Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iago seems to be acting wholly for the others ' good , since , as he challenges us to deny , ‘ this advice I give is free and honest . |
| 2 | Provided that the receipt under the Deed of Covenant is applied wholly for the church 's charitable purposes , then the total amount of tax Tradeco deducts will be refundable to the church . |
| 3 | And booksellers were ready for it with pretty much the right books at the right prices to enable them to compete effectively for the consumer 's cautiously placed pound . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's in there and you 're out here , carrying on for the children 's sake . |
| 5 | Erm thanks very much for the directions er you gave me , it 's quite awkward coming off the main road there cos you really have |
| 6 | So much for the son 's manic triumph over the phallic mother symbolized by the arrogant domination and tree-felling exploits of Gilgamesh or the Amazon-slaying of the Greek heroes ; but what of the homosexual element in the situation to which I alluded earlier ? |
| 7 | You said thank you very much for the duck 's egg . |
| 8 | Some of the neighbours , however , do n't care much for the spotters ' activities . |
| 9 | So much for the Opposition 's promise that no one earning under £20,000 a year would be hit . |
| 10 | Equity markets recoiled from these gloomy indicators by falling sharply at the beginning of the week , pausing only for the Chancellor 's speech at the Tory Party conference , but still failing to recover lost ground by the close . |
| 11 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 12 | Catering manager Kirsty Yearsley and her staff cater not only for the Board 's 300 employees , but also for 100 civil servants who occupy the building . |
| 13 | Integration is still very much in its infancy and working examples of its practice need to be documented , not only for the school 's own evaluation purposes , but also to provide discussion documents to encourage other schools to take a careful and considered look at their own provision . |
| 14 | The company is responsible not only for the meters ' manufacture , but also their installation and commissioning — and the decommissioning of the old Spectra-Tek equipment . |
| 15 | ‘ Margaret , ’ I coaxed , ‘ say yes , if only for the General 's sake . |
| 16 | R. E. Kaske puts it extremely neatly by claiming only for the Miller 's Tale an " " implicit orientation " " towards " " a controlling set of [ moral and religious ] values " " creating a framework within which , ultimately , the actions within the tale and the actions of writing , telling and reading the tale , are to be evaluated . |
| 17 | To quote Piesse again , " If there is much legal jargon and intricacy of arrangement [ the client ] may feel he is the victim of some art practised perhaps for the draftsman 's own purposes or at least with neglectful indifference to its effect on ordinary people " ( p54 ) . |
| 18 | Thanks to cosmetic ingenuity , the damage had been repaired sufficiently for the coroner 's jury to view the corpse when the inquest was held in the prison later that morning . |
| 19 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 20 | The absence of such provision has the real result , among others , of a huge deficiency of qualified engineers , designers , technologists and technicians , with extremely damaging consequences for Britain manufacturing and production — and so for the country 's economic prosperity . |
| 21 | Such conduct is now conversion by statute but this is merely for the draftsman 's terminological convenience and has no effect on the concept of conversion at common law : for this reason , it must be kept separate in our analysis . |
| 22 | Male activists are out every night unless they stay in for the wife 's one night out . |
| 23 | Send the form to your local social security office , and you 'll be sent claim form BW 1 to be completed in order to receive the book of orders to cash in for the widow 's allowance . |
| 24 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 25 | The Spartans offence then fumbled the ball and seconds later running back Eric Okatu went in for the Tornadoes ' second T.D . |
| 26 | Within two minutes Mike Hall put Peter Dods in for the Barbarians ' third try , and another four followed in a procession interrupted by one for Newport by John Thomas . |
| 27 | The size and range of the country 's sex business may mean that Thailand is in for the world 's fastest upswing in HIV infection . |
| 28 | He , Rufus , could have got just about enough together for the petrol en route and maybe his own food . |
| 29 | Increasingly , however , the professionals concerned are finding ways in which they can do their own jobs properly , while working together for the child 's benefit . |
| 30 | Well , I 'll tell you one thing , Monday 's not gon na be wonderful for me , I 've got to go into hospital for a little operation er b but seriously , I 'll be out on Tuesday , but I 'll , I 'll be away for the week er , because the Doc said do n't come back to , to work till a week on Monday , so I 'll , I 'll try and listen if I can , but what have you got for us ? |