Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Conveyance ’ means any conveyance construed or adapted for the carriage of a person or persons whether by land , water or air , except that it does not include a conveyance constructed or adapted for use only under the control of a person not carried in or on it , and ‘ drive ’ shall be construed accordingly .
2 using a vehicle constructed or adapted for the delivery or collection of goods or mail to consumers or addressees , as the case may be , whilst engaged in making local rounds of deliveries or collections ;
3 A horse is not a " conveyance constructed or adapted for the carriage of a person … "
4 Francis Mulhern has argued that Scrutiny developed and propagated for the profession of English studies an ideological framework suited to the maintenance of a talent-governed career structure which eventually came to dominate the profession as a whole .
5 It is obvious that the aggregate demand for consumption goods must Brow at the same rate as the production of such commodities if equilibrium is to be maintained ; but there is an inherent drive within the capitalist system to reduce the amount of variable capital advanced or employed for the purchase of labour-power as a proportion of the total capital advanced .
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