Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , some pretty advanced hardware , but it does n't come cheap : Pentium readiness counts for about a grand of the price . |
| 2 | But apart from basic maintenance like turning mattresses regularly — every three months , experts recommend — what should a hotelier look for in a good quality hotel bed and what is its average life expectancy ? |
| 3 | Where the defendant has made a voluntary interim payment before proceedings , the plaintiff must still plead the whole of his claim including any special damage for expense paid for by the interim payment . |
| 4 | During the previous summer , Coleman had acted as technical adviser to the Cypriot Police Force Narcotics Squad ( CPFNS ) and helped train its officers in the use of communications , surveillance and other electronic gear paid for by the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) . |
| 5 | If PP is set outside the range allowed for by the selected format , it is taken as 9 . |
| 6 | The row followed hard on the heels of Tuesday 's criticism by the Members ' Interests Select Committee that Mr Gummer should have declared work paid for by a giant food company to restore a pond at his Suffolk home . |
| 7 | THE agriculture minister , John Gummer , should have declared work paid for by a giant food company to restore a pond on his own land , MPs ruled last night . |
| 8 | For most the only alternative is a flight home paid for by the German government and a DM3,000 ‘ golden handshake ’ they 'll be forced to convert into dong ( at the artificial official rate ) on arrival . |
| 9 | Two years later the tax was extended to include Nonconformist registrations — a move petitioned for by the Dissenting churches themselves , who welcomed the official sanction of their records . |
| 10 | If the share of UK GDP accounted for by a particular region is equal to its share of UK population and , if this is true for all regions , then GDP is spread proportional to population throughout the country . |
| 11 | However , if the share of UK GDP accounted for by a particular region is higher than its share of UK population , then that region is relatively more prosperous than the average ; conversely for a lower figure . |
| 12 | A considerable injection of resources will be required to provide the managerial and technological expertise called for in the White Paper . |
| 13 | Data for the USA , EEC and Japan all point to an increase in the share of manufacturing output accounted for by the largest firms ( figure 10.2 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 15 | Mean arterial pressure was the most important variable to adjust for between the two groups . |
| 16 | In some respects , this change ( which is part of the " deregulation " of television provided for in the 1990 Broadcasting Act ) will be welcome : no longer will television companies be obliged to submit their controversial programmes to an outside body for preview and pre-censorship . |
| 17 | Their assistance and local knowledge were essential for Ness harbour is no haven to make for on a dark night when seas run high . |
| 18 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 19 | The man to watch for in the Regal next week is Johnnie Rea , the current champion , but Alan Irwin — who was n't at Aghadowey last Saturday for the RRC meeting — will be the No 1 threat . |
| 20 | A second group of statements has the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on whether there does exist a thing called for by a contained referring expression . |
| 21 | This is a specialized form provided for by the Limited Partnership Act 1907 . |
| 22 | He is a spy , he is a traitor , perhaps he is fortunate not to have faced the extreme penalty provided for in the Criminal Code . ‘ |
| 23 | This Madam Deputy Speaker , is no way to regulate for for a major issue . |
| 24 | The even more rapid decline in the two-party vote in Britain is to some extent compensated for by the increased vote for the smaller parties since the 1970s , but in the United States the proportion of the electorate mobilized by the parties is almost certainly even smaller because of the growing number of single-issue pressure groups in recent years . |