Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 2 | In December a conference of donors pledged more than $1 billion in aid for 1991 , including relief supplies for the central province of Zambezia , where at least 250,000 people were forced off their land last year by rebel or government attacks . |
| 3 | Despite the risks , Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring his potential , of extending the boundaries of what it means to be a seagull . |
| 4 | The schools may be primary , secondary intermediate , grammar or special ; membership of boards of governors differs for the different types of school , but they include representatives of parents , teachers , education and library boards , and sometimes churches ( mainly the Protestant churches ) . |
| 5 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 6 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 7 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 8 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 9 | Stripes always look good when they are vertical and the same goes for the soft edges of these stripes . |
| 10 | The same goes for the inductive reasoning by means of which scientific knowledge is derived from the observation statements . |
| 11 | Coaxing the car through London , Dominique longs for the empty roads of Europe . |
| 12 | She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that has n't quite worked as her generation dreamed . |
| 13 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 14 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |
| 15 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 16 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 17 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 18 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 19 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 20 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 21 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 22 | The data from Study 2 for the 60 films was compared with the new ratings to see whether this holds for the full set of 60 films . |
| 23 | This true/false logic holds for the whole range of autonomizing fields , in the sense that aesthetic , scientific , normative , and legal statements can be understood as more or less valid . |
| 24 | In the case of a two-tier board structure , the Proposal allows for the supervisory directors to be appointed by the supervisory board itself rather than shareholders or employees ; in this case , employees would have a right of veto , as would shareholders . |
| 25 | The nature of the structure allows for the early addition of new information without messy scratching out or squeezing in etc . |
| 26 | ( This ensures a wide field of application and allows for the gradual introduction of new languages such as Ada . ) |
| 27 | It was concluded that low cost tools have limitations but can provide useful experience to system builders that allows for the critical selection of more advanced software . |
| 28 | 2.4 The proposed structure allows for the following staff to be graded on GS in the Exchequer Division : |
| 29 | This is the name given to integrated computer hardware and software which allows for the easy production in the office of complex and elaborate documents and reports . |
| 30 | One , Section 47 of the National Assistance Act 1948 , allows for the forcible removal from their own homes of elderly people who are not mentally ill . |