Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you interested in recruiting the services of a man merely for the purpose of impregnation ? ’ |
| 2 | I suspect that ideological differences with the Russians and the Chinese denouncing each other as counter- revolutionaries were sort of a cover really for the fact there were , there were real conflicts of interest between the Chinese and the Russians which we will , will , we will look at . |
| 3 | ‘ One does not go out for a meal just for the food , ’ he added , hardly improving the situation . |
| 4 | He regards it as a way forward for the museum and a means of providing a window for many more people on Britain 's scientific and technological expertise . |
| 5 | A recognised formal staff structure acts as a basis both for the processing of instructions and for job control and expansion . |
| 6 | ‘ Someone who 'll argue the hind leg off a donkey just for the sake of it . |
| 7 | Because you would be saying well if we have classes this provides us with a way forward for the future in a way that if we have absolute egalitarianism that , how would we make progress through to socialism ? |
| 8 | 7. aria lived just up Eastern Avenue — let's face it , half the world lives up Eastern Avenue — in Redbridge , in one of those huge roadside vicarage-like houses which has had to be turned into a rest home for the elderly because no one else could afford to pay the rates . |
| 9 | Shareholder consents can be particularly difficult and time-consuming to obtain if some of the shares are held in a trust either for the families of other shareholders or for employees or as part of the company 's pension fund . |
| 10 | The approach of the two men to each other is conducted like a ritual , a crucial moment of which comes when they go up in a plane together for the first time . |
| 11 | A wife whose husband had had multiple sclerosis and went to a holiday home for the disabled for two weeks to give her a rest said : |
| 12 | Sales volumes in May were up on a year ago for the fifth month in a row but they remained well below normal for the time of year , he said . |