Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because half of the Library 's budget represents payment in advance for subscriptions for the following year , it is extremely difficult to make savings in the current year when financial pressures are exerted . |
| 2 | In our chapter on literature and appendix 6 we describe ways of bringing literature to life for pupils of all abilities . |
| 3 | Therefore it is understandable that he won a commission at the turn of the century from a recently formed Board of Agriculture for 200 portraits of representative breeds . |
| 4 | Commentators are also pressing for a staggered implementation , with companies being allowed to report progress on compliance for a given period of time . |
| 5 | On Oct. 9 , 1989 , the then Economy Minister , Néstor Rapanelli , signed a decree allowing freedom of action for foreign companies to buy into Argentina without prior government approval ; however , areas such as the media were to remain closed to foreign investment . |
| 6 | A report from Israel on June 23 said that the remaining Ethiopian Jews were to emigrate on commercial flights , following the interim government 's decree ( on June 21 ) allowing freedom of movement for all citizens . |
| 7 | The good news for NeXT Computer Inc is that WordPerfect Corp plans to include support for NeXTstep for Intel Corp processors in the upcoming interim release of WordPerfect 1.0.1 for NeXT , the bad news is that Cable & Wireless Plc alumnus Peter van Cuylenburg is resigning as president and chief operating officer of NeXT , just one year after he joined the company — ‘ Now that NeXT is becoming a software company , NeXT and van Cuylenburg mutually agreed that the restructured 200-person company no longer requires both a chief executive and a president and chief operating officer , ’ NeXT said in a statement . |
| 8 | We lived side by side for many years , fretting at what was wrong with the equation we had invented . |
| 9 | The bishop followed up this preliminary scorching with a promise of eternal fire for the abbot of Glastonbury , upon whom he pronounced sentence of excommunication for the sin of damaging his property . |
| 10 | The Government provide grant in aid for the British Academy to support postgraduate research in the humanities and social sciences . |
| 11 | The interest rate subsidy sometimes involved deferral of repayment for 15 years . |
| 12 | Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July . |
| 13 | While Stavrogin never gets to see Tikhon , the immediate future holds murder in store for Shatov . |
| 14 | Authorities exceeding their target incurred a penalty which involved loss of grant for each additional pound of expenditure per head of population above target . |
| 15 | In return for meeting these standards the exchange has insulation from liability for negligence to specific persons . |
| 16 | The term ‘ reward ’ covers receipt of money for a past favour even if there was no prior arrangement or agreement . |
| 17 | The idea is to secure peace of mind for the elderly whose greatest worry is fear of attack . |
| 18 | The following cases were dealt with by Northallerton magistrates : Alan Robert Lazenby , 22 , of Knotto Bottom Road , Northallerton , was convicted of entering building and stealing property valued at £824 , entering a storage container and stealing property valued at £350 , dishonestly attempting to obtain £989.46 worth of goods by deception , dishonestly obtaining goods valued at £77 by deception , driving a van while disqualified and using a van without insurance , without a test certificate , driving while disqualified , failing to provide specimen of blood for analysis , driving car recklessly , using car with a defective tyre , with a defective braking system , failing to report an accident , failing to stop after an accident , failing to stop when required by PC , using a car without insurance ; 15 months imprisonment , licence endorsed , six points , disqualified for three years . |
| 19 | The Security Service , on the other hand , argued that violent demonstrations which threatened public order could only benefit political extremism in general , as it provided incentive for recruitment for both fascists and communists . |
| 20 | Legal safeguards are necessary to protect their money and property and a way should be found to provide security of tenure for dependent older people in residential care . |
| 21 | He had succeeded Profumo as MP for Stratford-upon-Avon in 1963 . |
| 22 | In the US system these networks appear as ‘ iron triangles ’ , where special interests work in a unified way with Congressional committees and relevant federal agencies to skew policy towards solicitude for their concerns . |
| 23 | An early breakthrough saw the end of opener Hinks and when Dean Hodgson was trapped lbw by Sladdin for 38 . |
| 24 | Sir John Pope Hennessy , an Irish adventurer , successfully claimed immunity from arrest for the recovery of the huge debts he accumulated while the Member for King 's County in the 1860s . |
| 25 | Mr Kenneth Baker probably wisely turned down the offer of becoming Secretary of State for Wales but it was a serious proposition . |
| 26 | The overbearing sophistication of conceptualism and minimalism did not guarantee success in art for anyone . |
| 27 | Grave food shortages in the north led the principal Soviet representative , General Shtikov , to request rice in return for coal being supplied to the south . |
| 28 | The populace has deferred to the independent authority of government and to those who occupy government in return for the satisfaction of expectations . |
| 29 | Editor STEVE WINDSOR and writer IAN LUCAS set up a basic tank for the beginner , step-by-step , and add their own tips to provide food for thought for the more experienced fishkeeper . |
| 30 | Resource decentralisation is practised in the Kent Community Care Scheme which attempts to provide care at home for frail elderly people as a means of avoiding institutional care . |