Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] for [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 2 | Nineteenth-century liberalism was to inherit hostility to religious charity without substituting for it the planned charity of the state . |
| 3 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 4 | The authors point to the lawyers ' success in reproducing for themselves the conditions of private practice and its implications for other departments and for the workings of local democracy . |
| 5 | Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ? |
| 6 | After the next change in dynasty , Thierry and Philip of Alsace strengthened their shaky claim to the comital position by attaining for themselves the prestige attached to being the outstanding crusaders of their generation . |
| 7 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 8 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |