Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 2 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed , it depended on its buying-power for sustenance , for by 1949 the life of a ‘ hit ’ record was about three months , with a market profile of a third under 21-years-old and a further 45 per cent between 21 and 35 ; leaving only one-fifth of purchasers over 35 ( many of whom bought for the younger generation in any case ) . |
| 4 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 5 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 6 | Those behind the Premier League shudder at the prospect of them heading for the big time . |
| 7 | The former was the obvious clash between Britain 's need for exports to pay her way in the post-war world and the requirement of the rearmament programme , both of which competed for the same scarce skills and resources of the metal-working industries to the detriment of the export trade . |
| 8 | This year the prize table was especially attractive and the wide variety of ‘ white elephants ’ presented quite a problem of which to choose for the higher scoring competitors . |
| 9 | The queue , with whom he was a great favourite , set to work to defrost his outer clothing while we from inside sent out a nip of something warming for the inner man . |
| 10 | Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason — in order to live — but the choice of job may be influenced more by necessity than choice . |
| 11 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
| 12 | TBA is with me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 13 | TBA is with me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 14 | Might the roots of this crisis lie , not among the victims of poverty who are now being blamed , but in the political priorities which devote our wealth to the destruction of life , and leave nothing over with which to care for the economic casualties of Thatcherism and Majorism ? |
| 15 | With something like two-thirds of the whole French Army to pass along it bound for the dreadful Calvary of Verdun , the title Maurice Barres coined for it was hardly a profanity : the Voie Sacrée . |
| 16 | For anybody looking for the ultimate adrenaline experience , I would have to recommend Bungee Jumping . |
| 17 | They said if we did n't consent for him to claim for the two of us , they 'd summons me and him for aiding and abetting . |
| 18 | However , there are two other aspects on which counsel for the interim government has relied . |
| 19 | This publication , and the Directory of Mines and Quarries , on which work for the next edition continued , provide prime sources of basic data for the United Kingdom minerals industry . |
| 20 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |
| 21 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 22 | He now wrote a number of books on it intended for the general reader , including History of Astronomy ( 1909 ) and The Wonder and the Glory of the Stars ( 1926 ) . |
| 23 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 24 | The atmosphere thus acts as a ‘ bottleneck ’ , and could have retained sufficient heat of formation for it to account for the present excess radiation . |