Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parker , of course has to argue for the mainframe 's continued existence , but he does so persuasively with a blizzard of points seeking to prove that a ) the mainframe market is n't really in decline and b ) the mainframe will be able to evolve successfully into an indispensable network superserver . |
| 2 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 3 | The bourgeoisie became a source of state functionaries as the sale of offices increased to pay for the ever-growing cost of armies . |
| 4 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the third month running . |
| 5 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 6 | Why should the people of Liverpool have to pay for the self-inflicted deficits of their local council , and why should the people of Lothian suffer the same dismal experience ? |
| 7 | Neither the government nor the consortium has consulted the area 's Indian peoples about the concession ; at least seven Indian communities of Caribs , Arawak , Warau and Akawaio lie within the concession and the Amerindian Peoples ' Association of Guyana has appealed for the concession to be suspended . |
| 8 | King Hassan of Morocco had pressed for the summit — already twice postponed — to be deferred until late April when recent developments might be analyzed with " total objectivity " . |
| 9 | Mr Adams pointed out that the profits of Ford of Britain had risen for the third year running to a record £673m and he calculated a further increase to £710m was likely this year . |
| 10 | As the British had retreated to the beaches of Dunkirk , the government of France had run for the southern port in case the worst should happen . |
| 11 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 12 | Other strange weaponry can be seen in the males of some kinds of beetles , and the antlers of deer have evolved for the same reason . |
| 13 | Ninety nine per cent of our work was of this nature but the other one per cent of excitement seemed to compensate for the disappointments . |
| 14 | Much the same range of locations seems to prevail for the more romanized forms of housing . |
| 15 | However , it has not yet been possible to obtain agreement on the need for specific regulation for construction liability and so the principle of subsidiarity continues to apply for the time being . |
| 16 | At the outset , the plaintiff may be slow to contact a solicitor , negotiations for a settlement may drag on , the extent of the plaintiff 's injuries may not become clear until the end of a lengthy period of treatment , investigations may have to be carried out to ascertain the evidence , expert opinions may have to be obtained , communication and action by both sides may be poor and slow , the advice of counsel may be taken , pleadings are often extended , the length of time spent waiting for the trial to begin can be substantial , and errors may be made by the professionals involved . |
| 17 | Unless and until more knowledge is gathered concerning the aspirations , capabilities and limitations of schools and the people who work in them , and until sufficient flexibility is built into syllabus planning to allow for the necessary variations that are inherent in planning and providing learning for different people in different contexts , the gap between prescription and reality will remain an unconscionably wide one . |
| 18 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 19 | " There are some places in the Adriatic where marine life at the sea bottom has been completely wiped out " , says Civilis. * Ecologists gathered in Nice have called for the creation of an " international reserve of the western Mediterranean " , aimed in particular at protecting marine life from over-fishing , notably by the use of driftnets . |
| 20 | Beside these ladies others from Henley have played for the county , such as Betty Turner and today Alyson Dalton ( 8 ) and Joan Haley ( 10 ) . |
| 21 | The nature-versus-culture model of analysis was first developed within anthropology to help account for the universal subordination or secondary status of women in all societies at all times . |
| 22 | Crime in Strathclyde has fallen for the ninth consecutive month . |
| 23 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 24 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 25 | She had also acquired a solid grounding in revolutionary politics and in France had worked for the Boulangist cause . |
| 26 | and finally next Tuesday the country 's top dogs … are in Oxford to start racing for the Pall Mall trophy … its the richest prize of the year … at the Cowley Stadium … the final 's on March the twentieth |
| 27 | The boom in buying second homes in Europe has ended for the time being — the buyers wo n't be back until the UK economy recovers |
| 28 | In the New Testament Jesus uses two images to convey God 's extravagant concern for the world : one is the shepherd who risks the rest of the flock in order to go searching for the lost sheep ; the other is the woman who turns a house upside down looking for lost coins . |
| 29 | New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire has closed for the summer holidays 3 weeks early and the last of 22 children withdrawn , following the arrest of the vice-chairman of Governors , Peter Righton , a leading authority on the treatment of disturbed children . |
| 30 | UNIONISTS in Belfast have called for the SAS to take out known republican terrorists . |