Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] 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 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The man said that he had been alone in a cell 4 metres by 5 metres , with only loudspeakers for company for a week . |
| 6 | At present the EEC Nine are around 95–97% self-sufficient in beef production so opportunities for expansion appear to be limited . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These are not necessarily forces for continuity but they may act as barriers to government attempts to impose a new line of policy . |
| 12 | The " gilt only " scheme , which was advocated by workers in the United States , consists essentially of using only gilts for breeding . |
| 13 | ‘ We had only tents for shelter and we tried to make concrete blocks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 18 | But disappointed students , brought up with the idea that studying the subject of their choice was their legal right , appealed to the courts , who agreed with them , and so criteria for student selection became a matter for central government . |
| 19 | It does not , for instance , impinge on the fifteen or so criteria for sound initial teacher training which come from the CATE in its guidance about the professional education of those who teach in schools . |
| 20 | Most of us do , of course , sell lines other than books , even if only cards for Book Tokens . |
| 21 | Other work included gardening in the grounds , and in the summertime farmers would take away parties for pea-picking and potato-picking . |
| 22 | One particularly helpful observation made by the report was the identification of three key features which , although not exactly prescriptions for success , are certainly aspects that need to be incorporated . |
| 23 | Just rats for drowning . ’ |
| 24 | They 're just guns for hire : tough guys sent on a job . |
| 25 | The experiments are not particularly relevant to anything , they 're just experiments for experiment 's sake , one experiment illustrating a particular bit of theory ; it does n't do anything particularly useful , you just look at an oscilloscope and take some readings and hence you can demonstrate this bit of theory . |
| 26 | While forums such as these can take a community-wide approach , they rarely have executive power , being largely bodies for debate and comment . |
| 27 | They are just suggestions for day and half-day excursions to take in the best of the scenery , rather than the villages the tours pass through . |
| 28 | ( That some people lack these impulses is normally grounds for criticism ; we call them sadists , cruel , or , if it is by way of business , then merely hardened . ) |
| 29 | These objections do not cut any ice ; but there are nevertheless grounds for complaint . |
| 30 | After reaching this stage there are still opportunities for movement from small houses to large houses and on to Travel Inns which are often attached to a Beefeater Restaurant . |