Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 2 | The federation shall act as guarantor for the liabilities of the Special Fund . |
| 3 | No. 2099 was taken out of service and removed to Charlton Works for preparation for the journey and left for Leeds on approval on 20 September . |
| 4 | It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed . |
| 5 | He scored 102 not out , his third ton of the tour , as India decided to use the fourth and final day of the match as preparation for the second Test , which gets under way in Johannesburg on Thursday . |
| 6 | Valerie Schwartz had already , with her father Georges , a doctor from Geneva , climbed the Breithorn and Mont Blanc du Tacul as preparation for the big day . |
| 7 | Fortunately we were able to use a FIS race , in Pitztal , Austria , as preparation for the World Cup season . |
| 8 | Whig lawyers , such as Treby and Somers , served as counsel for the defence in the bishops ' trial , a curious development considering the mutual antipathy between bishops and Whigs during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 9 | I shall continue as chairman for the present , and shall continue to edit the newsletter . |
| 10 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 11 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 12 | The window was barred on the outside but this did not seem unreasonable as there was only one thin wall of barbed wire as defence for the whole camp . |
| 13 | Although Humphrey emphasises that one can not rule out the possibility of auto workers being a conservative force in the future , he does demonstrate that , at this particular historical-political conjuncture , their militant action provided a catalyst for change for the working class . |
| 14 | Before resigning ourselves to permanent depression and a feeling that special needs have slipped from the political agenda , it may be useful to look again at some of the implications for change for the better … |
| 15 | The unrest , which killed 11 people , spread elswhere in the south , the traditional base for support for the Hashemite regime ; first to al Hassaniyeh and al Tufeila , and then up to Kerak , Madaba and Salt . |
| 16 | The results should be capable of being used formatively and to indicate any particular need for support for the child , or for more specific diagnostic assessment . |
| 17 | We agreed that Deborah would cover the administrative side of the discussion , the need to raise funds for rehabilitation , for residential care and for support for the carers ( whose life is as devastated by the loss of the person they previously knew as it is by the burden of twenty-four-hour dependency . ) |
| 18 | ‘ Remember , though , ’ says Dennis Gunning , ‘ that the intensive model is not a replacement for either normal sampled visits or for support for the kind of staff development activities which subject assessors get involved in at present . |
| 19 | Now that European Community funds are available to assist in that process , what success did our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State have in his dealings with Commissioner Millan over his request for support for the gas and electricity interconnectors from the mainland to Northern Ireland , which would reduce energy costs in the Province ? |
| 20 | President George Bush had appealed for support for the agreement in a national television broadcast on Oct. 2 in which he described the deficit as " a cancer gnawing away at our nation 's health " . |
| 21 | Brockway , Dutt , Gallacher , Jowett , Maxton and Pollitt for the Communists and the ILP appealed for support for the new committee . |
| 22 | They 're going overland by motorbike ; it 's all in aid of SNAP the charity that stands for Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents at the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 23 | To re-appoint Miss Dorothea Vaughan as auditor for the coming year . |
| 24 | Whitaker justified his position as favourite for the Toyota British Horsemaster by collecting the £3,300 cheque — but only after Marie Edgar had thrown away her chance . |
| 25 | The reformers , however , led by an eloquent aristocrat , Nicolas Sartorius , found common ground , such as enthusiasm for the Maastricht treaty , with some of the non-Communist members of the United Left , notably the leader of the PASOC , Pablo Castellano , and a witty feminist lawyer , Cristina Almeida . |
| 26 | Bright stockings , and long hair , and trousers in untrouserlike colours like pink and lemon yellow , velvet jackets , loud voices and laughter , warned the staider citizens of Shorehaven that actors had arrived in their midst , an exotic flock of migrant birds whose fine plumage mocked the grey and tan and black that they had adopted as camouflage for the winter months . |
| 27 | There is concern about funding for the Childrens Act and it 's too important to start scoring political points , whether there 's a general election or not t and I must admit I was off , I was off ill , off work during the week of the Tory Party Conference . |
| 28 | There is concern about funding for the Children Act and it 's too important to start scoring political points , whether there 's a General Election or not t and I must admit I was off , I was off ill , off work during the week of the Tory Party Conference . |
| 29 | In a letter to Mr Kinnock released last night , she said : ‘ You ask about support for the Khmer Rouge . |
| 30 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |