Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our trade expert , John Coates , hazards that the trade might only be willing to pay £12,500 in the hope of retailing it for £15,500 . |
| 2 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 3 | The right approach might possibly be along the lines of : ‘ How about the family closing ranks and getting together now that you need a little help ? ’ or ‘ Give us the pleasure of doing something for you for a change . ’ |
| 4 | The Higher Labour Court decided that having extramarital affairs with married women was not a violation of the contract of employment that would justify a dismissal , as this would have the effect of punishing someone for interfering in marital relations , which the German Code of Civil Procedure would not permit . |
| 5 | LIFESPAN always uses the term Quality Assurance ( QA ) to mean the act of assessing something for its fitness for a specified purpose . |
| 6 | What these critics apparently ca n't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others . |
| 7 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 8 | Because what 's the point in doing no matter how good you think you 're doing , what 's the point of doing it for yourself in the living room , you want er everybody to listen to it . |
| 9 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 10 | The girl who earned her nickname by wrestling with an alligator who made the mistake of choosing her for his dinner , has added yet another incredible feat to her repertoire ! |
| 11 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 12 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 13 | If he played at West Brom there would always be the risk of losing him for three or four matches . ’ |
| 14 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 15 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 16 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 17 | The interpretative work of field staff , particularly the procedures by which they graft meaning onto the behaviour of polluters for the purpose of categorizing them for future decisions about enforcement , is , then , a central theme . |
| 18 | It is , therefore , impossible to isolate such a unit for the purpose of testing it for ‘ closed ’ or ‘ open ’ minds or for ‘ reinterpretation ’ as opposed to ‘ readjustment of belief . |
| 19 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 20 | At the time of presenting themselves for employment , many nurses/mothers may not have experienced any difficulties with their children 's health or may not have foreseen the possible difficulties . |
| 21 | Now that the legal framework for the rest of the century appears to have been set attention can be given to the task of interpreting it for governors . |
| 22 | This is one of the earliest references we have in Milton to his own dedication to the task of preparing himself for leaving something to aftertimes that it would not willingly let die . |
| 23 | While BT has the right to terminate the deal between years three and six , it also has the option of extending it for a further three years . |
| 24 | As part of our mission requires this publication to keep its readers alert to the future of IBM and the wonders the company will doubtless work , we will — begging your understanding and forgiveness in what we feel is a justifiable revelation of inside information — part the cloak of secrecy that surrounds Hollywood 's dreams and IBM 's intentions in the interest of preparing you for tomorrow . |