Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly many of the pupil self-assessment schemes seen during the survey would prove very useful as a basis for gathering information for departmental profiles , and could therefore be extremely helpful in the development of records of personal achievement , which are due to be introduced in all schools in the early 1990s . |
| 2 | She was secretary to Lady Margaret Hall from 1880 to 1914 and , as lady secretary to the AEW ( 1883–94 ) , was responsible for organizing tuition for women students and for supervising those not attached to a hall , who lived at home or with ‘ hostesses ’ in the city . |
| 3 | He had nine boilers of 200 gallons each for cooking food for cattle and horses . |
| 4 | I can see no greater option to empower general practitioners than in practices themselves holding funds for purchasing responsibility for their practice population . |
| 5 | If you are not aware that your eating habits change depending on the time of your menstrual cycle , it would be worth keeping diary for a few months to check . |
| 6 | What he discovered is that these ‘ disciplines ’ were not really about uncovering truth for its own sake ; the ‘ knowledge ’ they generated was inseparable from and instrumental in ‘ techniques of domination ’ . |
| 7 | The plaintiff sought to recover dues paid by him for landing stone for which , unknown to him , he was not liable because the stone was covered by an exemption . |
| 8 | If they did , however , then Stefan Edberg , the world 's leading tennis player , would surely be a candidate for opening batsman for the test team . |
| 9 | After producing beer for more than seven centuries , the brewery is likely to go out of business soon unless it can find a rich western partner . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the best day of my life , ’ said Capriati after defeating Graf for the first time . |
| 11 | Twenty-three years after becoming premier for the first time , he shows every indication of wanting to lead the Liberals against the Parti Québécois in another election . |
| 12 | She was educated at home by a German governess ; then , after keeping house for her brothers , in 1886 she went to Newnham College , Cambridge , where she and another were the first women to gain first-class honours in the Cambridge moral sciences tripos in 1889 . |
| 13 | After providing music for the Druid Theatre 's production of Behan 's ‘ The Hostage ’ , she was invited to join Johnny McDonagh 's new group Arcady , and subsequently toured the world for eighteen months with The Waterboys , as well as contributing to their ‘ Room To Roam ’ album . |
| 14 | Having been rejected after holding sway for so long , they are now seeking new ways of making friends and influencing people . |
| 15 | His death , in such strange circumstances , comes soon after beginning work for Brian Harley who , after so little success over the last few years , has suddenly come good . |
| 16 | But the final cutting edge was missing , with eight of the star-studded United line-up perhaps jaded after playing midweek for their respective countries in World Cup qualifiers . |
| 17 | He was attacked and stabbed in the chest in the town centre , after playing rugby for the college team . |
| 18 | After making provision for the payment of their debts and funeral expenses , they then proceeded to the disposal of their worldly goods . |
| 19 | It calculates this by class of business on the basis of a separate carry-forward of deferred acquisition expenses after making allowance for investment income . |
| 20 | Mr Richardson applied for outline permission to build the chalets after winning approval for a hotel and golf complex at Humbleton . |
| 21 | After winning applause for his onslaught , the 61-year-old champion of Euro-sceptics left the rostrum — to a standing ovation and chants of ‘ Nor-man , Nor-man ’ . |
| 22 | After receiving treatment for himself , Browning was sent off . |
| 23 | After advising counsel for the government that Washington could not keep on withholding relevant evidence , Chief Judge Platt ordered the government to produce all documents relating to how and where the bomb was placed on Flight 103 for inspection in camera by 1 October 1990 . |
| 24 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The third-ranking member of the CPV politburo , he had served as acting Premier for a few months in 1988 following the death of Pham Hung , but had then been dislodged from the post by the more conservative Do Muoi . |
| 26 | This potential increase of reporting rape incidents became the main rationale for seeking anonymity for the victim . |
| 27 | He was entirely serious , and had adopted a portentous tone suitable for expressing admiration for the Greatest Living Englishman . |
| 28 | In the 1860s Gaskell , Deacon & Co. was among the largest and most successful chemical works in Widnes , owing to Gaskell 's commercial management and Deacon 's method of recovering chlorine for bleaching-powder manufacture . |
| 29 | Designed for office dictation use , this machine followed Edison 's preferred method of using electricity for the motor , but it had acoustic recording and reproduction . |
| 30 | In 1731 the old custom of using Latin for legal records came to an end , but in practice many manorial records were written in English from much earlier times . |