Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts .
2 I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour .
3 ‘ You could probably knock a little off the price for that . ’
4 At a national level , there is a debate going on about the need for generic units to underpin those qualifications which are highly occupationally-specific so that , for example , skills in areas such as literacy , numeracy and communication can be promoted .
5 McClellan 's system has been used successfully as the foundation for provision at his former authority of Tottenham Public Libraries , and a handful of authorities still use those ideas today in modified form .
6 Although it may be all right for the spokesman for the Opposition to talk about taking no measures , surely from all parts of the Province there is a cry for a security policy now to carry out what his own colleagues said would have to be done : to extirpate the IRA ?
7 Empowerment through widespread use of communication of information has been seen by Clark ( 1979 ) to be a key feature of the ringi-ko decision-making system , where printed documents circulate widely through the enterprise for comment and discussion .
8 Obviously good enough for the MP for Darlington to put his hand in his pocket for .
9 In this context , this means used and disclosed only for the purposes for which it is compiled , or for which authority is given , or with the donor 's consent or for certain other limited purposes .
10 Two teachers can just about find the room and comparative peace to talk together about the arrangements for the next lesson and next week .
11 See Chapter 5 below for the procedure for setting aside bankruptcy orders .
12 Both she and Dr Brewis were also concerned about the many patients on their wards who came from outside Newcastle : they knew even less about the arrangements for community care within those districts .
13 In the case of Monetary Union , the situation arises not just from the special treatment accorded to the UK and Denmark , but also from the fact that it was appreciated that not all Member States would meet the rather strict criteria for economic convergence laid down as the precondition for participation in the monetary union ; such States are referred to as ‘ Member States with a derogation ’ , and would , inter alia , be excluded from the decision-making process on certain matters .
14 When they went in halfway through the morning for a warming mug of tea , Elizabeth opened the oven door and lifted the lid of the big brown earthenware stew-crock .
15 In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds .
16 We have seen above that this involves a shift from the concrete perceptual meaning of " following a phenomenon with the senses " to viewing perception merely as the basis for asserting that the infinitive 's event really took place .
17 The following example of the verb hear , while not equivalent to " is reported to have " , represents another case where perception is evoked merely as the condition for asserting a fact : ( 77 ) With these words , Mr Weller left the room , and immediately afterwards was heard to shut the street-door .
18 Thus even though know has the operative sense in this use , the operation of obtaining knowledge is seen merely as the condition for predicating the infinitive 's event of the direct object .
19 Ipswich have used the new rolling substitutes rule to their advantage this season but it often means that the first choice players are only off the pitch for five or ten minutes at a time .
20 They offer adults ways of returning to education , perhaps through the desire for self development and change , or in search of fresh interests and commitments .
21 In Marx 's view there are also longer-term threats to the survival of capitalism , especially through the tendency for the rate of profit to fall .
22 In turn this had a substantial impact on industrial organisation , most especially through the demand for labour and capital .
23 Mozart did n't write much after the concerto for harp , oboe and string orchestra , apart from an unfinished Requiem Mass , which no one could be persuaded to perform .
24 The seasonal charts are for late evenings , with the Sun far enough below the horizon for the sky to be dark .
25 There were , broadly , two interrelated reasons for this , the first relating to Britain 's economic and Imperial difficulties , the second to the internal dissension in all three parties , a symptom perhaps of the need for a realignment of political parties .
26 It believes that the government wants a short-term profitable fishery regardless of the consequences for the crab fishery or the dolphins .
27 And the financial institutions , subscribing fully to the ideology of the ‘ smoothly functioning capital market ’ , take it for granted that the best interests of their personal sector customers are served by placing funds where they can get the ‘ best ’ and ‘ safest ’ monetary returns , regardless of the consequences for productive investment .
28 The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others .
29 In both cases , regardless of the reasons for measured differences in attainment between groups of pupils , both justice and need demand that we act to alter an inequitable status quo .
30 Some aspects of shared planning are valuable enough to survive regardless of the competition for school admissions .
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