Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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1 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
2 | ‘ Apparently his wife has some hot-shot L.A. lawyer who intends to go for the jugular . |
3 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
4 | But we could n't resist quoting captain Martyn Moxon at length in a piece he has penned for the club . |
5 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
6 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
7 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
8 | And we in turn thank her , for all the work she has done for the Society . |
9 | It is appropriate that , through the medium of Medau News , we should thank Rita very warmly indeed for all the dedicated work she has done for the Society . |
10 | One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris . |
11 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
12 | A PENSIONER who has worked for the community for many years has had his efforts officially recognised . |
13 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
14 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
15 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing any guardian who has acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
16 | Even conceding that the drugs trade generates large flows of cash , the idea that the Mafia is a single , stable organisation which has survived for the past 50 years largely intact is plainly wrong . |
17 | CLAIRE , as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again , sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months . |
18 | He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years . |
19 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
20 | Next week she begins interviewing for the post of principal development officer . |
21 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
22 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
23 | A TYNESIDE man who has worked for the Ministry of Defence for nearly 30 years will be awarded a medal on Thursday . |
24 | Dr Mowlam said Jeffrey 's asthma and eczema were getting worse as a result of the stress and worry about the money he has to pay for the medication . |
25 | Furthermore , an analysis which attempts to account for the interrelationships between syntax , semantics and discourse involves quite a different relationship between sociolinguistic and syntactic theory than is implied by one which attempts to demonstrate that alternation takes place between semantically equivalent surface forms . |
26 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
27 | His texts were like epic editions of the famous WFMT Chicago radio show he has hosted for the past 35 years , in which he encourages but never intrudes . |
28 | Procedures can only be used effectively and efficiently in the context of a team structure which has accounted for the systematic management of top priorities and emergencies . |
29 | The indoor championship was the latest in a string of honours for the 28-year-old who has worked for the UK Courtaulds company for seven years . |
30 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering systems it now offers . |