Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 2 | The advantages to the reader are that he ‘ turns for help to the professional staff ; he learns to appreciate that his needs are not restricted by the limitations of the bookstock of one library . |
| 3 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 4 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 5 | Escom GmbH , Peripherals Europe 's parent , signed an OEM agreement with Conner to buy disk drives for use in Escom products over five years ; separately , Conner said that it will open a new European logistics centre alongside its manufacturing facility in Irvine , Scotland . |
| 6 | Also included in the pack are specimen compensation fund covenants for completion by either a recognised body or an individual solicitor or registered foreign lawyer . |
| 7 | Then Chola helped her carry it through to the inner room where the family sleeps for warmth in winter . |
| 8 | In the experimental fiction of our day that is sometimes called ‘ post-modernist ’ these conventions — such as the omniscient and intrusive authorial narrator — are retained in exaggerated and parodic forms that remind one of the metafictional jokes of Fielding , Sterne , Thackeray and Trollope ( one thinks for instance of Muriel Spark and John Fowles in this respect ) . |
| 9 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 10 | that cries for blood like a late Edwardian |
| 11 | He said the Government had ploughed £22.4m into housing authority ( see corr notes ) grants for work in Darlington since 1979 . |
| 12 | In order to substantially reduce the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands , significant changes are proposed — differentiating 3 zones of handicap in the UK 's LFA ( apart from Article 3(5) areas ) and linking new levels of HLCAs and capital grants for drainage to these ( see Table 14 ) . |
| 13 | Capital grants for drainage under both AHDS and AHGS schemes in the LFA should be reduced to 30% of costs in the proposed ‘ mountain zone ’ and ‘ intermediate zone , , and to 22 ½%; of costs ( the level outside the LFA ) in the ‘ marginal zone ’ in order to reduce incentives to drain upland wetlands and species-rich wet pastures/meadows . |
| 14 | These days the Glaswegian goes for consistency in the first ten places while riding as an understudy to a leader like LeMond . |
| 15 | at the caravan we never walk , we always go in he even goes for paper in bloody car , him ! |
| 16 | Trust goes for slice of the American pie |
| 17 | The narrator , Richard Papen , longs for entry to the college 's charmed but destructive inner circle — a clique of privileged students fired by their classics professor 's admiration for the ancient Greek mysteries of bucolic visions and violence . |
| 18 | NIPPON DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP STRIPS FOR ACTION IN THE JAPANESE MARKET UNDER NEW PRESIDENT |
| 19 | We will also seek further opportunities for the private sector to contribute , as it has for example with the Channel Tunnel , the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at Dartford , the second Severn Bridge and the Birmingham Northern Ring Road . |
| 20 | The centre stands for compromise between president and parliament — and compromise no longer seems a solution to their bitter war . |
| 21 | They 're going overland by motorbike ; it 's all in aid of SNAP the charity that stands for Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents at the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 22 | He stressed that his government " stands for co-operation with the West and will encourage foreigners to own up to 100 per cent of businesses " . |
| 23 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 24 | ‘ The four As , sometimes they just put figure 4 and capital A. It stands for Action Against Animal Abuse . ’ |
| 25 | It is suggested that the first unifying theme for 1992 should be ‘ The work of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ’ , and that work should start on preparing a modular exhibit , parts of which can be convertible to form smaller mobile exhibition stands for erection at other venues . |
| 26 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |
| 27 | The above Orders , which are now in force , specify cancellation notices for use under the 1992 Act ( 1942 ) and forms of request for repayment of credit ( 1943 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ It is really terrific news and it has done wonders for morale with everybody very upbeat , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 29 | [ A. Davidson , ‘ Sir John Evelyn ’ , E. A. Reid , ‘ Sir John Evelyn ’ ( typescript drafts for History of Parliament ) ; B. D. Henning , The House of Commons 1660–1690 , 1983 ; British Library , Harleian MSS 165 , ff. 156–9 ; M. Keeler , The Long Parliament , 1954 . ] |
| 30 | They will work with Sun on development of communications projects for nomadic computing — tying in with the work at Sun 's new FirstPerson unit ( CI No 2,119 ) , and is to use Sparc systems for all workstation products it develops for use in Russia . |