Example sentences of "[adv] for [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use . |
| 2 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 3 | The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work . |
| 4 | I feel a certain sympathy for their wallflower purity , none for their legislators ' regard for the morals of others , and most for Mapplethorpe 's prophylaxis . |
| 5 | An ardent but always non-violent feminist , she campaigned vigorously for women 's rights , fought hard to improve rudimentary state education and medical services , and was one of the first women to stand for election to a borough council after the passing of the Qualification of Women Act in 1907 . |
| 6 | This angry and often lonely young man believes the one-bouncer rule was introduced expressly for Hick 's benefit . |
| 7 | Hunt on for Mersey 's top businesswoman |
| 8 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 9 | The search is on for Darlington 's young sports winner for 1992 . |
| 10 | We 'll probably have something on for Mother 's day . |
| 11 | QPR 's right back Bardsley came on for Arsenal 's Lee Dixon at the start of the second half , but lasted only 19 minutes before limping off . |
| 12 | And it was early enough for Britain 's arms makers to refer to it in their autumn armaments promotions . |
| 13 | This system is good enough for Britain 's private schools ; why is it not good enough for Britain 's state schools too ? |
| 14 | This system is good enough for Britain 's private schools ; why is it not good enough for Britain 's state schools too ? |
| 15 | The API is n't full enough for DEC 's tastes so it 's working with Microsoft to expand it . |
| 16 | There is no praise high enough for December 's Country Living , surely the best Christmas magazine produced last year . |
| 17 | The harvest just gathered is hardly enough for Burma 's own food . |
| 18 | Teaching atoms and molecules to nine year olds would add spice and purpose to junior science ( and do better for chemistry 's image than advertising aimed at their parents . |
| 19 | So much for Armstrong 's attempt at rationalization five years earlier . |
| 20 | So much for Leitrim 's Castle . |
| 21 | By the late 1960s , Peat Marwick Mitchell 's headhunting division was earning $2m. annually with 20 consultants , an impressive performance considering the much lower salaries paid at that time ; but it clashed with their accountancy clients , and the top management did not care much for Korn 's apparently pushy style . |
| 22 | So much for Britain 's drought ! |
| 23 | So much for Jenny 's walk . |
| 24 | So much for Rainbow 's promise to have Riva home in an hour . |
| 25 | So much for Lacuna 's precious Ace . |
| 26 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
| 27 | So much for Beveridge 's ‘ new risks ’ . |
| 28 | She also did n't care too much for Lizzie 's cooking . |
| 29 | The board holds the funds in escrow for five years , during which it releases amounts only for attorney 's fees , and in some cases , for expenses incurred in earning the literary income . |
| 30 | The civil servants watched with barely concealed glee as the ruling party became embarrassed when the North Koreans demanded compensation not only for Japan 's colonial rule but also for all the years since . |