Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [coord] for the " in BNC.

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1 In the old days the surgeon made an incision in the lower portion of the tummy and reached the enlarged gland that way , but before the coming of antibiotics it was quite common for infections to develop or for the prostate to turn cancerous .
2 Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson said that it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House of Commons to decide whether such privilege has been infringed .
3 Although in the past the courts and the House of Commons both claimed the exclusive right to determine whether or not a privilege existed , it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House to decide whether such privilege has been infringed : see Erskine May on Parliamentary Practice , 21st ed. ( 1989 ) , pp. 147–160 .
4 Conscious that she must make the most of these last weeks , and grateful for all the happiness and love which she had enjoyed in childhood , she was nevertheless eager for the days to pass and for the news to come that João had arrived from Lisbon to collect his bride .
5 Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things .
6 It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour .
7 Furthermore , the political implication of becoming an observing participant in an institution such as the police is immense , both for the group studied and for the ethnographer .
8 The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender .
9 She swallowed hard and waited for the ringing in her head to clear and for the room to steady once more , then , summoning all of her courage , she looked at him with icy contempt .
10 SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon has called for the immediate suspension of the officers involved and for the investigation to be carried out by officers from another police force .
11 Their talk and behaviour took a slightly different form from ours just as their uniforms did and for the same reason but their major premises seemed to be the same .
12 Although Winch contends that there can not be causes for the rules followed or for the intentions and motives of the actors who follow them , other philosophers disagree .
13 Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse .
14 At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest .
15 They ask for more stimulus than their children provide and for the opportunity to give expression to their other creative and intellectual drives .
16 Indeed , to the extent that any such request may represent an unjustified use of scarce resources , it would be unethical for the doctor to comply or for the patient to insist that he does so .
17 pending the receipt of prompt instructions from the bank/organisation keep its interest in the policy in force up to the full sum insured and for the same risks as were covered when the bank's/organisation 's interest was notified ( subject to the insurance not having been replaced elsewhere with the consent of consent of the bank/organisation ) .
18 You may choose a video for the subject matter covered or for the instruction in a particular technique .
19 The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve .
20 The struggle of Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill — from sec to exec — provides the perfect scenario not only for power dressing but for the enactment of many dominant-5 mythologies about women , work and social class .
21 The ‘ quality ’ of the links which had been created in the semantic net were compared for the situation in which no Definition Table existed and for the situation in which a Definition Table did exist .
22 A parents ' evening in late September or early October gives time for the class to settle and for the teacher to get to know something about the child .
23 So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship : 48 to 45.5 for Prost .
24 Using the estimates for the BP options , the hedge ratios work out as follows : therefore , for the options expiring in October we should write 1.1886 option contracts per 1000 shares held and for the options maturing in April we should write 1.9279 contracts per 1000 share held .
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