Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 2 | After writing for The Observer and The Times he returned to The Guardian as cricket and , subsequently , wine correspondent in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | After testing for the role when he executive-produced We 're No Angels , he has taken it up full time , setting up his own company Tribeca Productions and building his own mini-studio in New York . |
| 4 | But the company 's Canadian parent , The Thomson Corporation , lost ground on its publishing side after providing for the sale or closure of titles in the UK and north America . |
| 5 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 6 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 7 | In brief , if schematic knowledge is in short supply on a particular occasion , then the more we need to invoke systemic knowledge as a means of compensating for the deficiency and if we are thereby able to convert symbol to index , then the act of meaning negotiation itself has the effect of extending or altering the schematic knowledge we started with . |
| 8 | They had the edge , a way of living for the moment that she envied . |
| 9 | And in tutorials there is opportunity to take well judged risks — by which I mean being unafraid of going for the character and seeing where it leads — even with well known speeches . |
| 10 | They had to reconcile the interests of poor peasants with the larger national goals of providing for the war and this meant that how the C C P had to take a more moderate erm policy . |
| 11 | In some cases , especially among people of higher status , the letter is regarded as a more polite way of asking for the interview and it helps differentiate the interviewer , when he or she calls , from marauding salesmen . |
| 12 | Each project requires specific conditions but the general thrust will be to secure guaranteed or priority access for target participants/bodies , at charges which are not disadvantageous compared to the normal level of charging for the facility or type of facility . |
| 13 | Roll a large ball of icing for the hat and flatten to about 2cm ( ¾inch ) . |
| 14 | The student is responsible for paying for the typing and binding of the thesis : this can cost £350 or more for typing services . |
| 15 | For accounting for the use and disposition of resources entrusted to public officials . |
| 16 | Ferranti continued with presentations yesterday to the group of more than 10 companies believed to have expressed an interest in bidding for the company or providing it with equity capital . |
| 17 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 18 | His early education was mainly private ; he went to King 's College , Cambridge , in 1888 to read history , but , apart from writing for the Gadfly and Granta , his academic career was undistinguished . |
| 19 | Churchill had a great time in leading for the Opposition and made what I thought was a splendid speech — but then he usually did . |
| 20 | The right-wing Conservative Party ( CP ) accused the National Party of political surrender , and CP leader Andries Treurnicht said that his party was now alone in parliament in fighting for the self-determination and liberty of whites . |
| 21 | The questions involved did not relate to the guilt or innocence of the defendants but whether they had been wrongfully deprived of material which should have been available to them in preparing for the trial and for use at the trial if relevant . |
| 22 | John Ashenden , seated alone in the front nearside seat , debated with himself about reaching for the microphone and saying a few words about Somerville College , the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Tower of the Winds , the large , late nineteenth-century redbrick residences , St Edward 's School … |
| 23 | As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it . |
| 24 | Mr Gummer said : ‘ The proposals complement the range of environmental incentives already available to farmers and reflect the Government 's continuing commitment to caring for the countryside and to integrating environmental objectives into agricultural policy . ’ |
| 25 | This goes without saying for the news and current affairs output , but it applies in the religious world also . |
| 26 | Speaking to venture capitalists , accountants or lawyers about business plans or any other aspect of a buy-out does not amount to working for the business and if done in working hours , may be a breach of service contract . |
| 27 | Although the latter was in the hands of people who rarely expressed anything but praise for the Government and TANU , neither of these institutions had editorial control , and there was always the possibility of its political line changing : after all , Ulimwengu had formerly been a firm TANU supporter . |
| 28 | Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter . |
| 29 | However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs : |
| 30 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |