Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiping her tears with the corner of her apron and clutching the baby to her she searched for the reasons for this volte-face . |
| 2 | Padraig Flynn , the Irish Environment Minister , called for the closure of the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield , on the north-west coast of England , and Norway , Sweden and Denmark called for the plans for another such plant at Dounreay in Scotland be cancelled . |
| 3 | Do you have a strong logo and make consistent use of a particular style of print for the headings for all school correspondence ? |
| 4 | A survey of industrial guides , directories , etc. , enabled the present author to calculate some sort of employment statistics for the mid-1980s for some 80% of identifiable establishments on the Chirton Estate , including all of the larger plants . |
| 5 | However , few engagements were noted for the fighters for several days , although Sgt. Robertson saw three Bf109s above him on 20th. , but was unable to reach their altitude . |
| 6 | ‘ I am responsible for the preparations for such visitors . |
| 7 | These initial samples will be used as the guidelines for any such packaging , advertising , labelling and the like on any subsequent Licensed Products to be published and shall not be materially changed by without 's written approval . |
| 8 | If as reader , you can not imagine how different they are in structure I suggest you try your hand at drawing the relationship between the partners for each example . |
| 9 | Every now and then I blew desperately down the throat or probed between the ribs for that almost imperceptible beat . |
| 10 | Yet , as will be seen in the next section , there were quite strong correlations between the scores for this variable and project success . |
| 11 | He can only highlight the atmosphere supporting the plot , especially those circumstances where he has to portray differences between classes and thus general behaviour , idiosyncrasies , etc. , for example the contrast that must be made between the dances for all and sundry in the town square and those for the aristocrats in the ballroom of Romeo and Juliet . |
| 12 | Er , what was the plan about the others for all you knew who you believed was there , might have been somewhere else in the flat . |
| 13 | Some of the traditional theories used to account for the failure of the extreme right in Great Britain do have something to say about the reasons for this . |
| 14 | Intrigued , there was much discussion about the reasons for this strange development . |
| 15 | We know that black elderly people , for example , have very little contact with formal social services but we know far too little about the reasons for this . |
| 16 | The hearing at Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland , was told Mr Tipping ( 34 ) , of Cobham , Surrey , was unable to open either his main or reserve parachute — but witnesses were only able to speculate about the reasons for this . |
| 17 | The multiple causes of migration and the problems which individuals have are so diverse that it is impossible to generalize about the reasons for these differences . |
| 18 | Is he concerned about the rewards for that achievement — the brutal loss of employment , the economic devastation of the coalfields , the adverse effect on our balance of payments , which will get worse , the excessive and inevitable energy dependence , and the deceitful diversion of funds from the coalfields as a result of the Government 's approach to the European money that should be available to us ? |
| 19 | There has been an undercurrent of anxiety about the hospitals for many years and lip service has been paid to the idea of replacing them with community hostels . |
| 20 | Elinor 's looking through the records for another tango to practise with Nigel . |
| 21 | He was promptly pitched overboard and just as promptly swallowed by a great fish or whale which the Lord had directed through the waters for this especial purpose . |
| 22 | Such areas were not often used for arable , until later drainage operations ensured that water could be kept off the fields for most of the year . |
| 23 | A group of mums working on a one day per week rota can look after the arrangements for this . |
| 24 | One of the problems for those entrepreneurs , and other corporate managers , who do seek to act as professional industrialists is that the context in which they operate is dominated by the values described in earlier chapters . |
| 25 | Most of the resources for this work have come from within the Division 's normal programme of research . |
| 26 | From this we can go on to discover one of the rules for this sort of crime fiction . |
| 27 | All the important pieces were contested by trade and private buyers and most of the prices for these should be considered equivalent to retail prices . |
| 28 | The median and minimum of the readings for each patient were used for intergroup comparisons and for assessment of the relationship between blood flow and endoscopic grade . |
| 29 | Again on receipt of the bills for that . |
| 30 | At first the pairing family co-existed fairly easily with the gens , because it was not a formal organized institution as was the gens , and so the implications of the gens for such things as property and politics remained unchallenged . |