Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |
| 2 | The provision of musical instruments in church should not be seen as solely for the accompaniment and embellishment of singing , but also for solo and ensemble playing before , during or after a service . |
| 3 | He called his acceptance of human sexuality and respect for the female energy Red Thread Zen , acknowledging that life itself would not exist if not for the umbilical cord that connects us to the feminine . |
| 4 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 5 | The whole book is worth buying if only for the fourteenth-century teddy bear and cuddly elephant in colour in plate 27 . |
| 6 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |