Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
| 2 | ‘ Apparently his wife has some hot-shot L.A. lawyer who intends to go for the jugular . |
| 3 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
| 4 | But we could n't resist quoting captain Martyn Moxon at length in a piece he has penned for the club . |
| 5 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 6 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 7 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 8 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
| 9 | And we in turn thank her , for all the work she has done for the Society . |
| 10 | It is appropriate that , through the medium of Medau News , we should thank Rita very warmly indeed for all the dedicated work she has done for the Society . |
| 11 | One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris . |
| 12 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 13 | A PENSIONER who has worked for the community for many years has had his efforts officially recognised . |
| 14 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
| 15 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
| 16 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
| 17 | Even conceding that the drugs trade generates large flows of cash , the idea that the Mafia is a single , stable organisation which has survived for the past 50 years largely intact is plainly wrong . |
| 18 | CLAIRE , as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again , sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months . |
| 19 | He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years . |
| 20 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 21 | Next week she begins interviewing for the post of principal development officer . |
| 22 | For an industrial waste producer , a college , hospital etc , the extent to which the duty applies will vary according to the arrangements it has made for the disposal of the waste ( see box ) . |
| 23 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
| 24 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 25 | A TYNESIDE man who has worked for the Ministry of Defence for nearly 30 years will be awarded a medal on Thursday . |
| 26 | The City Council bought the site from a scrap merchant , but it can no longer afford to pay for restoration work and Llanthony itself seems destined for the scrapheap . |
| 27 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 28 | Dr Mowlam said Jeffrey 's asthma and eczema were getting worse as a result of the stress and worry about the money he has to pay for the medication . |
| 29 | Furthermore , an analysis which attempts to account for the interrelationships between syntax , semantics and discourse involves quite a different relationship between sociolinguistic and syntactic theory than is implied by one which attempts to demonstrate that alternation takes place between semantically equivalent surface forms . |
| 30 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |