Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 2 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 3 | Because advertising revenue is now critical , a paper or TV channel catering successfully for the views of the poor or the unemployed would soon go bankrupt , whereas those meeting the minority tastes of the wealthy remain financially sound . |
| 4 | Although this is not accepted widely among the medical profession , there are many reports of it being used successfully for the treatment of hyperactive children . |
| 5 | Following the recent and much-lamented demolition of the Firestone Factory by Trafalgar House , we pressed successfully for the listing of the School of Music . |
| 6 | She ran successfully for the Vice-Presidentship of the Student Union . |
| 7 | Having seen Freddie Kurz ‘ guest ’ successfully for the Palace during the War seasons of 1944–46 , including scoring a hat-trick on his Palace debut against Queens Park Rangers on 28 August 1944 ( 7–4 ) , Palace supporters of the period petitioned the Board to secure the free-scoring centre-forward on a permanent basis . |
| 8 | Agreement had been secured locally for the deployment of 500 armed UN peacekeeping troops in the capital , Mogadishu , and on Aug. 28 the UN had approved the deployment of an additional 3,000 troops . |
| 9 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 10 | A small charge is made locally for the use of the showers . |
| 11 | The design of the area will depend upon whether you have a practical room available ( dissection , if you are including this , will require hand washing facilities ) , a reading area and somewhere for the provision of supplementary reading , and whether the library can be used . |
| 12 | Thus , within the discipline of literature , there must be a place not only for poetry , but also for nineteenth-century German poetry , and a place somewhere for the use of fibre optics in cable television . |
| 13 | Not being for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons it is in the general enlightened opinion of the time wholly for the benefit of the community , although such benefit be intangible . |
| 14 | Management would not be entitled to interest relief on loans to contribute capital to a partnership which acquires a company because the loans would not be " used wholly for the purposes of a trade carried on by the partnership " ( see s362 ( 1 ) ( b ) ) . |
| 15 | The most troubling of these measures is the first , which is presumably for the benefit of the security services . |
| 16 | The thermometer watch can measure either air or water temperature — presumably for the benefit of winter swimmers . |
| 17 | But these commissions , mostly for the originals of jokes and cartoons which Willis had managed in former times to sell to magazines , had grown fewer and fewer in the last ten years , as , indeed , had the drawings themselves . |
| 18 | One small room shows a splendid set of Rubens sketches , of scenes from the Metamorphoses of Ovid , done mostly for the King of Spain 's hunting-lodge . |
| 19 | Most of our panel do the job on a semi-voluntary basis , mostly for the love of the hobby , and out of concern for the welfare of fish in general . |
| 20 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 21 | What one found in the stricter forms of feudalism was an attempt to organize landed wealth more directly and coherently for the recruitment of knights . |
| 22 | Matters went awry for the Allies from the start . |
| 23 | Four ‘ change-facilitating factors ’ are picked out by Ramon ; heavy and unchanging reliance on segregated institutions ; the existence of a minority of psychiatrists prepared to act politically ( while not having the desire to act in a party political framework ) ; the autonomous nature of the regions leading to more enthusiastic reform beginning in socialist and communist areas ; and perhaps most importantly for the concerns of this book , |
| 24 | This is not simply for the purpose of recouping capital costs , but more importantly for the purpose of generating huge profits for the private sector developers . |
| 25 | The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs . |
| 26 | But more importantly for the Republic of Cyprus , shaped by the late Archbishop Makarios , the conference will concentrate minds on the division of the island . |
| 27 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 28 | Some were in use as fulling mills whilst others were used predominantly for the grinding of barley for brewing the monastery 's beer supply . |
| 29 | Their venture had been from start to finish " planned by the woollen interests , financed from the profits of that trade and built predominantly for the needs of the woollen industry . " |
| 30 | Her work for the early suffrage campaigns also began in the mid-1870s , when she lectured widely for the cause in London , Manchester , Birmingham , and elsewhere . |