defendant an opportunity to consider which sample he would prefer to give if the choice were his and any reasons he has for that preference . |