Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sherrin recalled the actor occasionally phoning in with ideas for the monologues , but Crawford 's desire to deliver a eulogy to Sir Winston Churchill after the wartime Prime Minister 's funeral met with a cold response from his producer . |
| 2 | It was also over 50 per cent more than that laid down in codes for the relief of famine as a basic subsistence diet ( Kynch 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 4 | His girlfriend , Hazel , had come down from Leeds for the weekend . |
| 5 | Most people , he felt , have an altruistic streak in them — irrespective of social background , culture or experience — and they should have the opportunity , at least once in their lives , to work together with others for the benefit of the community . |
| 6 | At first they continued to rail against the regime , but Simpson 's ardour had cooled enough by July for the council to order his release , on condition that he did not come within ten miles of London . |
| 7 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 8 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 9 | LANCASHIRE 'S prolific run-scorer Neil Fairbrother ( left ) and Middlesex 's exciting young spinner Phil Tufnell get into the Christmas spirit before joining up with the rest of their England colleagues who fly off on Monday for the winter tour to India . |
| 10 | They said something like that , they seemed fairly relaxed erm now what numbering is is this one that there would be any value opening up to others for the whole thing |
| 11 | We hope that the more frequent training schedule will enable us to get students out teaching classes earlier in the course , returning later to top-up for the examination . |
| 12 | September to October , " the suicide months " , posed a special hazard as the heat and humidity built up in preparation for the rainy season . |
| 13 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 14 | Problem solving : Given some image coordinates I , the robot looks up in R for the pair ( I' , J' ) with I' closest to I. It moves all joint angles to J' . |
| 15 | Even after the scene with El-Jorr , Hurley did nothing to tighten up on security for the NARCOG operation . |
| 16 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 17 | Captain Faulknor was still concerned about the ship 's speed and said to Jenking , ‘ that it would be better to stand out to sea for the night . ’ |
| 18 | A point to note about technique is that when you actually go round the mark in strong winds the daggerboard should be retracted first then the mast track moved back in preparation for the reach . |
| 19 | Even when published , aspects of APPN networking remain covered by IBM patents , and Data Connection says it is negotiating with the mainframe manufacturer and hopes to have this sorted out in time for the InterOp show later this month . |
| 20 | The name of June Shaw , of Lakemba , in Australia , really deserves to be picked out in gold for the way she drew my attention ( and that of all our readers ) to an easy way of making cables . |
| 21 | Work will be carried out on applications for the following areas : automatic identification ; financial forecasting ; industrial information processing ; process control and monitoring ; condition monitoring and sound assessment ; and neurodata , which is concerned with data exploration or mining . |
| 22 | Part of the work being carried out by IMS for the Science and Engineering Research Council involves a short follow-up study in Spring 1985 , to check on the short term destinations of research students , their salary levels , and the extent to which those looking for work in September 1984 managed to find it ( see 1.3 ) . |
| 23 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 24 | According to the survey , carried out by MORI for the Woolwich Building Society , the average monthly mortgage repayment in the province is £130 , compared to the UK average of £236 . |
| 25 | According to a report in the Guardian of June 20 the attack was probably carried out in retaliation for the killing by security forces on June 18 of Mohammed Abdullah Bangroo , field commander of the Hizbul-Mujahidin , one of the largest guerrilla groups operating in Kashmir . |
| 26 | Rangers ' pitch will now be lifted at the earliest opportunity and a new one laid in its place , so long as the work can be carried out in time for the new season . |
| 27 | Sir Alf can now concentrate again on building for the future instead of defending the past . ’ |
| 28 | Even when a cabinet minister he found time to write round for subscriptions for the Birmingham Unionists and to attend their routine meetings . |
| 29 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 30 | Led by Geoff Miller as Botham was attending Viv Richards ' wedding — to which fifty people were invited and two thousand turned up — they beat the Leeward Islands and then moved on to Antigua for the inaugural Test at St John 's , West Indies ' first new Test ground since the opening series of 1929–30 . |