Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman will know that the House was advised in the summer of a new scheme to assist people during periods of very cold weather — well over 1 million payments are expected to be made for the recent cold spell . |
| 2 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 3 | He had always claimed to be acting for the best ; not selfishly , but for all men , as the great sage Confucius had said a ruler should act . |
| 4 | Another figure of the Duvalier regime , Claude Raymond , a former general , generally held to be behind the disruption of the November 1987 elections [ see pp. 35697-98 ] , was also reported to be campaigning for the presidency , despite a constitutional ban on " notorious Duvalierists " . |
| 5 | All Information supplied to you and your Representatives and statements of fact in any reports prepared by you or your Representatives in connection with the purchase and sale of the Company will be deemed to be disclosed for the purposes of any representations or warranties that may be given . |
| 6 | However , morally speaking , the nature of these states can not be seen to be catering for the betterment of the broad masses but the consolidation of a ruling groups power . |
| 7 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |
| 8 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
| 9 | Both Virgin and Thorn EMI are thought to be vying for the lucrative Jobete in Detroit , which controls the publishing rights to a catalogue of 15,000 Motown titles . |
| 10 | It remains to be seen just how much public money has had to be promised for the Heathrow to central London fast rail link to break the deadlock between airports operator BAA and British Rail . |
| 11 | This represents income ( including profit ) of £11 for the mill — remember that £10 has had to be paid for the raw wool . |
| 12 | Both plasmids were introduced into E.coli C , a strain that has been shown to be deleted for the chromosomal hsd genes [ 29 ] , and tested for R-M function . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 14 | So , when an Ikhwan ( widely understood to be fronting for the Amiri secretary ) proposed to make a grant to a Tibbu , ‘ all Zuwaya ’ , including at least some Awlad Amira , protested . |
| 15 | A further example of this caginess was the list of companies that refused to be interviewed for a Today Tonight programmed on gold mining in March 1990 : Riofinex , Glencar , Feltrim 's Conor Haughey and Navan Resources all refused to be interviewed for the programme , leaving the defence of the mining industry in the hands of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy , Ennex International and a speaker from Tara Mines , rather than Tara Prospecting . |
| 16 | The problem is , however , that state radio stations are not intended to be used for the purpose of broadcasting beyond state frontiers ; indeed , it was decided in 1978 to forbid these stations from using short wave transmitters with sufficient power to reach other states . |
| 17 | So in December 1177 in exchange for 15,000 livres angevines ( roughly £4000 ) and forty pack animals — clearly intended to be used for the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem — Henry acquired the whole county of La Marche . |
| 18 | Four British manufacturers are believed to be fighting for the contract to supply Virgin with machines . |
| 19 | Previous attempts to sell the Bowl have failed but now an Anglo American consortium is believed to be bidding for the lease . |
| 20 | It has recently been shown ( 6 ) that the TATA-box binding component of TFIID ( TBP ) , previously identified to be required for the transcription of U6 RNA by RNA polymerase III ( 5 , 9 , 10 , 11 ) , is also involved in the expression of classical pol III as well as pol I genes ( 6 , 28 , 29 , 30 ) . |
| 21 | In the three examples given at the beginning , having to do with the sound of the traffic , the windscreen wipers , and the warm left knee , a cause and each condition are naturally taken to be required for the effect , as distinct from alternatively required . |
| 22 | Letter of thanks from Mrs Cunning of the music department of Currie High School expressing her thanks for the cheque for £10 sent to be used for the purchase of music . |
| 23 | The leader of the other main coalition member party , Chart Thai , Air Chief Marshal Somboon Rahong , reportedly declined to be nominated for the premiership . |
| 24 | Former DN member Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra , the current C.-in-C. of the re-formed Armed Forces , had declined to be renominated for the leadership , claiming that his national responsibilities obliged him to abandon his previous FSLN posts . |
| 25 | Vaginal penetration by the penis which , for the victim , may be less offensive than certain other forms of attack , alone constitutes sexual intercourse which is required to be proved for the crime of rape . |