Example sentences of "[pron] for [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 2 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 3 | The banks ' role in the economy is thus crucial , and this was underlined when Chancellor Kohl turned to them for help in rebuilding East Germany . |
| 4 | In their place , he has advocated a more activist government role in the economy , by increasing public works spending , cutting middle-class taxes and retraining workers to prepare them for competition in the global marketplace . |
| 5 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 6 | Men were naturally more active and intelligent , while women had evolved characters that fitted them for life in a world dominated by aggressive males . |
| 7 | No bad way , Spruce reflected , to prepare them for life in the modem , dangerous world . |
| 8 | He discriminated against them in his tariff policies and would have been happy to exchange them for land in Pomerania , Saxony or Mecklenburg . |
| 9 | But he had experienced complications when using them for logistics in Vietnam . |
| 10 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 11 | NCube Inc , Foster City , California says that it expects to win agreement within three months for one of Japan 's Big Three mainframe manufacturers to start marketing its massively parallel machines , and suggests that Siemens AG may also adopt them for marketing in Europe . |
| 12 | He also campaigned against pollution but suffered the irony of being prosecuted himself for pollution in 1857 , which caused him to move his works to Miles Platting . |
| 13 | Enriqueta has the authority of many years as a top designer so she is perfectly qualified to equip you for success in this competitive field . |
| 14 | Lord , you are the source of peace ; we cry to You for peace in our world ; daily we see and hear of strife within nations , of tensions between states , of violence being done by men against men ; we are sad Lord , and know that You are sad too . |
| 15 | See you for lunch in Bath . |
| 16 | They may turn round to you for reassurance in the early stages . |
| 17 | ‘ We are simply appealing to you for help in the case of my son , John . |
| 18 | Therefore we turn to you for help in ways to make lightweight canoes in a cheap but very safe manner . |
| 19 | ‘ See you for breakfast in half an hour , ’ he greeted her . |
| 20 | Yet 32 million of you watched me talking directly to you for half-an-hour in prime time ’ . |
| 21 | As well as the agreement under which Sharp will license the ARM chip used in the Newton , Motorola will make a handheld device running the Newton operating system , and Cirrus will develop Newton-compatible chip sets for use both by licensees of the Newton operating system and by Apple itself for use in members of the planned Newton family . |
| 22 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 23 | The Sri Lanka Moslem Congress called for the Moslem community to arm itself for self-defence in view of the government 's inability to provide adequate protection . |
| 24 | Is n't this an indication that the government is trying to do something for training in this country ? |
| 25 | ‘ Packaged ’ , ie pre-written , spreadsheet models in use in various parts of Stoy Hayward include one for use in auditing hotel and related businesses , and another for evaluating the savings made by having a company car as opposed to running a private car ( see ACCOUNTANCY March , pp 112 and 113 ) . |
| 26 | This is an this is er another this is a good one for use in the field , it can be quite accurate it 's , it 's certainly a very easy one to use in the field cos all you need is a thing that looks a bit like a telescope about four inches long and what tha the principle it 's working on here is the fact that ref the refracted index of water changes as you dissolve salts in it . |
| 27 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 28 | As is well known to anthropologists , kinship terms , and other kinds of title or proper name , often come in two quite distinct sets , one for use in address ( as vocatives in second person usage ) and the other for use in reference ( i.e. referring to individuals in third person role ) . |
| 29 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 30 | ‘ I might be able to see him for lunch in half an hour . ’ |