Example sentences of "[adv] for [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , Midgley then booked Hodge , presumably for questioning the leniency of the decision . |
| 2 | In peaceful times this levy might be enough for policing the Papal State , but to stave off imperial claims Innocent used paid troops and relied heavily on diplomatic manoeuvres to gain the support of allies . |
| 3 | Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies |
| 4 | So much for telling the truth . |
| 5 | So much for clarifying the doctrine of neutrality . |
| 6 | Ed , — Thank you very much for sending the LINK magazine to my husband for the past few years . |
| 7 | Thank you very much for supporting the evening , nice to see so many faces , as I said especially on a summer evening like today . |
| 8 | Sue : thank you very much for taking the time to talk to me . |
| 9 | Right , thanks very much for doing the erm the questionnaire last week , okay ? |
| 10 | Legal fees and stamp duty for sale and purchase are reimbursed to existing employees ; new staff receive reimbursement of these costs only for buying the new house . |
| 11 | By the middle of the seventeenth century the parish coffin was regarded as fit only for transporting the corpses of the poor to the grave . |
| 12 | No ordinary carriage , not subject to any hasty conversion to ensure its usefulness , but out of the railway factory yards of Leningrad and designed only for transporting the prisoners . |
| 13 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 14 | Described as ‘ blue wave ’ , The Hamsters have carved a niche in the music business not only for making the most appearances in gig guides everywhere , but also for the quality of their music . |
| 15 | Cost analysis is the starting point not only for deciding the subject of the exercise but also of the exercise itself . |
| 16 | Cost analysis is the starting point not only for deciding the subject of the exercise but also of the exercise itself . |
| 17 | On Jan. 5 eight journalists were suspended , apparently for opposing the ban . |
| 18 | ‘ Except perhaps for obstructing the police by not revealing all this a lot earlier . ’ |
| 19 | The company 's executive managers are responsible for managing the organization that is set up , not necessarily for managing the change work itself . |
| 20 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
| 21 | I 'm all for having the ball in play as often as possible . |
| 22 | I mean these two are equivalent cos our rules say so for multiplying the indices . |
| 23 | Moreover , he saw Preobrazhensky as arguing for the violation of the material essence of the law of labour expenditure and not merely for violating the social form of the law of value . |
| 24 | We talked continuously , ranging over many topics , and laughed a lot and I was mentally hugging myself merely for having the good luck to be with such a friendly , amusing and vital girl . |
| 25 | The Design Controller does n't have a program written especially for changing the pattern but I 've spend some time wondering if any of the programs could be used for this purpose , even if they were n't originally intended to be ; however , I 've had no success . |
| 26 | Firstly , the statistics appearing in the background paper were frequently berated for failing to make clear the actual level of default amongst partnerships and thus for misdirecting the profession on the issues . |
| 27 | The examination boards , newly grouped on broadly regional lines , are responsible for administering the examinations , but no longer for determining the syllabuses or the methods of examination . |
| 28 | The way to recovery lies in learning to place that blame where it belongs , to use the anger it arouses and to give yourself the praise you deserve just for surviving the abuse . |
| 29 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 30 | No just for tying the boats up , that 's all |