Example sentences of "for [det] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ( 6 ) There were 1.58 children under the age of 16 for each economically inactive lone mother in 1981 .
2 The network access port — software which enables transactional desktop and terminal concentrator to communicate with the Unix server costs $150 for each concurrently active client .
3 Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon .
4 ( 2 ) If there are two or more causes of action and a payment in satisfaction is made for each separately , the notice must in respect of each cause of action identify it and give the figure applicable to it " stating " nil " if such be the case ( Ord 11 , r 1(5) ) .
5 For each substantially different class of business , show :
6 For each substantially different geographic market disclose turnover .
7 During periods of very cold weather , you may in some cases be able to claim an additional £5 for each very cold week .
8 The wheel advanced , or ‘ escaped ’ , by the space of one tooth for each to-and-fro oscillation of the foliot .
9 I thought that I had n't chosen to get married at all but that Syl had chosen to marry me , since it was time for him to marry and I offered no threat to the way and integrity of his life and character , and that my mother had chosen to see me wed because I was good for little else .
10 ‘ Artai cares for the will of Artai , and for little else . ’
11 Next to Byrd , the composers most fully represented are two who , although by no means exclusively keyboard composers , are remembered for little else : John Bull ( c. 1563–1628 ) , a pupil of Blitheman ( see p. 240–1 ) , and Giles Farnaby ( c. 1566–1640 ) .
12 Without adequate drainage , lowland pasture can be used for little else .
13 Similarly , areas of meadow can be used for little else without massive investment in drainage , and hay crops and rich pasture seem to have been too valuable to consider using this land in any other way .
14 Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland .
15 Experiments and modern calculations suggest that the Sutton Hoo type boat could average a speed of 3 knots for little more than six hours , so that a crossing of the North Sea from Holland to East Anglia could have been achieved in about 14 days , although if sails were available the time would be considerably less ( Green 1963 ) .
16 Then , when the truce had run for little more than three years , Richard II was deposed and murdered , his place as king of England being taken by Henry IV , the son of John of Gaunt .
17 I was able to recall perfectly quite long sequences of words even when I was exposed to each for little more than twenty milliseconds .
18 Yes we we envisaged that that bottle it it it has a certain sort of cache about it so we we we expected that that er a lot of sales for that eventually would go through the on trade and er obviously if it 's on trade then er the thing is automatically re-collectable and recyclable .
19 ‘ There will be plenty of time for that tomorrow . ’
20 The highest of these peaks , Wagagai ( 14,177ft/4321m ) , is in Ugandan territory and officially out of bounds , but our map showed the international boundary passing through the summit of the second highest peak ( just 20 metres lower than Wagagai ) , called Lower Elgon , so we decided to stay legal and aim for that instead .
21 And if there is blood you will have to pray for forgiveness for that also . ’
22 No need for that here : having a Tory MP for five years is a genuine enough disaster .
23 Why ca n't we pay for that here ?
24 DID you also puzzle why for that most important debate in the House of Commons last Thursday the women in the Shadow Cabinet chose to dress in a uniform of baby pink so they appeared on the front benches looking like a bunch of misplaced Barbie Dolls
25 Oliver 's experience of returning to Metastasio 's original text has given him a new respect for that most maligned of operatic dramatists .
26 Er thank you Tony for that most illuminating insight into the bottled water market .
27 Thank you , Mr Chairman , for that most generous introduction .
28 I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that most helpful and encouraging answer .
29 What 's the reason for that again ?
30 There was no room in their streamlined productions for that revealingly individual note — the self justification , the expression of highly personal piety — which had occasionally flashed through earlier charters .
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