Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Détournement and dérive ( drifting ) are thus reclaimed in terms of their contemporary relevance , or rather for the extent to which they influenced punk and the camp and erudite artistic radicalism which exploited it . |
| 2 | Last year the economy in Penang province grew by 11% , compared with 8.5% or so for the country as a whole . |
| 3 | A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘ |
| 4 | It was impossible to judge whether she was asking because she was interested or merely for the sake of politeness . |
| 5 | In politics he is that which of all things least resembles a democrat — an aristocratic republican who thinks ‘ nothing more agreeable to the order of nature or more for the interest of mankind than that the less should yield to the greater , not in numbers but in wisdom and virtue ’ . |
| 6 | The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |
| 8 | ( b ) the student has not been resident therein , during any part of that three-year period , wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education . |
| 9 | ( ii ) he/she has not been resident therein , during any part of that three-year period , wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education . |
| 10 | ( b ) the student has not been resident therein , during any part of that three-year period , wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education . |
| 11 | he/she has not been resident therein , during any part of that three-year period , wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education ; |
| 12 | To obtain interest relief on loans to subscribe shares in a Newco which is to purchase the business of , rather than shares in , Target , it appears that management no longer has the difficulty of persuading the Revenue that Newco " exists wholly or mainly for the purpose of carrying on a trade … " , as required by s13A(2) ( a ) . |
| 13 | The Act applies notwithstanding such a choice of law clause if either ( a ) such clause " appears to the court or arbitrator or arbiter to have been imposed wholly or mainly for the purpose of enabling the party imposing it to evade the operation of " the Act or ( b ) one of the parties when making the contract dealt as a consumer , was habitually resident in the UK and " the essential steps necessary for the making of the contract were taken there " . |
| 14 | Their use is also envisaged to evaluate a particular teaching approach , or even for the appraisal of individual teachers . |
| 15 | Our desire can be for physical satisfaction , for wealth , power or the need for recognition , for satisfying the intellect or our heart , or simply for the seeking of pleasure . |
| 16 | Since the proclamation of Czech independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 , the castle has sheltered the president of the Czech Republic , and you may have to make way for an enfilade of black limousines or indeed for the changing of the guard every hour in their colourful new uniforms . |
| 17 | There was an immediate countermove , however , by a group of deputies representing Estonia 's large Russian minority , who announced the establishment of a committee " for the defence of Soviet power " which would work for either a restructured Soviet federation or else for the creation of a new " state territorial formation " for Estonia 's Russians ( i.e. separating from Estonia those areas of the republic with a majority Russian population ) . |
| 18 | The income provides for a travelling scholarship in archaeology or otherwise for the promotion of antiquarian studies . |
| 19 | These are rehearsals , and performances given solely or primarily for the purpose of making a recording or to enable the performance to he broadcast or included in a cable programme , unless it was attended by persons other than those participating for such purposes . |
| 20 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 21 | Then there were ads , more than ever for the sake of the season . |
| 22 | 11.1.2 either party suffers distress or execution , commits an act of bankruptcy , goes or is put into liquidation ( otherwise than solely for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction ) , or seeks any form of protection against its creditors from any competent Court or tribunal , |
| 23 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 24 | The design of the area will depend upon whether you have a practical room available ( dissection , if you are including this , will require hand washing facilities ) , a reading area and somewhere for the provision of supplementary reading , and whether the library can be used . |
| 25 | What one found in the stricter forms of feudalism was an attempt to organize landed wealth more directly and coherently for the recruitment of knights . |
| 26 | The reason why I 'm asking the question is that if for example , Richard 's responsible for a form and perhaps for the master of it , that does n't mean to say that you 've actually got the folders in your office . |
| 27 | We must please be clear about those factors which actually matter , always bearing in mind that it is for the county council in the first instance and perhaps for the panel in the second instance , to take a decision about the suppression of past migration trends . |
| 28 | Just as important for the future of Denmark 's European policy — and perhaps for the future of European integration — was the size of the No vote . |
| 29 | A fortnight ago in Tbilisi , Dinamo turned in a stylish performance , and only for the heroics of goalkeeper Wesley Lamont the Blues would have lost by more than two goals to one . |
| 30 | However , I suppose I 'll now have to explain this soft/hard vacuum principal more technically , if only for the benefit of Mr.Peavey . |