Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Plan of Action drawn up for the conference was estimated to cost between US$4,000 million and $6,000 million . |
| 2 | This being the case , we only indicate the means of production and means of consumption used up for the production of the means of destruction . |
| 3 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 4 | By the end of the year he was predicting , in research carried out for the Scottish National Party , that unemployment would have a worse impact in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK , reflecting the poorer social conditions prevalent there . |
| 5 | So Strachan in mid-tour signed up for the East Coast Bays club and the North Harbour seniors in a bid to get consistent first class play . |
| 6 | In order to build up for the trip to Orrell , Cusworth is omitted from the Leicester side to face Coventry at home this weekend . |
| 7 | A two week tour of Europe was organised for late-June/July in order to make up for the shows cancelled at the end of last year . |
| 8 | ‘ Just in time to wake up for the finish ! |
| 9 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 10 | The Government says that many scholarships will be on offer to make up for the charges , but surely this means that only rich people and the very brightest of the less well-off will be able to afford a degree . |
| 11 | This internationally acclaimed programme has mobilised the Vietnamese people to plant at least 160,000 hectares of trees per year to make up for the loss of some 2.2 million hectares of forest and farmland destroyed during the war , as well as the country 's current forest losses . |
| 12 | I decided to economise on decor to make up for the expense of the filter . |
| 13 | Penfield and Roberts ( 1959 ) give the following data for those of their patients who received electrical stimulation in Broca 's area and/or in inferior parietal and/or posterior temporal regions of the left hemisphere during surgery carried out for the relief of focal epilepsy . |
| 14 | ‘ First , because other insurers have intermediaries who are forced by competition to look around for the best price . |