Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing unusual about clogged up roads in London , but this was the school half-term holidays — usually a haven of relatively clear tarmac , a glorious window of opportunity to leave home for the office a quarter of an hour later . |
| 2 | A Plan of Action drawn up for the conference was estimated to cost between US$4,000 million and $6,000 million . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | AI believes that the nuns from Shungsep nunnery are prisoners of conscience imprisoned solely for the peaceful advocacy of their political views . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She delights particularly in this dominance of architecture over furnishing , ‘ a piece of space enclosed simply for the sake of beautiful outline ’ , so that the small dining-table appears as ‘ an odd and insignificant accident ’ . |
| 7 | The limits of pitch given above for the three drums remain true for mechanical drums , though composers have at times demanded extra large or small ones . |
| 8 | The first was for Exeter 's own services to be concentrated on Digby and Wonford House Hospitals , with Exminster to provide only for the other Devon districts . |
| 9 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While we remember those involved in medical missionary work overseas , let us also remember those who are currently in training to go overseas for the first time . |
| 14 | In order to build up for the trip to Orrell , Cusworth is omitted from the Leicester side to face Coventry at home this weekend . |
| 15 | In order to prepare further for the forthcoming conference , the Commonwealth Prime Ministers were told of the US-UK discussions at their meeting in May 1944 . |
| 16 | Quelch resigned from the editorship in 1889 in order to work full-time for the New Unionism , but returned to the editor 's chair in 1891 and remained editor until his death . |
| 17 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Just in time to wake up for the finish ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | THE first Norwegian whalers have put to sea to hunt commercially for the first time since 1987 in defiance of a global moratorium . |
| 24 | Muriel Spark 's book listed here , Voices at Play , is based on material written solely for the medium . |
| 25 | I decided to economise on decor to make up for the expense of the filter . |
| 26 | The predicted demand for ISDN — consultancy Prognos reckons it will be the basis for business networks by the year 2000 — and the likelihood that it will become cheaper over time bodes well for the Highlands . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ First , because other insurers have intermediaries who are forced by competition to look around for the best price . |