Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 2 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 3 | Children are made especially welcome in Leogang — there are lots of activities arranged for them . |
| 4 | Examples of this kind of manipulation are discernible throughout recorded history and occur at all levels of control , from the actions of the relatively insignificant leaders of quite small groups formed for almost any reason , religious or otherwise , to the governments of nations who become powerful enough to dominate the world . |
| 5 | put the contrary view in the form of a dilemma when he said : ‘ Either they were performing this public duty in giving the protection asked for , in which case I think they can not charge , or , which no one suggests , they were at the request of an individual doing something which it was not their duty to do , in which case it seems to me both public policy and section 10 of the County Police Act 1839 , make the contract illegal and void . ’ |
| 6 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 7 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 8 | Fascinated Athelstan watched the strange hand signs which Philippa translated for him . |
| 9 | my skin painted for war-dancing : |
| 10 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 11 | He was pleased with the support received for the practice of joint confirmation and particularly , welcomed the first ever united service for Christian Unity week . |
| 12 | All the keywords can be left in the configuration file , as the parameter given for the keyword HCMAP dictates whether a volume set will be prepared for hard copy or omitted from the hard copy run . |
| 13 | But this , as I have indicated , does not in all cases make for the construction of a more liberal society . |
| 14 | He informed them that Stella had not only had her appendix , but also her gall bladder removed , and that he would be home in time to attend to the next horse trek arranged for Saturday . |
| 15 | Then he coughed a little as if he had embarrassed himself and went on , returning to his normal , slightly facetious manner , ‘ Though not one Mrs Hobbs cared for , I 'm afraid . |
| 16 | It may be argued by analogy that , given the importance under the CPA 1987 placed upon accurate instructions , this should permeate to cases where the buyer sues for economic loss under , for example , s14 of SGA 1979 . |
| 17 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 18 | The futures contract for June expiry stayed close to its ‘ fair value ’ premium of 29 points for most of the day . |
| 19 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 20 | The investor buys a futures contract for around 10% of its value . |
| 21 | With only one domestic index futures contract for the London Stock Exchange ( the FT-SE 100 ) , the creation of synthetic index futures contracts for the UK is not yet possible . |
| 22 | In the absence of transactions costs for trading futures and assuming no risk aversion or preference , the current price of a futures contract for delivery at time T in a competitive market will equal today 's expectation of the spot price at time T , that is , F t = E ( S T ) . |
| 23 | Acrobats , clowns and musicians jostle for your attention . |
| 24 | My sister goes for them |
| 25 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 26 | Naval rating dismissed for drug abuse |
| 27 | EVERY YEAR EXPORTS ACCOUNT FOR 85 PER CENT OF SCOTCH WHISKY SALES , A PROUD RECORD OF CONSISTENCY UNMATCHED BY OTHER INDUSTRIES . |
| 28 | Fish exports account for 90 per cent of the Faroe Islands ' export income . |
| 29 | Acute care operations account for 93 per cent of sales and 94 per cent of profits . |
| 30 | Malaysia , Thailand , Indonesia and Bolivia account for 70 per cent of world output . |