Example sentences of "for [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
| 2 | The difference is only that for postverbals the property complex qualifies the E ( and in surface terms we have an intransitive verb phrase ) , while with adverbals the property complex is qualified by the E ( in surface terms , a transitive verb phrase ) . |
| 3 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 4 | His early pupils practised for hours every Saturday afternoon amongst the bales of cotton in one of the firm 's warehouses . |
| 5 | ( If you find yourself meditating for hours every day , perhaps you should ask whether you are avoiding other aspects of your life . ) |
| 6 | They pump iron for hours every morning . |
| 7 | These were the occasions which enabled them to display for hours the rigid immobility for which they were famous throughout Europe . |
| 8 | For hours the magician swam around , with the normally chatty parrot perched silently on his shoulder . |
| 9 | For hours the planet had grown no larger in Miles Engado 's faceplate ; seeming instead to retreat as he fell towards it . |
| 10 | For hours the dark , dry |
| 11 | Out of costume , he wore Lucie 's cut-down clothes , and would watch for hours the barons of raw meat swing and drip , swing and drip , over wood planks dyed permanently blood-red . |
| 12 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
| 14 | For generations the people of industrial South Wales took to the uplands separating the Valleys for fresh air and recreation . |
| 15 | For generations the Scots kept their whisky to themselves , distilling it in homes and farmhouses throughout the Highlands , Islands and glens alike . |
| 16 | For generations the place where all the more mature locals have come to buy their clothes . |
| 17 | Even for objects the size of stars , the attractive force of gravity can win over all the other forces and cause the star to collapse . |
| 18 | For Marenches the most dramatic moment of the interview was when the Shah returned to him and said , " You do understand , my dear count , that I can never fire on my own people . " |
| 19 | These two offices , coupled with the less formal influence Gloucester derived from his closeness to the king , ensured that for contemporaries the duke 's importance was national rather than purely regional . |
| 20 | For contemporaries the moral that they order these things better in France was particularly easy to draw , for Neptune had been independently and at the same time predicted by U. J. J. Le Verrier . |
| 21 | These two offices , coupled with the less formal influence Gloucester derived from his closeness to the king , ensured that for contemporaries the duke 's importance was national rather than purely regional . |
| 22 | By the urbanity of his almost patrician deportment , Coleman tended greatly to raise the standard of the profession in public esteem , and he powerfully contributed to obtain for veterinarians the grade of commissioned officers in the army . |
| 23 | New venue : Crook Local History Society has a new venue for meetings the Royal Sun . |
| 24 | The BBC Scottish SO under their conductor-in-chief Jerzy Maksymiuk are firmly in charge of accompaniments for the Hyperion project , and for openers the gift Piers Lane ( born London , lived in Australia ) has the spotlight . |
| 25 | How this shortfall is to be accounted for forms the focus of the survey and analysis which follow . |
| 26 | Finally , I 'd like to mention that we shall be recommending for shareholders a one for one scrip issue . |
| 27 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 28 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 29 | It is the charity that really gets things done for birds the countryside — action for birds , on your behalf . |
| 30 | For Westerners the sense of shame and embarrassment has become strongly associated with nakedness and the proprieties of dress and attitudes towards nudity ( especially among conventional Protestants ) . |