Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among sheets from different periods of his career , she offers for sale the series of six ‘ Cold Mountain ’ etchings ( 1991 ) inspired , as were the recent paintings , by Chinese calligraphy and Tang Dynasty poetry . |
| 2 | At the weekend the Stall offers for sale the usual selection of Catholic newspapers and Catholic Truth Society publications , rosary beads and medals , prayer cards and candles . |
| 3 | This became for cognitio the standard form of execution where judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 4 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
| 5 | Allowing for inflation the total budget for L E A's this year is around seventeen point five billion pounds , nearly sixteen percent more than last year . |
| 6 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 8 | In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women . |
| 9 | In cases in which pain and suffering is not expected to continue for life the court has to form a view as to how long it is likely to continue . |
| 10 | In contrast to the monasteries of the Middle Ages and the Baroque period as well as the 1930's concept originally intended for execution the new abbey is not designed as an enclosed , homogenous complex . |
| 11 | Consequently double the emission rate and unacceptable concentrations of odour pollutant will persist for double the distance downwind , and , providing the population density remains constant , four times as many people will be subjected to the odour . |
| 12 | He announces his inability to arouse Sir Ralph , is about to return and unlock Whitton 's chamber himself , then changes his mind and goes for Colebrooke the lieutenant . |
| 13 | In Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon Brooke-Rose reappropriates for women the role of one whose relation to language is both active and passive , that of the producer as well as the means of production . |
| 14 | Crudely expressed , the librarian 's aim must be to acquire for stock the materials which are likely to be most frequently used . |
| 15 | In 1960 Liz Taylor was described as ‘ gravely ill ’ during the voting period ; Melina Mercouri , nominated for Zorba the Greek , said all the other Best Actress nominees ought to stand down . |
| 16 | I 'm glad he was n't at the dress-run last night when , in my most imperious Dame Edith voice , I commanded , ‘ Send for Hedward the Hugly ! ’ and Edward the Ugly fell off the stage laughing . |
| 17 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 18 | To supervise for instance the selection of " good men " to serve on local panels , they sent missi from the palace . |
| 19 | Or swap for Fender The Twin amp , cash adjustment |
| 20 | By the urbanity of his almost patrician deportment , Coleman tended greatly to raise the standard of the profession in public esteem , and he powerfully contributed to obtain for veterinarians the grade of commissioned officers in the army . |
| 21 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 22 | Suppose we now proceed as in 2.9.3 : we begin with the submatrix Yo and successively evaluate unc and we then solve for Mo the eigenproblem unc Then a new approximation to Y is unc At this point we may ask : what is the purpose of eigenproblem ? |
| 23 | His trunk swelled up to resemble that of a baobab tree , matching for bulk the whitewashed curvature of the charcoal oven that dominated the restaurant . |
| 24 | OUR nation has pursued for decades the policy that has substituted machines and technology for human lives . |
| 25 | It is the charity that really gets things done for birds the countryside — action for birds , on your behalf . |
| 26 | Imagine for example the stunning impact of ‘ pass the sugar ’ in proper chemistry , or being asked if you want ethanoic acid with your french fries . |
| 27 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 28 | Roger-Bernard III appealed against execution of the sentence by Eustache of Beaumarchais 's lieutenant in the sénéchaussée of Toulouse , acting for philip the Fair . |
| 29 | In pushing for profit the PROFITBOSS pushes for his colleagues . |
| 30 | The first full attempt at establishing a colony was Raleigh 's colony of Virginia , named for Elizabeth the virgin queen and located in what is now the Roanoke district of North Carolina . |