Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | First of all , thanks to the Editor for asking for a short article from the unions ( soon to be united as Unison ) for the inaugural Highways Department News Sheet . |
| 32 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
| 33 | Transport cost so much that it was virtually impossible to make a profit by importing anything that could be produced locally ; although salt cod was brought across the Atlantic , in general nothing but luxury goods like gold , silver , furs , and spices would yield a reasonable return after paying for a costly ocean voyage . |
| 34 | Instead of taking account of and sharing variations in earnings and living standards between spouses , whatever the number of marriages , and then treating them as individuals , the British system as described above has preferred to recognise the work of caring for the young , the sick and the old by giving credits which maintain the care-taker 's entitlement to the basic state pension . |
| 35 | The act of controlling for a third variable can have many possible results . |
| 36 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 37 | But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described . |
| 38 | Not only does the Institute possess the facilities and staff to implement such tuition , it also realises the need for flexibility in catering for a whole range of requirements . |
| 39 | A very successful appeal was made in September by actress Susannah York on behalf of the S.O.S. Society to support their work in caring for the elderly and disabled . |
| 40 | Tory rebels believe they have found a legal way of spoking the wheels of the bill 's passage by calling for a judicial review of the constitutional implications of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , which today enters its 18th day in the Commons . |
| 41 | Already Teresa Gorman MP has supported TODAY 's campaign by calling for an automatic life sentence for rape . |
| 42 | It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar . |
| 43 | But there is a big difference between controlling for a prior variable and finding that the original relationship disappears and controlling for an intervening one with a similar result . |
| 44 | But two entirely new yards were opened towards the end of the decade , showing that BR envisages at least some need for shunting for the foreseeable future ! |
| 45 | The distinction between controlling for a prior variable and for an intervening variable is drawn more sharply in the next section . |
| 46 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 47 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 48 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 49 | I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor . |
| 50 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 51 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 52 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 53 | The rhetoric of Idealism , as proclaimed by , for example , Sadler , Urwick , and Haldane , gave intellectual credence to their views on the importance of educating for the new democratic age , as they perceived it , especially after 1918 . |
| 54 | As one observer noted , there is a need to develop democratic practice in the classroom as well as outside it , if people 's education is not to become simply ‘ a process of looking for a new set of right answers ’ . |
| 55 | He is also in the process of looking for a joint venture production partner who would be interested in taking a 49 per cent stake in MTM . |
| 56 | He is also in the process of looking for a joint venture production partner who would be interested in taking a 49 per cent stake in MTM . |
| 57 | The whole process of planning for a better future has become discredited . |
| 58 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 59 | The choice of language affects selection , integration and choice of curriculum content throughout the primary cycle , and is of dominant importance in planning for the first school years . |
| 60 | Thus , if implemented , notwithstanding the other requirements of SSAP 15 , companies may use either the full provision or partial provision basis in accounting for the deferred tax implications of post-retirement benefits accounted for in accordance with SSAP 24 and UITF 6 . |