Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 3 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 4 | So much for the way in which our furry fauna have captivated so many kite flyers ; now to the practical aspects of how to take the skydiver up to a safe release height . |
| 5 | The Queen 's Speech is important not only for the way in which it deals with matters abroad , but also for its emphasis on matters at home . |
| 6 | The rise in the oil price after 1979 was mainly responsible not only for the growth in the share of this group of products in total imports from 1979 to 1984 but also for its decline during the following three years . |
| 7 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 8 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 9 | John talked , quickly and urgently , while Patrick drove along the M4 , crossed the Chiswick and Hammersmith Flyovers and slowed down for the traffic in Cromwell Road . |
| 10 | We must please be clear about those factors which actually matter , always bearing in mind that it is for the county council in the first instance and perhaps for the panel in the second instance , to take a decision about the suppression of past migration trends . |
| 11 | That has to speak highly for the way in which the software does its internal calculations and comes up with the answers . |
| 12 | Winds gusted to 70-80 mph at Glasgow and Edinburgh but , more ominously for the population in some other parts of the country where a blanket of thick snow still covered the ground , copious rainfall and exceptionally mild air from a southerly point swept Scotland . |
| 13 | The Iliad went in for the triumvirate in the Ladbroke of 1991 at Leopardstown and then the biggest success of all came at Cheltenham where Destriero was supposed to have landed a gamble of over £1m in taking the Supreme Novices Hurdle . |
| 14 | But if we do n't get a good response to this I might stick it in for the day in The Post . |
| 15 | He does n't bring them safely home and , you know , have them all securely ti er closed in for the night in safety and security , he leaves them in the wilderness . |
| 16 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 17 | Sussex teachers thank Marjorie especially for the way in which she has always helped and stood by them , from their years of training onwards . |
| 18 | And they even arrived separately for the dinner in honour of leaders attending the European summit in Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Towards the end of 1992 , the company was successful in securing a four year inspection services contract for the Shell Southern North Sea MMSC representing a major break through for the company in this area . |
| 20 | It is also very important economically , not just for the creativity in itself . ’ |
| 21 | As was pointed out earlier , in Chapter 5 , this crime has consequences for mankind as a whole , and not just for the individual in relationship to their own father . |
| 22 | The druidical temple which Johnson saw would have proved extremely difficult for me to find , were it not for the presence in Strichen of one of the most useful guiding systems on earth — a group of local schoolboys idling on their bicycles . |
| 23 | A similar decision would have come from the White House by now were it not for the delay in finding a defence secretary . |
| 24 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 25 | Were it not for the material in the reports of Hansard to which your Lordships have been referred , I , too , would still be of that view , for although I recognise that in popular parlance with provision to one individual of a service which is , in any event , being provided for reward to many others may be said to cost the provider little or nothing , ‘ cost ’ in accountancy terms is merely a computation of outgoing expenditure without reference to receipts . |
| 26 | Remember that what your reader wants is not all the facts that a real-life situation would involve but only what I call the " fiction-facts ' , those pieces of information that are necessary not for the situation in the real world you might be describing but for the story you are telling . |
| 27 | She curled on her bunk , admired her long legs , thought about desire ( not for the traveller in liqueurs ) , read part of Madame Bovary , part of Les Fleurs du Hal and all of a novel by Margery Sharp , bought on impulse at the Gare de Lyon . |
| 28 | It was reported on Jan. 3 , 1991 , that two ETA members , José Antonio López Rúiz " Kubati " , and José Miguel Latasa Guetaria " Fermín " , had been sentenced to 47 and 26 years ' imprisonment respectively for the murder in September 1986 of the amnestied ETA member María Dolores González Catarain " Yoyes " [ see p. 34825 ; for earlier conviction of Fermin see p. 37588 ] . |
| 29 | WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE , Minister of State at the Foreign Office , called yesterday for the improvement in human rights in the Soviet Union to be codified into law . |
| 30 | The smallest of the three rooms had been set aside for the officer in charge ; it had a desk , a couple of chairs , and a telephone which , allegedly , would soon be functional . |