Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 8 | The same goes for the inductive reasoning by means of which scientific knowledge is derived from the observation statements . |
| 9 | She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that has n't quite worked as her generation dreamed . |
| 10 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 13 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The nature of the structure allows for the early addition of new information without messy scratching out or squeezing in etc . |
| 19 | ( This ensures a wide field of application and allows for the gradual introduction of new languages such as Ada . ) |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This species is preserved in a soft shale , but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety . |
| 24 | The rights are set out in the Eighth Schedule to the 1971 Act and are divided into two parts : Part I allows for the full rebuilding of any building and Part II for its extension . |
| 25 | In the previous Section it has been shown that these harmonics can contribute to the mechanical output power , because harmonics of current lead to harmonics of motional voltage — The approach adopted here is to introduce a " torque correction factor " which allows for the harmonic contribution to the pull-out torque . |
| 26 | It is assumed that the spherulites grow from nuclei whose relative positions in the melt remain unaltered , and the analysis allows for the eventual impingement of the growing discs on one another . |
| 27 | The Guardian apologises for the inadvertent omission of the word ‘ North ’ and for any impression that the premises of Manchester High School for Girls were not in good repair and in an appropriate condition for the education of its pupils . |
| 28 | When the new Parliament meets for the first time on Monday , April 27 , the first task facing MPs will be to choose a Speaker . |
| 29 | The working party meets for the first time in July when it will define the terms of reference of the study . |
| 30 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |