Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] for [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service . |
2 | He said the management at the site had n't given permission for welding on the oil tank . |
3 | On demurrer it was held by the majority of the Court of Queen 's Bench that while the authorities had until then confined liability for enticement to the relation between master and servant ( which that between Lumley and Wagner clearly was not ) yet the plaintiff 's claim succeeded . |
4 | The British had added grounds for resentment as the cinema of their own country had been largely eclipsed by that of Hollywood . |
5 | Two years later in Ilchester , Somerset , she was again imprisoned , and the same year she was fined £280 for non-attendance at the local Anglican church . |
6 | The inset picture shows a slotted bus-bar for use with the optical sensor . |
7 | EVERY Christmas , Denmans Electrical , a Midlands-based firm with several branches , has a charity fund raising day and the staff 's efforts are matched pound for pound by the company . |
8 | Thorn EMI , which imports Japanese made recorders for sale under the Ferguson name , is complaining to the British government about the new restrictions . |
9 | Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution . |
10 | The rail link between Djibouti and Addis Ababa via Dire Dawa was suspended from Oct. 4 as clashes continued between EPRDF forces and Issa groups which since the late 19th century had had responsibility for security along the line . |
11 | i.e. elaborately produced editions for display in the drawing room rather than reading . |
12 | Therefore , one can not claim that there was any potential for real dependence , although Leapor might easily have exchanged flattery for profit in the circumstances . |
13 | He also issued a little book called Directions for Prayer in the Diocese of Bath and Wells which contained simple prayers to be taught by parents to their children . |
14 | Elsewhere entomologists have detected genes for susceptibility to the commonly used insecticides , and also genes for controlling the refractoriness of mosquitoes to malaria parasites . |
15 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
16 | It is known that that material is stored in the republic and then brought north for use by the terrorists . |
17 | More than 4,000 doctors in Britain have asked Greenpeace for information on the effects of ozone depletion , including the increased risk of skin cancer , eye disorders and malfunctioning of the immune system . |
18 | We also recommend that there should be a central bank of specially compiled examples for training in the moderation process . |
19 | Moreover , as Alexander 's reign proceeded the government was given cause for alarm by the most radical section of the educated public : the revolutionary wing of the intelligentsia . |
20 | the appeal court dismissed the argument that the income should be deducted pound for pound from the agreed dependency . |
21 | The success of the team has worked wonders for morale in the aftermath of December 's tanker disaster , which devastated the local fishing industry , one of the region 's main employers . |
22 | Besides the Dresser drawings , the Met 's exhibition features other notable groups of designs , which Johnson has tellingly juxtaposed with similar examples by different ‘ schools ’ : several rug designs by 1920s British designer Eileen Gray are placed near a group of anonymous Bauhaus rug designs which strongly suggest Klee ; fabric patterns by such diverse talents as the American painter Stuart Davis , French couturier Paul Poiret and anonymous masters from the Wiener Werkstatte are remarkably similar , as are finely finished watercolours for furniture by the American L. and J.G. Stickley Company and Swedish designer Erik Gunnar Asplund . |
23 | Walter Gifford Nash , honorary surgeon at the County Hospital , had expressed support for co-operation with the local authority , but added a rider to the effect that if the voluntary hospital were enlarged and improved , and if it increased its work , ‘ County Council would have very little to do ’ . |
24 | In the aftermath of this triumph , in May 1963 , Sukarno was elected President For Life by the People 's Consultative Congress which had replaced parliament . |
25 | This old fish-drying plant has been revived to manufacture the drug , which is sent south for use in the trial . |
26 | When elected delegate for region to the T , T U C in the Labour Party conferences is not enough . |
27 | This chapter first describes how the British and Spanish political strategies discussed in the previous chapter have created pressures for change in the public enterprises , pressures encapsulated in the idea of ‘ commercialism ’ . |
28 | I 'd like to pick up on a point that er that Roy Donson made also right at the outset of of the discussion and that was that there 's no evidence that local authorities have have faced pressure for development in the countryside . |