Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [noun sg] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took no special notice of her , but she felt welcome , and when he was explaining some method of or reason for the cultivation of certain trees , she sensed he was talking to her as much as to the boys and girls around them . |
| 2 | A failure in an information systems project may be more due to a lack of recognition of or respect for the culture of the organisation than because of the technology itself . |
| 3 | It stated that ‘ the first objective for all sentences is denunciation of and retribution for the crime ’ but continued : ‘ Depending on the offence and the offender , the sentence may also aim to achieve public protection , reparation and reform of the offender ’ ( Home Office , 1990a : 2.9 ) . |
| 4 | However , his Lordship considered the second submission , that a contract had been created in respect of the provision of and payment for the valuation report , to be well-founded , because the declaration in question consisted of an offer by the society to provide a copy of the report to the pursuers in exchange for payment , which they accepted by signing and returning the form . |
| 5 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 6 | if the other party shall commit any act of bankruptcy , shall have a receiving order made against it , shall make or negotiate for any composition or arrangement with or assignment for the benefit of its creditors or , if the other party being a body corporate shall present a petition or have a petition presented by a creditor for its winding up or shall enter into any liquidation ( other than for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation ) , shall call any meeting of its creditors , shall have a receiver of all or any to its undertakings or assets appointed , shall be deemed to be unable to pay its debts , or shall cease to carry on business |
| 7 | With several hundred delegates from 16 states , including a group from Germany led by Konrad Adenauer , as well as observers from the United States and Canada , the Congress was an impressive display of the widespread interest in and enthusiasm for the idea of unity . |
| 8 | May they take realistic action as well as being open to and expectant for the provision of God . |
| 9 | They reckoned that they had already entered into their reign with Christ : they were already rich already filled with the powers of the Age to Come ( 1 Cor 4:8 ) Paul comes down immediately like a ton of bricks on this attitude which regards the Spirit as a medium of religious experience or an embodiment of supernatural power , rather than as the vocation to and equipment for the role of the Servant . |
| 10 | As inspirational pronouncement rather than an operational blueprint , not only did it give expression to and authority for the idea that a fairer , juster society should be created , as the inalienable rights of man required ; but more , it asserted that thanks to machinery powered by steam it could be . |