Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads . |
| 2 | In order to maintain health , both personal and public , much energy has to be directed at maintaining an external environment which is as safe as possible , not only for the present but for future generations to inherit . |
| 3 | On Good Friday 1958 the first march set out for Aldermaston , the atomic research establishment in Berkshire , under the CND symbol , a black circle forked with a white ‘ drooping cross ’ , the semaphore symbols for N and D , which became the membership badge not only for the campaign but for a certain kind of non-conformity among young people . |
| 4 | Suppose that the strategy involves real innovation — not only for the group but for the whole industry . |
| 5 | The Locomotive Department and the District Superintendent were advised , in order to ensure the clear road required not only for the train but for the pilot engine running fifteen minutes in advance . |
| 6 | He noted that the Canberra meeting ‘ is the start of something which could grow into a very significant development not only for the region but for the global economy . ’ |
| 7 | As the title of the Department implies , the University recognizes the fact that university education is not merely for the undergraduate but for all who retain an interest in learning , whether at a highly academic or purely recreational level . |
| 8 | After he got home to Scotland he would write about Elsie , perhaps not just for the paper but for himself too . |
| 9 | He described Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , as an energetic minister who should be returned to parliament , not just for the town but for the North as a whole . |
| 10 | It was essential to harness science and technology not just for the economy but for the environment , she added , pledging that the Liberal Democrats would inject £400 million into the science base . |
| 11 | Forcing x r to an integer value reduces the objective function by approximately for the down-problem and for the up-problem . |
| 12 | Moreover , although such villages were often described as ‘ model ’ , they were evidently built more for the lord than for the labourer . |
| 13 | ‘ However , I do think that they are a breed more for the connoisseur than for the average dog owner . ’ |
| 14 | Concurrent reading reduced the rate of tapping more for the right than for the left finger . |
| 15 | You raise the possibility of a continuous loop presentation video : the idea is not a new one but has been put aside for the moment because of the high costs involved in making such an item . |
| 16 | The approaching host could not head directly for the town because of the suddenly-widening river-mouth , having to swing off somewhat to the left , westwards , to reach the Spittal or Town ford , the nearest crossing , whose natural shallows had been improved by an underwater causeway of stone slabs . |
| 17 | Its passage had been delayed by the calling of the December general election , at which Prime Minister Poul Schlüter had sought to strengthen his position by obtaining a mandate both for the budget and for a programme of tax reforms [ see pp. 37868 ; 37924-25 ] . |
| 18 | Zuckerman 's proposal of marriage to Maria in The Counterlife is an indication of its importance , and of the importance of escape both for the tradition and for the unsatisfiable Roth . |
| 19 | It ascertained that centres had formally sought Scottish Education Department and , where applicable , Local Authority approval , and also considered the resource implications both for the Council and for the presenting centres . |
| 20 | On a view of the facts as a whole , and making every allowance both for the finding as to the intention of the plaintiffs and for the fact that the learned judge saw and heard the witnesses , which we have not , I conclude that the facts found by him were not sufficient in law to constitute adverse possession . |
| 21 | The ‘ expense incurred in or in connection with ’ the provision of in-house benefits may be either the marginal cost caused by the provision of the benefit in question or a proportion of the total cost incurred in providing the service both for the public and for the employee ( ‘ the average cost ’ ) . |
| 22 | However , it is when these pass beyond some threshold of acceptability , both for the person and for others , that the individual is recognised as suffering in a state of psychotic disorder . |
| 23 | In fact , the relation is disadvantageous both for the slave and for the master . |
| 24 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 25 | A quick and clean military victory for the American-led alliance ( or , even less plausibly , a sudden withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait ) would be the best outcome both for the market and for the economy . |
| 26 | There may well be problems ahead both for the pupil and for the school if the child 's family are not in agreement with the professionals ' decisions about the educational placement proposed . |
| 27 | It is a bit hypocritical both for the questioner and for the Minister , who is a representative of the Government of unemployment , to criticise potential job losses under a Labour Government . |
| 28 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 29 | He pointed out that the best papers should indeed go to international journals because it is good both for the author and for international medical literature . |
| 30 | At that time , there was no clear faith in an after-life , and so children represented the future hope both for the nation and for individuals in it . |