Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 .
2 It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed .
3 He scored 102 not out , his third ton of the tour , as India decided to use the fourth and final day of the match as preparation for the second Test , which gets under way in Johannesburg on Thursday .
4 Valerie Schwartz had already , with her father Georges , a doctor from Geneva , climbed the Breithorn and Mont Blanc du Tacul as preparation for the big day .
5 The window was barred on the outside but this did not seem unreasonable as there was only one thin wall of barbed wire as defence for the whole camp .
6 Although Humphrey emphasises that one can not rule out the possibility of auto workers being a conservative force in the future , he does demonstrate that , at this particular historical-political conjuncture , their militant action provided a catalyst for change for the working class .
7 The unrest , which killed 11 people , spread elswhere in the south , the traditional base for support for the Hashemite regime ; first to al Hassaniyeh and al Tufeila , and then up to Kerak , Madaba and Salt .
8 Brockway , Dutt , Gallacher , Jowett , Maxton and Pollitt for the Communists and the ILP appealed for support for the new committee .
9 They 're going overland by motorbike ; it 's all in aid of SNAP the charity that stands for Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents at the John Radcliffe Hospital .
10 To re-appoint Miss Dorothea Vaughan as auditor for the coming year .
11 The day began at 10 am for rehearsals for the next production but if this proved unsuccessful , it was taken off and the new production rushed on .
12 That 's what the work force would like as rewards for the desired behaviour , was consumer durables .
13 Thus if the data satisfy the restrictions implied by equations ( 3.14 ) and ( 3.16 ) it can be taken as support for the rational expectations model of consumption : the observationally equivalent non-rational expectations model is ruled out on theoretical grounds .
14 The News of the World was one paper obliged to apologise , and pay full legal costs , after printing untrue reports of a disagreement between Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman during rehearsals for The Phantom ofthe Opera .
15 He had taken the job on the strict understanding that he could be released during rehearsals for the expected arrival .
16 In the following year he published An Observer in the Near East , and in 1911–12 returned to journalism as correspondent for the Daily Mirror covering the Balkan war .
17 I enclose a cheque for £34 as payment for the outstanding balance on my last instalment of the Community Charge .
18 You can insure personal items worth £1,000 for the whole year AND get holiday cover , for just £12 to £15 on your home insurance .
19 Peter Ustinov says of us : ‘ They search for ages for the wrong word which , to give them credit , they eventually find . ’
20 However , there is a distinction between admiration for the productive capacity of capitalism , the sense of which has always lain behind working-class hopes for the future because of a realization of the enormous capacity of the forces of production , and a kind of shocked acceptance of the innovative capacity of capital as a social force in creating conditions for its continued reproduction .
21 Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election .
22 Baseline values were comparable between groups for the urinary excretions of urea ( p=0.3785 ) and sodium ( p=0.8454 ) , for glycated haemoglobin concentration ( p=0.7299 ) , and for weight ( p=0.8524 ) .
23 The second was the request for payment for the three lessons .
24 These synthetic chemicals were first generally introduced in the late 1940s and early 1950s , and are mainly used in two stages in arable operations — as protection for seed at sowing , and as protection for the growing crop .
25 Following the public consultation exercise in 1978 there was an overwhelming preference for the western alignment around Newcraighall Village , involving removal of Newcraighall Bing as fill for the new road embankments .
26 She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’
27 The military importance of the islands in safeguarding the Soviet fleet 's access to the Pacific , together with the potentially rich fishing rights , the past Soviet stance on the issue , and the precedent which it could set for those wishing to revise the Soviet Union 's post-1945 boundaries , were all cited as reasons for the Soviet government 's reluctance to surrender the territory .
28 It was also planned to rationalise operations in the UK , but Mr Heneaghan gave an assurance that Edinburgh , where his company employs five people , would remain as headquarters for the combined operation .
29 DAVID KILSBY David Kilsby joined the retail sales force in September as Merchandiser for the Southern area which covers from Cornwall to East Anglia .
30 But he later acted as agent for the chief minister , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , over private bills , and supported the great contract to put government finances on a sounder footing .
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