Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 2 | I said , and I pushed the instrument back and paid for the rest . |
| 3 | The rain struck him across the face like a whiplash as he fought to keep the bike upright and driving for the protection of the leeward bank . |
| 4 | We 've struggled to establish financial security so as to provide for the needs of our families and communities . |
| 5 | How could minute quantities of an injected peptide be guided to and then enter the appropriate neuron so as to code for the new memory ? |
| 6 | Profits at Kode International Plc more than doubled for the year to December 31 as a result of acquisition of DCM Services ( CI No 1,988 ) and substantial increase in both turnover and profits at Kam Circuits . |
| 7 | Such a need could be met by processing the whole file sequentially and looking for the records required , but this would be very inefficient . |
| 8 | Bishop Stratford , preaching on the text ‘ My head is sick ’ , announced the decision to depose the king nevertheless and asked for the assent of the commons . |
| 9 | But he 's got to do it on Access because there 's no money in the bank to write a cheque out and pay for the suit . |
| 10 | The FMLN regard the participation of the local population as a crucial element in the ideological war against the government , at the same time providing vital practical support now and experience for the future during the reconstruction period after their victory . |
| 11 | As soon as they had turned the corner , however , he put his paper down and headed for the row of pay phones that lined the wall . |
| 12 | His voice was low , but Oz slid off his chair immediately and made for the door . |
| 13 | Suppose the central bank takes this line of argument seriously and opts for the following policy rule : where n is a constant . |
| 14 | In the seventeenth century , people stopped writing in Latin even when writing for the learned , and various attempts were made at making up universal languages . |
| 15 | She cringed back from him , pressing herself against the stove , wondering if she could edge past and make for the door . |
| 16 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 17 | The World Cup referees must have felt that the ball had ‘ been killed ’ on the ground and that it was therefore necessary to blow straight away for the penalty rather than wait for the advantage to occur . |
| 18 | To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us . |
| 19 | Rawls constructs his model so as to argue for the primacy of an equality of needs . |
| 20 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 21 | He tossed the jug aside and reached for the discarded bandage with his good arm . |
| 22 | IF you like to feel at one with nature when you are having a tipple , you could do a lot worse than to make for the upstairs bar in the Shaftesbury Inn on Belfast 's Antrim Road . |
| 23 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 24 | As Rex was currently at about five on the scale of ten he left Laura to steam gently and made for the cocktail cabinet . |
| 25 | In a tightly-argued four page document , AoI said it must be accepted that coal is not on its way out and called for the disbanded Energy Select Committee to be resurrected immediately . |
| 26 | She backed the Golf round and headed for the exit . |
| 27 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 28 | Dressmakers who might prefer to sell a valuable piece of material rather than settle for the modest profit of making it into a dress . |
| 29 | He smiled , sat down at the table again and reached for the Bushmills . |