Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 2 | Despite general neglect of the country 's heritage , restoration is a popular topic for debate , perhaps as compensation for the lack of action . |
| 3 | Peter received some firm words and was made to stay inside during breaktime for the next day . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've said I 'll stand in as coach for the under-fifteens . |
| 5 | Such is 53 : The reader will have noticed the complete absence of the first person , as the Poet , fully caught up in his task , existed merely as vehicle for the other 's praise . |
| 6 | If you do it through A B S A , the government will give another ten thousand pounds so of course for the orchestra or the institution whether it 's opera , ballet , concert or whatever is , but it must be arts gets the extra money so of course that in a sense is very enabling . |
| 7 | On her properties she usually thought only of leasehold for the most superior housing , as at Alderley Edge , where the houses had between one and five acres each . |
| 8 | Pictures of the chairman ten years ago or the old plant before the renovations are only of interest for the company history and are definitely not for current use . |
| 9 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |
| 10 | ‘ My description will be Community Representative which I hope will result in an organisation with ideals to put the community and its needs first and will defend the high moral ground in politics together with support for the have-nots . ’ |
| 11 | A Roman Catholic taxi driver was shot and badly injured on Nov. 13 by loyalist paramilitaries apparently in retaliation for the IRA murders . |
| 12 | The guns were loaded , their portfires smoking gently in readiness for the French . |
| 13 | In recent years , strong parish based courses — especially in preparation for the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Confirmation — have grown up and schools have been happy to change their programme accordingly . |
| 14 | Thanks to our twice weekly lessons , Olivia and I had now become confident enough in Hindi for the practice of it to become enjoyable rather than tiresome — if only because people were so surprised to hear any non-Indian speak even the most stumbling version of it . |
| 15 | With regard to sinusoidal signals that are small enough in amplitude for the network response to be effectively linear , whatever the frequency the result embodied in equations ( 10.2 ) is conveniently expressed in terms of phasors . |
| 16 | The acknowledged leader in modern first editions , which have been greatly in vogue for the last two years . |
| 17 | After what seemed ages , Dustin thought he might be willing to co-star in John and Mary if only in gratitude for the bit of play-doctoring the two visitors had done . |
| 18 | The main source for the history of Jacobitism is the Stuart papers , but they have survived only in part for the period before 1715 , since the Stuart papers kept at the Scots College in Paris were almost totally destroyed by fire during the French Revolution . |
| 19 | He is also fiercely protective of that unbeaten record despite constantly saying that he 's only in boxing for the money . |
| 20 | Franco , together with some of his generals and ministers and the Falange , wanted to join in the war , but only in return for the prior supply of the items on a substantial shopping list . |
| 21 | Twenty years ago the sight of Japanese tourists lounging in the tropical garden of a Balinese hotel roused curiosity , especially since the Japanese did not travel much for pleasure in those days , and these tourists were only in Bali for the weekend . |
| 22 | Population regulation , however , if it has any advantage at all , can only be a long-term one ; it must therefore be a consequence of individual decisions to emigrate , taken on the grounds that conditions will be better elsewhere , not on the grounds that the population level must be kept down in order for the local resources to be conserved . |
| 23 | The film is bogged down in exposition for the first hour , remains plodding , and shifts uncertainly between protagonists . |
| 24 | The right politician must be put in charge of the Treasury to bring the economy back to even keel , reduce the trade deficit and force both inflation and interest rates down in time for the next election . |
| 25 | Most of the away fans would make it down in time for the game and little else . |
| 26 | As mentioned in this column last month , committees of the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union have already begun working informally together in preparation for the coming rugby season . |
| 27 | Putting the bid together in time for the mid-December deadline has meant a £2 million outlay on LASMO 's part . |
| 28 | Guns were only a small part of the Sussex output , and much better known were the ornamental cast-iron firebacks much in demand for the more sophisticated housing of the middling and upper ranks . |
| 29 | Exceptional groups profited from the war — notably those like shipbuilders and coopers whose specialised services were much in demand for the naval war . |
| 30 | According to one , data especially on output for the immediate post land reform period were later corrected and adjusted by officials causing one to question its credibility . |