Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With ten minutes to go , Paul Whittington did well to tip the ball over the Milton bar on two occasions as Lane pressed for the equaliser . |
| 2 | Another new development for the division for 1993 , will be the introduction of electrostatic filters for industry used for the removal of fumes , dust , oil mist and micro-organisms from the atmosphere . |
| 3 | She had spent the day nonstop before and after work preparing for the weekend . |
| 4 | No partner is entitled , as of right , to a salary for work done for the partnership . |
| 5 | At the end of October the Department of Agriculture called for the elimination of all export subsidies on US agricultural produce within five years . |
| 6 | It is in the erm statement of faith to substitute for the phrase by his death on the cross the words he died on the cross for the sins of the world . |
| 7 | The king , who had returned from Flanders in February and was present in person , was asked to agree to confirm and observe the charters ; to agree that no taxes should be levied without the assent of parliament , and to appoint a council which would supervise the expenditure of money raised for the war and exercise jurisdiction over ministers . |
| 8 | Beto is very proud , and I think justifiably so , that in the early 1960s he asked the Texas legislature at every session for a considerable amount of money to build for the future , and received it . |
| 9 | One of the biggest potential costs is the building of under-road ducting for the speed sensors . |
| 10 | The sixth session of the Supreme Soviet opened on Sept. 15 amid uncertainty over the course of Ukraine 's economic reform and fears that its slow pace would jeopardize IMF credits [ for Ukraine 's entry to the IMF see p. 39120 ] , and also amid opposition calls for the replacement of the government . |
| 11 | Jackson may well have the spirit of punk to blame for the misunderstanding . |
| 12 | The time that the candidate has been registered as a supervised postgraduate student will normally count towards the period of study prescribed for the degree . |
| 13 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |
| 14 | It 's now up to the country of origin to vouch for the health of the animals . |
| 15 | There is no reason why Tanzania should not combine an examination , which is based on the things we teach , with a teacher and pupil assessment of work done for the school and community . |
| 16 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 17 | This afternoon the Government and the Department of Transport apologised for the delay . |
| 18 | Whether or not it is practical or desirable to introduce gender neutrality into the law of rape depends very much upon the type of reform contemplated for the offence as a whole . |
| 19 | Simmel effectively extends Marx 's concept of rupture to account for the inability of modern individuals to recognize themselves in the world of goods . |
| 20 | When pasting your template on the piece of veneer selected for the outline — usually a dark wood — try to arrange for the thinnest parts of the design to run along the grain . |
| 21 | the accounts give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Corporation at March 30 , 1991 and , in respect of the Corporation and their subsidiary undertakings regarded as a single entity , of the state of affairs at March 30 , 1991 , and the results and statement of cash flows for the year then ended , and have been properly prepared in accordance with the direction of the Secretary of State for Energy … , and |
| 22 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 23 | So was a lot , was a lot of lot of stuff made for the Army then ? |
| 24 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 25 | This can be obvious in an instance like that of the huge mass of evidence assembled for the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg ; revealing though it was , it is hardly the whole story about Germany after 1933 . |
| 26 | A contribution of £1,000 is to be made by Cleveland County Council to British Rail towards publicity costs for the Esk Valley Line . |
| 27 | The system will ensure that candidates ' achievement is compared accurately against the level of achievement required for the award and is rewarded consistently , whenever and wherever that achievement has been demonstrated . |
| 28 | Complaints about the grievous burden of purveyance reappeared the following year , and the Meaux Chronicler complained about the outrageous burden of taxation imposed for the campaign of 1335 . |
| 29 | In 1891 she moved to Ambleside and started the House of Education to prepare for the teaching and care of children . |
| 30 | A Contracting State may at the time of signature , ratification or accession , declare that it will not execute Letters of request issued for the purpose of obtaining pre-trial discovery of documents as known in Common Law countries . |