Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those banks that chose to ditch their exposures to Mexico and Argentina mostly received kudos for doing so . |
| 2 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 3 | How will you go about lavishly praising people for giving up their time to attend the meeting ? |
| 4 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 5 | He welcomed the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and William III appointed him a commissioner of the Admiralty , a responsibility he took very seriously , effectively using Whitehaven for gathering intelligence during the Irish war of 1689–90 . |
| 6 | This approach effectively placed services for the black communities on the margin of mainstream service delivery and turned collective issues concerned with race into individual case work ( Ben-Tovim et al . |
| 7 | Somewhere along the Ob river in central Siberia , slowly building strength for a 3,500-mile flight , wait perhaps 50 Siberian cranes . |
| 8 | ‘ Bas and I gave a little drinks party for all the local planning committee . |
| 9 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 10 | Many leading designers have since designed fittings for the 2D . |
| 11 | This edition additionally incorporates information for those working in residential homes . |
| 12 | I find it an insult to my bottom that I was forced to sit on it while playing this badly designed excuse for a game . |
| 13 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |
| 14 | When designing your garden , plan to include shrubs like pyracantha and Berberis darwinii that give flowers all year round and thereby provide food for wildlife . |
| 15 | French leaders would humbly seek absolution for Pompidou 's awful error in failing to attend Persepolis , and seek contracts for nuclear power stations . |
| 16 | The reports mostly provide information for the donors ; many are in English ( the national language of Mozambique is Portuguese ) . |
| 17 | Working in Grendon must be one of the most difficulkt places for an officer becausec we 're telling them they 're not dependant on their uniform but their personality and ability to relate to people . |
| 18 | While the region has traditionally written off 5 per cent of rates or poll tax bad debts — this year it could be £15 million — the finance director , Tony Taylor , promised yesterday that the council would vigorously pursue non-payers for the rest of the cash . |
| 19 | Rollin talks of it as ‘ feelings ’ , and so avoids this , yet his examples rather suggest choices for this course of action rather than that . ) |
| 20 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 21 | The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony . |
| 22 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 23 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The Chancellor may decide to encourage greater use of diesel : however , he has only limited scope for any price differentiation between DERV and petrol , for since December diesel has actually been 10 pence per gallon more expensive than unleaded petrol . |
| 25 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 26 | Truth to tell , the arrangement did n't look particularly promising : the Bowl resembled something for kitchen use , plain fired ceramic , large enough to whip eggs for a couple of soufflés . |
| 27 | Better developed services for people from minority ethnic groups . |
| 28 | It merely petrifies things for those who go on living . |
| 29 | The British defence chiefs also felt able to work on the assumption that the USSR would not feel strong enough to risk war for several more years . |
| 30 | At any rate , Bloch 's work is exciting , with long singing lines for the solo instrument over a rich orchestral texture , well coloured by brass and percussive timpani . |