Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the blitz on London in September nineteen forty , the government introduced a scheme whereby payments for damage to the furniture of persons earning less than four hundred pounds a year would be made , up to one hundred percent of the damage . |
| 2 | This report describes the referral patterns of women during pregnancy and the effect this has on the interpretation of perinatal risk ; compares crude perinatal mortality rates between different maternity units ; shows how adjustment for case mix influences the initial rates ; and suggests ways of making analyses of perinatal mortality rates more relevant for evaluating obstetric and neonatal care . |
| 3 | How lust for life defied two debilitating strokes |
| 4 | The consultation paper outlines how objectives for water quality could be set on a statutory basis and determined by actual use , for example fisheries , sport or water supply . |
| 5 | The PA 's international director Ian Taylor reported that the government through its Know How Fund for aid to eastern Europe had recently contributed £30,000 to the Senior Managers Attachment Programme ( SMAP ) . |
| 6 | Recent arguments about whether the level of state pensions has or has not risen over time relative to average adult per capita income , about whether pensions should or should not be more generous today , and about how criteria for change in the level of pension payments should be set , are all important , but they are essentially distinct from the issue of whether the receipt of state benefits necessarily creates a dependency in the recipient which would not otherwise exist . |
| 7 | Apart from the system of Speenhamland , which was judged a disastrous failure in Britain , little thought was given again to the idea until the turn of this century when proposals for family allowances were being seriously discussed by a variety of left-wing political and feminist groups . |
| 8 | Lest we are in any doubt about where responsibility for pedestrian casualties lies , propaganda on pedestrian accidents is aimed at the pedestrian , rarely at the motorist : as one ‘ public information announcement ’ has it , ‘ One false move and you 're dead . ’ |
| 9 | This is of great importance in providing a basis for the cultivation of cereals and the grazing of animals in an area where opportunities for agriculture are severely restricted . |
| 10 | The model serves well for interpersonal relationships but is less useful for looking at mass communications where opportunities for feedback are not always present and where the power and resources of the two parties may be vastly disproportionate . |
| 11 | Of course , if there is only one nation , one leader , one theology , why vote for division , why vote for another leader ? |
| 12 | The knowledge and understanding gained has value in prioritising policies when guidelines for practice are being considered and for the counselling provisions which are now mandatory under The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act which regulates infertility services and comes into effect in July 1991 . |
| 13 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 14 | As an ‘ outsider ’ , I find it difficult to understand why applications for funding have to go through TWO ( I appreciate the need for one ! ) bureaucratic systems before they are approved , particularly for such relatively small amounts as this . |
| 15 | At the UCCA building in Cheltenham where applications for university places are processed , it 's been chaos today , with worried students calling for advice . |
| 16 | At the UCCA building in Cheltenham where applications for university places are processed , it 's been chaos today , with worried students calling for advice . |
| 17 | The defence societies constantly warn that most complaints are provoked by doctors failing to communicate adequately , so there is an argument for adopting the ‘ defensive ’ practice of our American colleagues when consent for treatment is sought : but do our patients have the stomach for an American approach ? |
| 18 | In 1956 , at a time when eligibility for jury service was still limited by a property qualification , Lord Devlin described juries as ‘ predominantly male , middle-aged , middle-minded and middle-class ’ . |
| 19 | That is why selection for housing is based on housing need not on financial need , that 's the point , that 's why you do it according to housing need , not for money because the money side has been neutralised . |
| 20 | In London , where orders for transfer are made by district judges of the Principal Registry , appeal lies to a judge of the Family Division . |
| 21 | Capital invests where prospects for accumulation seem relatively promising ( where , for example , labour is relatively inexpensive ) and disinvests from areas and regions where prospects for profitability are less promising . |
| 22 | Capital invests where prospects for accumulation seem relatively promising ( where , for example , labour is relatively inexpensive ) and disinvests from areas and regions where prospects for profitability are less promising . |
| 23 | It is not perhaps surprising that concern over the handling of agricultural matters has been expressed from a number of parks including Exmoor and the North York Moors where pressures for reclamation have been , and perhaps still are , considerable . |
| 24 | But why stop to wonder at the very point where cause for wonder really begins ? |
| 25 | ’ Ransom strips ’ arise in a number of situations where land for development can only be reached by crossing land not in the vendor 's or developer 's ownership . |
| 26 | Programmers in the second tournament had all been provided with the results of the first , including Axelrod 's analysis of why Tit for Tat and other nice and forgiving strategies had done so well . |
| 27 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 28 | The cases where English for Business/Commerce feature in those awards are : |
| 29 | North of The Border the escape route provided by sanctuary in Edinburgh became redundant by the passing of the Bankruptcy ( Scotland ) Act of 1913 , though the last entry in the court book of the Bailie of Holyrood under whose care the debtors lived , was dated 1880 , when imprisonment for debt was in most cases abolished . |
| 30 | We assume that politics takes shape here in its purest form since it is a central arena where struggles for power are staged . |