Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vote on Hinchliffe 's Bill two weeks ago produced a vote of 188 for the Bill and only one against . |
| 2 | The project seeks to explain why grey areas can exist in law , to probe the balance of certainty and uncertainty in law , and to analyse the implications of this for the nature and effectiveness of law . |
| 3 | After a long slog in the 1980s to reach the top flight of the Championship , last season 's relegation was nothing short of disastrous for the club and Stedman feels that it is an indictment of Farnham that promising young players in the area , whom the town club would hope to recruit , are instead going to Guildford , attracted by division one status . |
| 4 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
| 5 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 6 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 7 | I stayed like that for the minute or so we waited at the Lochgair station platform , and did n't stir again — yawning convincingly for any other passengers who might be watching — until we were crossing the viaduct at Succothmore . |
| 8 | If an order for provisional damages is made , the court will make an award of immediate damages excluding any for the risk that the plaintiff will develop the specified disease or suffer the specified deterioration . |
| 9 | End of year sales for 1992 for the bookshop and the mail order business were £753,000 ( £869,500 in 1991 ) . |
| 10 | Even the two hurdle races were light on entries with 21 for the maiden and 24 for the handicap . |
| 11 | Of Puritan stock , and imbued with his family 's sober piety , Philipps grew up a wholly devout Anglican , anxious above all for the survival and renewal of a Church beset , as he saw it , by spreading laxity and licentiousness . |
| 12 | It is of interest above all for the light that it sheds on Nizan 's allegiance to the Soviet cause in 1937 . |
| 13 | Send him only with enough for the journey and such toys he shows an exceptional fondness for you having mentioned he will not be parted from the train William carved . |
| 14 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 15 | Peregrine Phillips took out a patent in 1831 for the contact or catalytic process for the manufacture of sulphuric acid . |
| 16 | One wonders how close the cost of Edward 's internment was to the £15 3s. 4½d. paid to Hugh Brice in 1471 for the cerecloth and spices used to embalm his predecessor , Henry VI . |
| 17 | Previously Peter had raised £1,180 in 1988 for the group and £1,192 in 1990 . |
| 18 | But dogged determination by the owners saw the restoration of this fine engine , built in 1905 for the LSWER and which also served the Southern Railway and BR(S) , through to completion . |
| 19 | Inspection of ( 47 ) , repeated here for convenience as ( 65 ) ( 65 ) would lead us a priori to expect , first , that the language might provide a simple way to question the noun phrase and adjective taken as a unit , and second that , if there are simple interrogations for the noun phrase alone and for the adjective alone , these would take a form parallel to that for the subject and ( ordinary ) predicative adjective of a normal copular clause . |
| 20 | For lid sitting down on to container , the single excursion in the container relationship must be opposite to that for the lid and one of the possible five in the other relationship . |
| 21 | The programme 's drafting commission voted 7 to 2 for the proposition that the national question could be solved only by socialist revolution and that the party slogan should not be new frontiers , but the abolition of all frontiers . |
| 22 | I would n't be without this for the world and use it , or parts of it for different jobs all the time . |
| 23 | It took Robins 's total to 11 for the season since goal-shy United sold him for just £800,000 in the summer , and Robins said : ‘ I suppose I felt I had something to prove . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll leave it at that for the moment but I may have to ask you that question again . |