Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 2 | Valerie Schwartz had already , with her father Georges , a doctor from Geneva , climbed the Breithorn and Mont Blanc du Tacul as preparation for the big day . |
| 3 | The window was barred on the outside but this did not seem unreasonable as there was only one thin wall of barbed wire as defence for the whole camp . |
| 4 | Although Humphrey emphasises that one can not rule out the possibility of auto workers being a conservative force in the future , he does demonstrate that , at this particular historical-political conjuncture , their militant action provided a catalyst for change for the working class . |
| 5 | The unrest , which killed 11 people , spread elswhere in the south , the traditional base for support for the Hashemite regime ; first to al Hassaniyeh and al Tufeila , and then up to Kerak , Madaba and Salt . |
| 6 | Brockway , Dutt , Gallacher , Jowett , Maxton and Pollitt for the Communists and the ILP appealed for support for the new committee . |
| 7 | They 're going overland by motorbike ; it 's all in aid of SNAP the charity that stands for Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents at the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 8 | To re-appoint Miss Dorothea Vaughan as auditor for the coming year . |
| 9 | That 's what the work force would like as rewards for the desired behaviour , was consumer durables . |
| 10 | Thus if the data satisfy the restrictions implied by equations ( 3.14 ) and ( 3.16 ) it can be taken as support for the rational expectations model of consumption : the observationally equivalent non-rational expectations model is ruled out on theoretical grounds . |
| 11 | The News of the World was one paper obliged to apologise , and pay full legal costs , after printing untrue reports of a disagreement between Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman during rehearsals for The Phantom ofthe Opera . |
| 12 | He had taken the job on the strict understanding that he could be released during rehearsals for the expected arrival . |
| 13 | In the following year he published An Observer in the Near East , and in 1911–12 returned to journalism as correspondent for the Daily Mirror covering the Balkan war . |
| 14 | I enclose a cheque for £34 as payment for the outstanding balance on my last instalment of the Community Charge . |
| 15 | You can insure personal items worth £1,000 for the whole year AND get holiday cover , for just £12 to £15 on your home insurance . |
| 16 | Peter Ustinov says of us : ‘ They search for ages for the wrong word which , to give them credit , they eventually find . ’ |
| 17 | However , there is a distinction between admiration for the productive capacity of capitalism , the sense of which has always lain behind working-class hopes for the future because of a realization of the enormous capacity of the forces of production , and a kind of shocked acceptance of the innovative capacity of capital as a social force in creating conditions for its continued reproduction . |
| 18 | Baseline values were comparable between groups for the urinary excretions of urea ( p=0.3785 ) and sodium ( p=0.8454 ) , for glycated haemoglobin concentration ( p=0.7299 ) , and for weight ( p=0.8524 ) . |
| 19 | These synthetic chemicals were first generally introduced in the late 1940s and early 1950s , and are mainly used in two stages in arable operations — as protection for seed at sowing , and as protection for the growing crop . |
| 20 | Following the public consultation exercise in 1978 there was an overwhelming preference for the western alignment around Newcraighall Village , involving removal of Newcraighall Bing as fill for the new road embankments . |
| 21 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 22 | The military importance of the islands in safeguarding the Soviet fleet 's access to the Pacific , together with the potentially rich fishing rights , the past Soviet stance on the issue , and the precedent which it could set for those wishing to revise the Soviet Union 's post-1945 boundaries , were all cited as reasons for the Soviet government 's reluctance to surrender the territory . |
| 23 | It was also planned to rationalise operations in the UK , but Mr Heneaghan gave an assurance that Edinburgh , where his company employs five people , would remain as headquarters for the combined operation . |
| 24 | DAVID KILSBY David Kilsby joined the retail sales force in September as Merchandiser for the Southern area which covers from Cornwall to East Anglia . |
| 25 | But he later acted as agent for the chief minister , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , over private bills , and supported the great contract to put government finances on a sounder footing . |
| 26 | The purchaser must be the person suffering loss unless it can be shown that the purchaser was acting as agent for the injured customer . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that the rector of the English College in Rome acted as agent for the English bishops , Talbot became a self-appointed and unofficial agent working assiduously for the interests of Wiseman and Henry Edward Manning ( later cardinal , q.v . ) . |
| 28 | Closing date for entries for the Closed Champion-ships , sponsored by Paul Newbould Planning and Building Design Services , is Monday , March 15 . |
| 29 | In this context the term ‘ machine ’ is used as shorthand for the total hardware and software system or , in other terminology , the plant . |
| 30 | The government is not averse to pump priming book provision and has done this three times in the last six years , for the introduction of the GCSE examination , for acquisitions in university libraries and , most recently , for books for the National Curriculum . |