Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truly Sartrean terms , Nu:an concludes that for the contemporary revolutionary writer the central dilemma is located in the problematical relationship between writer and reading public . |
| 2 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 3 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 4 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 5 | But the Coroner says that for the time being , Marc 's death will remain a mystery . |
| 6 | Someone who , through years of toil among parish registers , discerns and for the first time explains the minutiae of demographic change in a northern mill town , is clearly doing that sort of thing . |
| 7 | Experts know little about how people are coping , but research in the past couple of years shows that for the majority of India 's people the cooking energy crisis is already here . |
| 8 | A note on the file at St Martin's-le-Grand shows that for the year ending 31 December , 1920 , the Electrophone Company 's income from subscribers was £11 868 , its operating expenses were £5866 , and its royalty payment to the Post Office was just £496 . |
| 9 | Sales of prime London properties are picking up and the latest quarterly bulletin from the London Research Centre shows that for the first time in over a year , average prices have not fallen . |
| 10 | Figure 3 shows that for the nine patients as a group , there was a linear relation between the mean plasma gastrin during infusion of G17 plotted on a log scale and the mean acid output at each of the G17 doses . |
| 11 | Cecil recalls that for the tour the crew members were drawn from various squadrons from 5 Group . |
| 12 | Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson said that it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House of Commons to decide whether such privilege has been infringed . |
| 13 | Although in the past the courts and the House of Commons both claimed the exclusive right to determine whether or not a privilege existed , it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House to decide whether such privilege has been infringed : see Erskine May on Parliamentary Practice , 21st ed. ( 1989 ) , pp. 147–160 . |
| 14 | Section 742(8) states that for the purposes of this section any body corporate incorporated outside the United Kingdom shall be treated as if it were resident outside the United Kingdom , whether it is so resident or not . |
| 15 | It seems that for the vast majority of dog owners , the very presence of canine company simply makes us feel good . |
| 16 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 17 | If the sense of the magnetic field is irrelevant , but the same physics applies as for the first reversal , the pole that starts at the North Geographic Pole must once again pass through the Americas . |
| 18 | As an illustration of this negative relationship Lucas notes that for the US his estimate of the variance of aggregate demand is 0.00064 , while for Argentina it is more than 20 times higher at 0.01555 ; the estimate of β 1 for the US is 0.910 , whereas for Argentina it is much lower at 0.011 . |
| 19 | It follows that for the alterations to a four bedroomed bungalow to include any necessary enlargement of a bathroom come to a figure which I allow of twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 20 | On checking artists , names appended it appears that up to 1756 Jeffreys did most of the engraving for Figures of Plants but thereafter his name disappears except for the odd plate , which may well have been made earlier . |
| 21 | As Britain has 22 million homes with television , this means that for the foreseeable future the majority will be stuck with the terrestrial four channels . |
| 22 | This means that for the boom to continue it would be necessary to undertake capacity increasing investment , that is , increase the stock of fixed capital . |
| 23 | This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care . |
| 24 | This means that for the first time doctors may be able to tell if an infected person who feels well is in danger of becoming ill , so that they can try to do something to prevent this . |
| 25 | Given that almost three-quarters of lone mothers are on income support this means that for the majority income will not change , regardless of how much maintenance is collected . |
| 26 | The new draft Directive means that for the first time , EC legislation formally recognises Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 27 | This means that for the forseeable future , prisoners remanded in custody by magistrates , will have to be held in police cells until a jail place becomes available . |
| 28 | ‘ That means that for the third year running not a single council house can be built despite the fact we have more than 4,000 people on the waiting list and last year had to rehouse 750 homeless families . ’ |
| 29 | Which now means that for the next oh and Alex , Alex is being a stupid tart as well about this thing . |
| 30 | But I mean basically , that means that for the , tomorrow morning 's breakfast programme , I want a package including lots of different views , but for drive time which is five till six in the evening , I just want a straightforward , two minute head-to-head , one-to-one interview but for lunchtime which is C A T O , which is Cambridgeshire at One , which is our lunchtime programme , I 'd like you to put all the views into a script of about forty seconds , and do n't forget , for the two o'clock bulletin , which is a very short one , I 'd just like three sentences of copy which sums up the story . |