Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 2 | Individual householders , faced with the prospects of a water rate , showed as little enthusiasm for the benefits of water ( and with it sewage disposal ) in the home , so that when the Empire ended only half the city 's houses had running water . |
| 3 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 4 | Richard III would have had some sympathy for the frustrations of the Afghan guerrillas in their fight for Jalalabad . |
| 5 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
| 6 | There are now two television and video training companies , both of whom offer personal injury training , which may have some attractions for the partners in your firm , as training can be done outside normal business hours . |
| 7 | But David Townsend , director of Croydon SSD , has complained to Herbert Laming , SSI chief inspector , that inspectors should wait a few months for the reforms to bed down . |
| 8 | 1 The drills used are ill-designed or unsuitable in some respects for the learners for whom they are intended . |
| 9 | Section 4(1) provides in relation to rate support grant : ‘ Anything done by the Secretary of State before the passing of this Act for the purposes of the relevant provisions in relation to any of the initial years or intermediate years shall be deemed to have been done in compliance with those provisions . ’ |
| 10 | Despite this distaste for the excesses of Catholic piety his record on toleration and the emancipation of Catholics was good . |
| 11 | Evaluating this ratio for the extremes of fluctuation experienced gives an indication of the cover against the risk . |
| 12 | A ratio measuring this risk is Evaluating this ratio for the extremes of fluctuation experienced gives an indication of the cover against the risk . |
| 13 | ‘ Miss Araminta regards me as a servant , ma'am , ’ Theda said , faintly smiling , and reaching a hand out to stroke Hector 's woolly head where he lay on his blanket , as if to find some outlet for the feelings of gentleness running through her . |
| 14 | In the publishing world as a whole , periodicals concerned with the family become more and more specialized : quite apart from the dozens of magazines addressed to women generally , we find some catering for the interests of parents in particular , some especially for the ‘ mother to-be ’ , and others for parents of individual age-groups or of children with special characteristics or handicaps . |
| 15 | Let's hope someone buys some batteries for the bandsmen before the Five Nations match next March . |
| 16 | Scrounged a kipper off our tour manager Tel for breakfast , and then went about cleaning some chimneys for the nobs up West . |
| 17 | In other words , interactivity is really just another word for the ways in which a user can search and browse through an electronic database , the process being more or less constrained by the control software . |
| 18 | The new pool owner will almost certainly feel some concern for the waterlilies during the winter but , providing they are growing in a suitable depth of water , they will overwinter perfectly . |
| 19 | Second , absence of standardisation of the time of entry could be another explanation for the discrepancies between the results of various authors . |
| 20 | He seemed to make no use of this position for the purposes of observation , keeping his eyes trained instead on the pages of the paperback be had bought at Reading . |
| 21 | The immediate reason for his return is to give two charity concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra this weekend for the victims of last year 's Armenian earthquake . |
| 22 | To continue with the floral metaphor , it could be said that researchers must search the fully flowered attitudinal stances of this year for the seeds of next year 's crop . |
| 23 | Parliament had some regard for the rights of property ; the old Company was allowed to run in competition with the new one for a few years , and of course in India the old Company had advantages in organization , in diplomatic connections , and in possessing established forts and factories . |
| 24 | Shelter 's latest research shows that social work departments have had responsibility at some time for the lives of more than a third of all homeless people . |
| 25 | This can be done by direct measurements of the maximum dimension of a hundred grains through a calibrated eye piece graticule , or on a screen , followed by calculation of the standard deviation of these dimensions and application of a conversion equation which adjusts this value for the effects of random sectioning ( e.g. Harrell & eriksson , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | There was much sympathy for the aims of the action , but little for the way it was pursued . |
| 27 | If he signals too much sympathy for the Danes in their problems in ratifying the Maastricht Treaty on European union , he will be under immediate attack from EC partners and pro-Europeans in his party . |
| 28 | No such worris for the guests in the Stewards ' enclosure , where there 's an endless flow of champagne and Pimms . |
| 29 | Yet in that first-half Newcastle still carried too much firepower for the aristocrats of Portuguese football . |
| 30 | Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon . |