Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 2 | ‘ Practice ’ need not be eschewed as part of higher education ; but its presence in the curriculum must be justified in terms of the opportunities it affords for the student 's critical reflection . |
| 3 | I think that is a , there is a need to look into this , it is an area where we have n't looked into at the moment , and when you consider the valuable work that our staff in the D S O organisation does , and the profit it makes for this county council , and the savings it makes for the county council , it would be sensible for us to also look into building maintenance as well . |
| 4 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 5 | The key to an understanding of relief-giving is in the functions it serves for the larger economic and political order , for relief is a secondary and supportive institution . |
| 6 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 7 | Stable prices Rapid inflation is regarded as undesirable for many reasons , not least because of the danger it poses for the stability of the economic and political system ( see Chapter 12 for further discussion ) . |
| 8 | The origin legend of the Merovingians as recorded by Fredegar is important not only for its suggestion that the family claimed to be descended from a supernatural ancestor , but also for the implications it has for the rise of the dynasty . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what responsibilities he has for the sports and arts foundation . |
| 10 | Lili , needless to remark , is unhappy : when she is in the heat of the Nile she longs for the mists of England , and vice versa . |
| 11 | In the UK it remains for the CAA to revert to a voluntary incident reporting system in place of the current mandatory one . |
| 12 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 13 | This , of course , is a popular subject : it seems particularly attractive to the poet-turned-novelist because of the scope it offers for the tremulously sensitive probing of feelings . |
| 14 | For John Lawer — three-wheeled and proud of it — being treated like a second-class motorist is the price he pays for the car he drives . |
| 15 | For John Lawer — three-wheeled and proud of it — being treated like a second-class motorist is the price he pays for the car he drives . |
| 16 | ‘ Then she shoots them in afterwards , ’ said Lili , ‘ with a special little pistol she keeps for the purpose . ’ |
| 17 | the arrangements it makes for the admission of students on to the Bar Vocational Course ; |
| 18 | the arrangements it makes for the admission of students onto the Bar Vocational Course ; . |
| 19 | Since the death of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936 , the company has been wholly owned by the Wellcome Trust , a registered charity which distributes all profits it receives for the support of medical and allied research in universities and hospitals throughout the world . |
| 20 | Professor Williams 's views on the proper scope of the crime of rape coupled with the limited role he advocates for the offence of procuring by threat suggest that he does not consider that the criminal law should be over-active in protecting the sexual autonomy of women . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what role he sees for the global environmental facility in helping developing countries with their environmental problems . |
| 22 | It still sleeps with its mother in the rudimentary nest she builds for the night but practises building nests for itself . |
| 23 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 24 | His high profile as a comedian , poet , singer and musician has a lot to do with the regular weekly poem he writes for the Weekend Guardian , recent appearances on radio in ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Loose Ends ’ and the ‘ Time Out ’ Cabaret Award , but it is in his live stage act that he can best be appreciated as an hilarious dead-pan comic . |
| 25 | The Centre is required to become self-supporting so that it is necessary to establish links with government and the business and commercial worlds and to ensure that the programs it produces for the academic community are also attractive to the commercial market-place . |
| 26 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 27 | If you would like to help , please write a letter stating the following : ’ Dear Mayor Gordon , I have heard about the work of the Buklod Centre and the programmes it runs for the hospitality women , including health education , English lessons , income-generating projects and night care for children . |
| 28 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has for the alleviation of homelessness in Scotland . |
| 30 | Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation , despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves , make him feel like pawn ? |