Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 2 | Write down examples of when you last ( i ) took on extra work in order to provide something for the addict in your life . |
| 3 | Its cries of distress saddened her for years . |
| 4 | Round , high-cheeked , boyish but with a scholar 's high brow , it was the face of a man of twenty-seven years of age nerving himself for an extreme deed , a supreme effort of will . |
| 5 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 6 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 7 | However fascinating the ‘ social gospel ’ has proved to historians , it was not the most important aspect of the ministry to Nonconformity : this was the need to improve the quality of ministers ' education in order to equip them for the position they had achieved in English life . |
| 8 | God had given his Spirit to his anointed king in order to equip him for his leadership of the people . |
| 9 | The notion is analogous to our understanding that we need to save up money in order to exchange it for something we wish to buy . |
| 10 | All the Secretaries of State had educational training and experience in government to fit them for their posts . |
| 11 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 12 | If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment . |
| 13 | Labour has carried out a trawl of Departments in order to find something for their Labour colleagues in Newcastle to do and to justify giving them a huge bureaucracy and their own budget . |
| 14 | There has been a fall out with the grass court tournaments as the better juniors are now seeking matches on cement to prepare them for the nationals at Nottingham . |
| 15 | The girls at work admired her for living with a man and not being married to him , but she could forgo that pleasure , she thought , for the baby 's sake . |
| 16 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 17 | So also are promotional prospects , and future managers within the practice should be identified and given suitable training in order to equip them for greater responsibility . |
| 18 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 19 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
| 20 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 21 | ALFRED McTEAR , the first Scot preparing to take a tobacco company to court blaming it for his lung cancer and claiming compensation , has died at his Ayrshire home . |
| 22 | Schrödinger imagined an experiment in which a cat was placed in a sealed box with a sufficient supply of air to last it for the duration of the experiment . |
| 23 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 24 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |