Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expenses incurred by the college were all incurred necessarily in order properly to provide for these pupils . |
| 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 | There has been some difficulty in producing a response panel sophisticated enough to allow for this range whilst still being easily understood and accessible to a child . |
| 4 | Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process . |
| 5 | Australian Cricket Board manager Graham Halbish said doctors had ordered Waugh not to bowl for several months after diagnosing a stress fracture of his lower back — a legacy of the recent Ashes tour of England . |
| 6 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 7 | 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day . |
| 8 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 9 | ‘ Promise me , Jane , not to look for another job . |
| 10 | willi , willing and a a kindly nature but we if it 's in the middle of a game you know , and er , you know how you are when you 're playing a game well they 'd fetch me away to run for some cheese for an old lady . |
| 11 | In the face of their insistence and that of Arab League negotiators , he warned them not to settle for any deal which did not involve the withdrawal of 30,000 to 40,000 Syrian troops based in west Beirut and the hinterland . |
| 12 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 13 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 14 | The members re-emphasised the decision , taken at a previous meeting , not to pay for this treatment . ’ |
| 15 | Laughton pledged not to bid for any Chemics star for at least a season — unless they wanted to sell . |
| 16 | Us women are not to blame for this AIDS |
| 17 | She was as surprised as he was , and went off to look for some servants . |
| 18 | She would begin at once to look for another post . |
| 19 | Both to provide for some self-containment , and thereby minimize the degree of out-commuting . |
| 20 | What happens is this : it is swimming along on a near-horizontal plane when it spots a morsel of food , which it can see quite comfortably directly below it in shallow-enough water because its eyes are tilted downwards to allow for this facility . |
| 21 | Make two or three tracings of the design to enable you to experiment with various groupings and arrangements , and also to allow for any mistakes you make in cutting , especially on your first attempt . |
| 22 | After the Sanctus and before the elevation of the Host , the reader is bidden to remember Christ 's Passion and his own sin , and also to pray for all estates in the land from Pope and King to the " poure and smale " , for good harvests to sustain them and for entry into God 's joy at death . |
| 23 | The report 's author , Sir Ieuan Maddock , a former chief scientist at the Department of Industry , says the Ministry of Defence is partly to blame for this stagnation in ‘ technology transfer ’ . |
| 24 | Phone call from our School Nurse to let us know that the School Doctor , who had to cancel medicals because of illness , is out of hospital but will not be back to work for some time . |
| 25 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 26 | This requires choosing the time to switch from the near to the next near contract , and how to adjust for any differences in price level between the near and the next near contracts . |
| 27 | The lights , which once seemed to be there to compensate for any lackings in the performers ' abilities , are now secondary to the punch of the music . |
| 28 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 29 | increase general awareness of the Commissioner and her role and to ensure , as far as reasonably practicable , that trade union members will have access to information about the assistance the Commissioner can provide and how to apply for that assistance |
| 30 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |