Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are not violin sonatas as we know them , rather sonatas for piano with violin accompaniment . |
| 2 | But little was known of the nature and causation of mental disorder and so provision for treatment was minimal . |
| 3 | It took only minutes for Lubor to drive her to her hotel , but as she thanked him for lunch and he handed her back her parcel , he replied , ‘ Lunch was a happy time for me also , ’ and did n't waste a moment to enquire , ‘ Shall we have a happy dinner together this evening ? ’ |
| 4 | The seemingly endless lengths of costly fabric which the masked ladies bought when they were in London were almost entirely presents for family and friends . |
| 5 | Three secretaries who in March had taken the unprecedented step of tendering their resignations to the GPC [ see also p. 37333 ] were also affected : Izz al-Din Mohammad al-Hinshiri , hitherto Justice Secretary , was moved to the Secretariat of Transport and Communications while Mubarak al-Shamikh and Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim , hitherto Secretaries for Transport and for Higher Education respectively , stood down . |
| 6 | The man said that he had been alone in a cell 4 metres by 5 metres , with only loudspeakers for company for a week . |
| 7 | At present the EEC Nine are around 95–97% self-sufficient in beef production so opportunities for expansion appear to be limited . |
| 8 | This is reflected in the annual subscriptions , which have been only £10 for family membership , and £2 for a junior membership . |
| 9 | PLEASE only telephone for information if you are REALLY interested in the item for sale . |
| 10 | WHY should pensioners living in ‘ sheltered ’ accommodation pay only £5 for TV licences ? |
| 11 | We have decided human nature is bad , that people only work for money , respond only to the profit principle , and must be controlled by threats and punishments . |
| 12 | In Social Security Appeal Tribunals , the claimant will receive only compensation for loss of earnings ( if any ) and travelling expenses . |
| 13 | On Oct. 2 a Cabinet reshuffle was announced , after Michel Charasse , hitherto Budget Minister , and Jean-Marie Rausch , hitherto Minister-Delegate for Commerce and Artisans , were elected to the Senate . |
| 14 | The trick in designing a successful patent system is to provide a big enough incentive for invention , but not such a large and long-lived cushion that the benefits of competition are suppressed for ever . |
| 15 | Oesophageal acidity and motility were monitored under ambulatory conditions for 24 hours on the fourth day of treatment , after a wash out period of 10 days during which patients received only antacids for relief of symptoms . |
| 16 | Unless the objectives outlined in the first year of the Medau Society 's Development Plan are achieved only applications for support to specific projects in line with the Council 's strategy would be considered in future . |
| 17 | Many of the full-time farmers and the more established part-time farmers were already at maximum output so room for increase was limited . |
| 18 | And so education for society became paramount . |
| 19 | There are other law officers who are politicians and members of the government , all of whom are expected to act impartially in their legal functions , but there is obviously scope for ambiguity and interpretation here . |
| 20 | These toxins are made by bacteria that thrive in the crevices where teeth meet gums ; so treatments for gum disease tend to focus on getting rid of the germs . |
| 21 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |
| 22 | The manufacturer 's quotation will give information about the price of the product and any special terms ( eg discount for cash payment within seven days ) . |
| 23 | These are not necessarily forces for continuity but they may act as barriers to government attempts to impose a new line of policy . |
| 24 | So Bill for instance is he to just carry on as if it 's ongoing |
| 25 | The " gilt only " scheme , which was advocated by workers in the United States , consists essentially of using only gilts for breeding . |
| 26 | Forecasters may attempt to identify shifts as between , say : * preferences towards work and leisure orientations ; * preferences for individually determined as opposed to governmentally determined expenditure ( eg pressure for tax reductions , restricting local government expenditure etc ) ; * traditional authority/religious personal ethics as opposed to personal freedom and individualistic behaviour . |
| 27 | ‘ We had only tents for shelter and we tried to make concrete blocks . |
| 28 | By then , the team will have marched 10 miles a day for a fortnight to reach base camp and endured temperatures of -40C and galeforce winds — with only tents for shelter . |
| 29 | The theme running through Victorian Darwinistic science was that women were merely vehicles for reproduction and were thus nearer nature ( and the lower animals ) than men , but towards the end of the century a more positive view of motherhood emerged , largely as a result of eugenic concern about the quality of the race . |
| 30 | The next example shows how the reported form may sometimes have the reporting clause embedded as a parenthesis , so that the whole sentence resembles , in word order , the structure of quoted speech , but with only commas for punctuation : |