Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a document which is effectively given for the protection of the Vendor . |
| 2 | The larger falcons are among the birds of prey most favoured for the sport of falconry . |
| 3 | Its objectives were to oversee a ceasefire and to bring to an end the civil war , thereby allowing for the formation of an interim government and the holding of free elections . |
| 4 | Some partnership deeds do , however , expressly provide for the payment of a salary in addition to a share of the firm 's profits . |
| 5 | The judge concluded that since rule 4.4(4) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991did not expressly provide for the making of an application ex parte for a residence order and since section 9(5) of the Children Act 1989 prohibited him from making either a prohibited steps order or a specific issue order to achieve that result he had no jurisdiction to make the orders sought . |
| 6 | Henry of Lancaster , Earl Thomas 's brother and heir who had successfully petitioned for the restoration of the earldom of Leicester in 1324 , now sought a reversal of the sentence on his brother and the restoration of his other lands and honours . |
| 7 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 8 | It is inconceivable that we could advise our clients in the manner in which Council has advised this institute , A ‘ brown-field ’ site out of London , in say Leeds or Sheffield or York , could attract development grants , rates deferrals and provide jobs and would be better placed for the majority of the membership . |
| 9 | In the late 1960s and the early 1970s , Greimas , Todorov , Genette , and Barthes all argued for the autonomy of narrative theory with respect to its object . |
| 10 | The fair is to be kept ‘ … upon the fourth day of July , being St Martin 's Day , and so to continue for the space of seven days … ’ , but the date changed to the 15th July when the Gregorian Calendar was adopted . |
| 11 | ‘ Too-much change for the sake of change . |
| 12 | These policies have , in many cases , been taken out by individuals on low incomes merely to provide for the cost of funeral expenses . |
| 13 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 14 | It was too small for a Viking longship , not sufficiently decorated for the ship of a king . |
| 15 | Krupp expected and received more consideration than Theodor Boeninger of Duisburg , whom the regional administration merely recommended for the title of Commercial Counsellor ( Kommerzienrat ) because he was wealthy , a capable industrialist , active in public and church life and had supported the government in elections and on both municipal and district councils . |
| 16 | The post-war expansion of forest cover in Northern countries is effectively " mopping up " increased carbon emissions , so compensating for the loss of tropical forests and countering the greenhouse effect . |
| 17 | The Italians had brought with them a battalion of tanks , a company of armoured cars and another of motorized machine guns , all designed for the kind of fast-moving warfare that Mussolini wanted to see in Spain and which was inimical to Franco 's preferred modus operandi . |
| 18 | If you only want for the effect of being a clown . |
| 19 | Neither services nor any other sector increased sufficiently to compensate for the loss of jobs in manufacturing . |
| 20 | First , any new source of revenue should be capable of producing a yield large enough to provide for the possibility of a substantial reduction in both grant and domestic rates . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) The firm must indemnify every partner in respect of payments made and personal liabilities incurred by him ( a ) In the ordinary and proper conduct of the business of the firm ; or , ( b ) In or about anything necessarily done for the preservation of the business or property of the firm . |
| 22 | More surprisingly , Buus and Annibale Padovano , organists at St. Mark 's , composed their ricercari originally for four solo instruments — Buus 's two books in 1547 and 1549 and Annibale 's in 1556 — and Buus 's sole Intabolatura d'Organo ( also 1549 ) contains only four pieces : ornamented transcriptions of four of the other ricercari obviously made for the use of the ‘ molto nobile e vertuoso giovane ’ to whom they are dedicated . |
| 23 | PSYCHOLOGICALLY the Aztecs were probably better prepared for the invasion of Cortes than Irish rugby is for the arrival of the All Blacks . |
| 24 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |
| 25 | The women were , on the whole , better equipped for the tedium of the wait . |
| 26 | Erm obviously to look for the start of a campaign team as soon as possible . |
| 27 | In practice , information gained by interception is only used for the purpose of assisting police or Security Service investigations , and is not tendered as evidence in court . |
| 28 | To the right were double doors , one three feet wide , the other about six feet in width was only opened for the movement of vehicles . |
| 29 | Its essential circuitry is much used for the purpose of frequency selection in electronic equipment , for example , in controlling the output frequency of an electronic oscillator . |
| 30 | Although the development officers ’ budget was almost entirely used for the payment of support workers it could also be used for the purchase of goods ( for example a single bed for a client coming out of hospital ) but not for the purchase of other services . |