Example sentences of "on [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould accepted the commission for illustrating the volume on birds for Darwin 's Zoology but left before he saw it completed . |
| 2 | The big step is then getting the rest of the Council to take it on board , that 's the big step , you know , leisure , the neighbourhood office 's , I mean the neighbourhood office 's are quite good , I mean they 've got a , they 've got a budget , a development budget , and like in Katherines and Sumners I know that a large proportion of the development budget there went on projects for young people , you know , so there are using there money . |
| 3 | Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud . |
| 4 | Q. You work on projects for major companies . |
| 5 | I started to walk on eggshells for fear of setting him off . ’ |
| 6 | Relying on tablets for the relief of pain without trying to discover its cause can be positively dangerous . |
| 7 | He is now on tablets for life . |
| 8 | I was on tablets for two days and then taken off , just like that . |
| 9 | I 'm not on tablets for |
| 10 | Are you on tablets for Angina . |
| 11 | A spokesperson for the controversial metal band last week declined to comment on reasons for the sudden axing of the tour , fuelling speculation that objections had been made by worried promoters . |
| 12 | Although Myxine shows a single paired branchial opening , another Recent hagfish ( Eptatretus ) has a series of separate openings and this has cast doubt on reasons for associating hagfishes and heterostracans . |
| 13 | A special feature is the commentary in non-technical language on reasons for the different types of transaction and on the commercial and legal relationships they create . |
| 14 | All tests on products for overseas markets need to be interpreted with caution . |
| 15 | This implies tasks based on rules for example arithmetic , or on logic , for example fault finding . |
| 16 | The ministers could not agree on rules for the return to Germany of illegally exported waste . |
| 17 | ‘ John spoke to him about the inadvisability of running errands on racecourses for his warned-off father , and said that if Jason had any information , he should pass it on to him , John Millington . |
| 18 | Building and civil engineering group Costain intended maintaining its dividend total for 1991 at 12¼p when calling on shareholders for £79m last April . |
| 19 | The outturn tops the £1½m forecast in December , when calling on shareholders for £3m — with a 1-for-3 rights issue at 43p a share — at the same time as announcing the acquisition of Mediterranean flotilla holiday specialist Sunsail International , for £8m in shares . |
| 20 | He said the company had not called on shareholders for funds since 1985 and had spent recent years chasing funds to build up income producing assets . |
| 21 | ALBERT Martin Holdings , the Nottingham-based supplier of underwear to Marks & Spencer , is calling on shareholders for £4.17m with a 1-for-3 rights issue at 70p a share , against a price of 88p , down 2 , in the market . |
| 22 | Queens Moat Houses , chaired by former estate agent John Bairstow , expanded rapidly in the UK and on the continent , funded by seven calls on shareholders for extra cash in less than ten years . |
| 23 | PROPERTY group Brixton Estates today called on shareholders for £100.7m to help buy and develop land as the market picks up . |
| 24 | Cashcall : Property giant MEPC is calling on shareholders for £221.9m to refurbish and re-develop properties , buy new ones and strengthen its balance sheet . |
| 25 | Kingfisher is calling on shareholders for as much as £313 million in a two-part rights issue to part finance the deal . |
| 26 | THE advertising and marketing services group , Gold Greenlees Trott , is calling on shareholders for £14.7 million in a one-for-three rights issue aimed at providing elbow-room for more acquisitions . |
| 27 | A global effort to combat its spread has been mounted by health care staff , international groups , governments and top-level policymakers and in January 1988 , health ministers and/or colleagues from 148 countries ( representing 95% of the world 's population ) attended the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention in London , organised jointly by WHO and the UK Health Ministry . |
| 28 | The main gains are a better staff-inmate ratio , and a greater focus on programmes for inmate recreation and on putting the prisoners ' time to better use , apart from compulsory work . |
| 29 | Their views on programmes for urban renewal tend to follow similar lines to their views on welfare , with large-scale intervention not seen as a public responsibility . |
| 30 | The comments by Field and Verney concluded with a strong recommendation that every resource of television production should be lavished on programmes for children ‘ if they are to watch intelligently and develop into ready viewers for that ‘ better ’ Television being demanded by the critics ' and sought after by the industry itself . |