Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 2 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 3 | She 's worse than you for the bingo . |
| 4 | Free impasto work will require a different type of brush than one for the application of thin washes . |
| 5 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 6 | " The Moslem Brothers , who are more anxious than anyone for the stability of Egypt and the welfare of its citizens adhere to legal means in their preaching and the defence of their right to undertake activities to realise their goals , " he said . |
| 7 | if nothing for the fact that the message that is coming home loud and clear is this request for clarification , the advent of certainty , one way or another . |
| 8 | Brownie points , though , for the clock radio , iron and bathrobes — if none for the heating , which consists of a Dimplex convector-cum-night storage heater . |
| 9 | Anyway I suppose before we decide we really need to know how much the National Party are going to charge us if anything for the actual posters and what the posters look like . |
| 10 | And it disturbs you to realise that I did not come after you for the reasons you thought , does n't it ? ’ |
| 11 | I 'll deliver when you for the half an hour when you come back . |
| 12 | In 1946 it was recognised as a dual-purpose breed and the herdbook was divided , with a section for dairy Lincoln Reds as well as one for the beef animals . |
| 13 | Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) . |
| 14 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |