Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She ran successfully for the Vice-Presidentship of the Student Union . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A small charge is made locally for the use of the showers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The most troubling of these measures is the first , which is presumably for the benefit of the security services . |
| 14 | The thermometer watch can measure either air or water temperature — presumably for the benefit of winter swimmers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Some were in use as fulling mills whilst others were used predominantly for the grinding of barley for brewing the monastery 's beer supply . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is always good advice to read widely for the sake of your historical knowledge and understanding but also for the improvement of written English . |
| 26 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 27 | ASL compensates by using compound signs such as TABLE/CHAIR etc. for the concept of furniture . |
| 28 | However , suppose that only in the smooth regions were galaxies and stars formed and were conditions right for the development of complicated self-replicating organisms like ourselves who were capable of asking the question : Why is the universe so smooth ? |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | Now I think the regeneration of the economy of North Yorkshire in general and Harrogate in particular will be a part of the regeneration of the national economy , when things turn right for the nation as a whole , they will turn right for North Yorkshire as a whole and for Harrogate in particular . |