Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whig lawyers , such as Treby and Somers , served as counsel for the defence in the bishops ' trial , a curious development considering the mutual antipathy between bishops and Whigs during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 2 | President George Bush had appealed for support for the agreement in a national television broadcast on Oct. 2 in which he described the deficit as " a cancer gnawing away at our nation 's health " . |
| 3 | The wide margin between support for the Conservatives in the South of England and Labour in the North and Scotland is shown in Table 5.7 and in Map 5.1 . |
| 4 | ‘ In both cases it is an essential first step for the wife to be able to show that the husband was acting as agent for the creditor in procuring her signature . |
| 5 | ‘ Mrs. Perry contends that Mr. Colin Perry , in his dealings with her in relation to the execution of the charge , was acting as agent for the bank in obtaining Mrs. Perry 's consent to the giving of the security . |
| 6 | At independence , the two were relatively young — Mboya in his early thirties , and Odinga in his forties — and could have expected to be considered as candidates for the presidency in the years to come . |
| 7 | There were no significant differences between the two groups in the time taken to establish a diagnosis , the mean duration of preoperative treatment , or the length of stay in hospital ( after allowance for the decline in average length of stay of all hospital patients between the two periods ) . |
| 8 | In addition , the ethos of the CAB is being spread by all those who receive CAB training and then act as ambassadors for the CAB in other roles . |
| 9 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 10 | The fourth major indication of the increasing scale and complexity of the CNAA 's validation role was its acquisition of responsibility for the Diploma in Management Studies . |
| 11 | Mr Hanley also partly blamed a lack of support among the employers of part-timers for the drop in their numbers . |
| 12 | There was a list of bands that might be interested in doing an album ( a musical tone-scale running all the way from Yes to Genesis ) , and a sheaf of sketches for the sets in a stage presentation . |
| 13 | Write down further examples of where you yourself are aware of episodes of caretaking for the addict in your life in order to diminish the damaging consequences of his or her addictive disease and give " just one more chance " for him or her to get straight . |
| 14 | but also of course for the way in which he always put it . |
| 15 | This is necessarily a source of weakness for the banks in the competitive struggle against the building societies . |
| 16 | Even during the height of enthusiasm for the monarchy in the first half of the 1680s , Anglican polemicists offered hints that their loyalty to the Church came before their loyalty to the Crown . |
| 17 | A cash flow forecast , showing the sources and uses of money for the period in question is as important as the balance sheet in this situation . |
| 18 | A cash flow forecast , showing the sources and uses of money for the period in question is as important as the balance sheet in this situation . |
| 19 | Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out . |
| 20 | Exhibiting societies , once established , bred rivals ; the most remarkable rivalry in the nineteenth century was in Paris , where the choice of pictures for the Salon in 1866 was so generally considered to be unfair that the rejected pictures were shown in a Salon of their own . |
| 21 | The first thing to notice about Figs. 5.2(a) and 5.2(b) is that the value of beta for the market in each case is shown as 1 . |
| 22 | This was achieved whilst maintaining an appropriate level of investment for the future in design , manufacture and plant . ’ |
| 23 | Each aircraft will be acting as an extra set of eyes for the other in an attempt to see before being seen . |
| 24 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 25 | He was very interested in bird watching and kept a large tin of peanuts for the birds in our front porch . |
| 26 | The Association proved once again to be a formidable field force when helping the appeal , and provided an excellent point of reference for the media in respect of both the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the work of the Association . |
| 27 | The party 's most important electoral commitment was the creation of 800,000 jobs over four years , and although it was to fall lamentably short of the aim , the reduction of unemployment remained an important point of reference for the party in power and for its political allies ( see , e.g. , PSOE 1983 : 43–4 ) . |
| 28 | Anyhow , I married her out of lust and a sort of snobbism for the theatre in general and pretty actresses in particular . |
| 29 | Morocco was also said by various sources to have prevented the full deployment of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ( Minurso ) personnel and the unloading of equipment for the mission in the port of Agadir . |
| 30 | To summarise our position : we endorsed the statements in the National Criteria for GCSE about the choice of texts for the syllabus in English Literature . |