Example sentences of "[verb] for the [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lightbown argues on the basis of all the published evidence that Piero 's National Gallery ‘ Baptism of Christ ’ was painted for the Pieve in Sansepolcro ( which was the only church in the town where baptisms were performed before 1520 ) and not the Priory of San Giovanni Battista d'Afra as most , including Bertelli , believe . |
| 2 | Around 30 members of the clergy and laity gathered for the meeting in Cheltenham . |
| 3 | It may be easier to plan for the future in stages and to adapt to one change at a time . |
| 4 | You will have to apply para 41 if you are to equity account for the associate in accordance with standard practice . |
| 5 | The raising of the compulsory school-leaving age , first to 15 and then to 16 , and the expansion of further education account for the growth in education . |
| 6 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 7 | Both relate to the social environment of the person with an established schizophrenic illness : while he is being treated for the disorder in hospital , and after he has been discharged into the community . |
| 8 | ‘ According to gossip , your uncle was substituted for the Scapegoat in Saturday 's festival . ’ |
| 9 | Two simple recipes are included for the teacher in Appendix B on page 94 . |
| 10 | Roy Hattersley , deputy party leader , was blamed for the change in policy which has been approved at three previous conferences . |
| 11 | I am now shown correctly in Hansard as having voted for the Government in Division 15 . |
| 12 | The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans . |
| 13 | This means that if , for example , the cooking cycle is programmed for two-and-a-half minutes at a required temperature the machine will adjust to compensate for the fall in temperature which occurs when a frozen or chilled food will have been cooked for two-and-a-half minutes at the correct temperature . |
| 14 | Although the number of suicides by other methods rose , this was not sufficient to compensate for the fall in deaths due to coal gas poisoning — indeed , a reduction in suicide of over 30% was observed . |
| 15 | There is moderate reduction in lung cancer risk associated with lower tar cigarettes but research in the UK suggests that the assumed health advantages of switching to lower tar may be largely offset by the tendency of smokers to compensate for the reduction in nicotine ( cigarettes lower in tar also tend to be lower in nicotine ) by smoking more or inhaling more deeply [ 4 ] . |
| 16 | While this is a welcome help it does little to compensate for the difference in service provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 17 | I apologise for the delay in response — we had to track down which university you were at ! |
| 18 | While 83 international beauties battle for the title in Bophuthatswana 's ‘ Lost City , ’ Alan meets visiting celebrities like Jerry Hall , Richard Branson and Brigitte Nielsen . |
| 19 | Workers are not free since they are forced to work for the capitalist in order to survive . |
| 20 | The English representative on the board asked her whether she 'd like to work for the company in Switzerland , as resident copywriter ( for Jane was bright , though she despised the ‘ profession ’ ) . |
| 21 | The government believes that the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision . |
| 22 | Combined with the rather weak correlation between inflammation and bleeding ( r : 0.60 ) , this suggests that while most of the neutrophils are seeking a mucosal signal , some may also be destined for the lumen in NSAID induced enteropathy . |
| 23 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 24 | Sky City One had been built by constructs such as these , their bodies and minds tailored for the job in hand . |
| 25 | As the constitutional deadline for the government 's term in office approached , Labour MPs increasingly sought to avert electoral disaster by calling on Palmer to step down in favour of Moore , whom he had defeated for the leadership in August 1989 . |
| 26 | Above right : the Sixties re-created for the film in Los Angeles , 1990 |
| 27 | Thereafter he received an annual salary of twenty pounds a year each year down to 1262 and can be traced acting for the king in litigation until 1267 . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State will remember my exchanges with the Prime Minister in respect of volunteering , so he will understand my regret at the reduction in opportunities for those who want to volunteer for the TAVR in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | Supplies collected for the charity in Worcester remained in a warehouse in the city , and West Mercia Fraud Squad were asked to investigate the withdrawal of funds from the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 30 | Jeff started training for the marathon in October last year , and was running 50 miles a week when he suffered a hip injury . |