Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 2 | It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises . |
| 3 | A supervision order will cease to have effect if certain steps are taken or orders made under s25(1) ( a ) or ( b ) of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 which provide for the recognition and enforcement of foreign custody orders . |
| 4 | The Volkskammer passed a law on July 22 which provided for the re-establishment of the five Länder abolished by the East German government after the war : Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , and Thuringia . |
| 5 | The rest of the budget is allocated in two parts : that which pays for the hospital and community services — three-quarters of the total — and the remainder , which goes to the family practitioner services — the GP , the dentists , the opticians and the cost of drugs dispensed by GPs . |
| 6 | Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ? |
| 7 | Romantic poets such as Novalis and Arndt gave expression to this idea and made it famous , but it dates at least from Leibniz 's great political tract , Caesarinus Furstenerius ( De Supremum Principum Germaniae ) written in 1677 which called for the unification of Christendom and , thus , of Germany . |
| 8 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 9 | I 've got no specific figures or names in mind , but I think there will be a further growth , particularly in the number of people who supply existing credit cards , and that 's important because they may do better and different deals with the retailers over how much they charge for the processing . |
| 10 | Thus to bring to all our attention how much it matters for the encouragement of arts , commerce and trade which er , for manufacturers which is the full title of the Royal Society of Arts . |
| 11 | It made counter-proposals on March 31 which called for the constitution to be drafted and adopted by a 400-member body elected on the basis of " one-person-one-vote " and using a system of proportional representation . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 13 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 14 | In the Annual Report published in July , Hugh Laughland , Chairman of Stoddard Sekers International PLC , praised the efforts of all who worked for the company . |
| 15 | THIS WILL BE REFLECTED IN A CONSISTENTLY OUTSTANDING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND GUINNESS BREWING WORLDWIDE WILL BE RECOGNISED AS A TRULY EXCEPTIONAL COMPANY IN WHICH ALL WHO WORK FOR THE COMPANY CAN TAKE PRIDE . |
| 16 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 17 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 18 | In effect , professional and financial factors combined with political pressures to strengthen the camp of those who pressed for the reform of ORTF . |
| 19 | Those who opted for the unit trust — the South and East Asia Growth Trust — would have been able to realise their holdings for cash at about 98 per cent of Drayton Asia . |
| 20 | Whenever we quote anyone , Labour Members seem anxious to become an even smaller group : they want to disavow even those who write for The Guardian , if what they say does not suit Labour . |
| 21 | There were those who fought for the joy of fighting and those who slew for the sake of slaying . |
| 22 | Even when the incumbent on the throne showed little inclination for active policy-making , those who acted for the Tsar owed their power solely to proximity to the throne . |
| 23 | Professional safeguards apply to those who appear for the prosecution and the defence . |
| 24 | For example , an investigation into height and weight growth rates was conducted in January 1940 on a group of Manchester children evacuated to Glossop : generally , evacuee children who drank milk regularly grew faster than those who did not , but those who paid for the milk showed faster growth rates than the poorer children who received it free indicating that social class factors were at work . |
| 25 | Nobody , however , would deny that there is a growing gap between those who rely for the majority of their income on state benefits and the average working population . |
| 26 | It is easy to assume that with so limited a population and tourists numbering a fraction of those who head for the sun , protection of the countryside is straightforward . |
| 27 | If understood in a particular way , this Franciscan insight captures , I believe , the essence of those who stand for the promotion of animal welfare . |
| 28 | In the fourth of these lectures Freud , having already dealt with the importance of infant sexuality in relation to the body , turns to the emotional relationship between those who care for the baby and the child himself . |
| 29 | He called on the industry to balance the debate by pointing out that mining contributed to economic development , and that " morality is on the side of development as well as on the side of those who care for the environment " . |
| 30 | There were those who fought for the joy of fighting and those who slew for the sake of slaying . |