Example sentences of "[adv] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 2 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |
| 3 | There was a fire-hole in the centre of the room , presumably for warmth in the winter . |
| 4 | Since the 1971 Act , most immigrants have needed work permits and these have been granted mostly for work in those industries like the health service and hotels , where there is a shortage of domestic workers . |
| 5 | Local dairies , bacon factories and packing stations produce butter , cheese , dried milk , bacon , eggs and chickens mostly for shipment across the Irish Sea to the large mainland markets . |
| 6 | The 1990 figures , provided more recently by the Ministry of Justice , show a dramatic increase to 447 death sentences , mostly for murder under aggravating circumstances . |
| 7 | Goats were kept commercially for milk for cheese . |
| 8 | People murmured that this would never have happened in Cromwell 's day , albeit secretly for fear of the authorities . |
| 9 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 10 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 11 | Dosh is an Australian blend of dollar and cash , and spondulos is a type of sea shell that was used widely for trade in Africa . |
| 12 | A Summary Paper of the proposals was circulated widely for comment during February ; this will be amended and reissued in March . |
| 13 | It is sent to our secretary , who has the considerable task of arranging the pages into a form suitable for photo-copying , inserting photographs , and if necessary reducing then to the correct size , etc. for insertion into the gaps left in the text . |
| 14 | The main benefit areas in enterprises which have embarked upon computerised payroll and personnel information are : ( i ) Better personnel management/career planning/training Reduced attrition in key skill areas Matching of people requirements and availability Reduced recruiting costs Reduced training costs ( ii ) Ability to set headcount targets and control to monthly control numbers Reduced cost of people Productivity gains ( iii ) Ability to create computerised model of company payroll including job levels , skill levels , merit targets , headcounts , promotions , overtime , bonuses , shift allowance etc. etc. for use in wage budgeting/bargaining . |
| 15 | Said it was all right for tennis on Thursday . ’ |
| 16 | A smiling Hannon simply said : ‘ The ground has come right for Assessor in the Doncaster Cup . ’ |
| 17 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 18 | The second was a law enforcement action brought by the Crown ; he referred in particular to such an action brought under a statute which provided expressly for enforcement of a provision of the statute by civil proceedings by the Crown , which was the position in the Hoffmann-La Roche case [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 where the Crown was proceeding pursuant to a provision of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices ( Inquiry and Control ) Act 1948 . |
| 19 | Academic subscribers included Edmund Halley , Astronomer Royal , the Professor of Modern History at Oxford , the Provost of Oriel , Professors of Botany at both Dublin and Edinburgh Universities and the Vice-Master of Trinity , expressly for use in the Library of that Cambridge College . |
| 20 | It was decided at the Brdo kod Kranja meeting to hold by the end of May a separate referendum in each republic except Slovenia , which had already voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 21 | As the cyclist who organised the commuter challenge , I agree with Bernard Povey ( letters , 5 July ) that the route from Currie to the city centre is downhill for part of the way . |
| 22 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 23 | Some Anglophile girls in Adidas plead fruitlessly for admission to the bus in the hope of getting a piece of Clint . |
| 24 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 25 | The rains carried on for Music at Oxford 's other major event , the Radley Fireworks . |
| 26 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
| 27 | It was so fascinating to observe that I was very sorry when the party broke up , and even more so when Margaret did not ask her old pal Richard to stay on for supper with us after the Rolls drove away . |
| 28 | School dragged on for month after month , year after year , with Rebecca Salmon going up to collect prize after prize on Speech Day . |
| 29 | Child suffers on for need of op |
| 30 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |