Example sentences of "[verb] for the [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 2 | Merchant princes did not forget their native towns and counties and the people there who might want for the means of providing themselves with even the most basic tools of their trade . |
| 3 | At Aberdeen Journals the restaurant is open virtually round the clock , catering for the staff at Aberdeen 's two newspapers and Press and Journal and the Evening Express . |
| 4 | The need is to change them ; to find for the means of production and provision another structure such as will of its nature avoid the dilemma with which the present dispensation ultimately confronts the country : either unacceptably high and chronic unemployment or unacceptable and uncontrollable inflation , each so operating as eventually to destabilise society to the point where the purposes of liberal democracy can no longer be entertained , let alone fulfilled . |
| 5 | The Old Testament was written for the people of Israel — the people who looked back to Jacob ( = Israel ) as their common ancestor and to Abraham as the founder of their nation . |
| 6 | If Florence Nightingale were carrying her lamp through the corridors of the National Health Service today , she would almost certainly be searching for the people in charge . |
| 7 | As it got dark 1 decided not to fish for the carp at night . |
| 8 | What do the English provide for the people of mid-Wales ? |
| 9 | And you vote for the pair of them . |
| 10 | If a Canterbury visit did occur in 1018 it may have been while Cnut and his men were waiting for the £82,500 to be handed over , as the bulk of those who received it were doubtless based in and around London . |
| 11 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |
| 12 | Several members of the European Parliament , including Mr Cot , had called for the pair to be suspended for five days with financial penalties . |
| 13 | I would not wish to underestimate the capabilities of my fellow countrymen for self-deception ; but it is difficult to believe that there can be further instalments of the saga which began for the people of Great Britain with the successful revolt of the American colonies . |
| 14 | No evidence survives for the means by which the portraits of the emperor and his court were sent around the Empire . |
| 15 | Again Moses pleads for the people at a time of crisis . |
| 16 | What they doing for the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 17 | WHAT are the local MP 's doing for the people of Northern Ireland of both sides ? |
| 18 | ‘ I have listened to you , Mr Cameron , ’ he said finally , ‘ and you have spoken for the people of Tayside . |
| 19 | This will pose particular problems for the Horizons Agency , because we rely very much on the weekly allowance for the people with special training needs , because their output in in terms of o output related funding is relative to the So our income is cutting for the people with the , who need the highest training staff ratio , in in order to succeed . |
| 20 | Situated within a tradition of sociological inquiry into working-class attitudes and behaviour , it is a theoretically sophisticated attempt to account for the dynamics of political change in a particular locality . |
| 21 | All current applications relating to XH558 ( they closed on July 31 ) were treated as ‘ expressions of interest ’ and that the ‘ most suitable ’ of these would then be invited to tender for the aircraft in a two-stage operation . |
| 22 | He emerged two minutes later with a bulky small man , and the Land Rover turned on to the Cambridge road , making for the headquarters of the regional crime squad . |
| 23 | In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle . |
| 24 | Starting from July 8 , a repeat showing for the series of six half-hour programmes in which Geoff Hamilton shows how growing fruits and vegetables can give you an attractive as well as productive garden . |
| 25 | I think there are many purposes that the County Farms should have , and we need to look at what is the best value financially , that we can obtain for the people of Wiltshire , so when everybody talks about they 'd like their country schools maintained , they 'd like this that or the other bought , they 'd like Corsham station purchased , we could buy it easily if we sold a County Farm could n't we ? |
| 26 | oh yes , I , I need a that has to be signed for the people in er Norwich , okay , yes , so , you want a F P , F P and |
| 27 | He spoke for the people of Neath and west Glamorgan , as he always does . |
| 28 | Love for the people around her . |
| 29 | Special thanks too Gordon for sharing the whole weekend with us , and I ask you on his behalf to pray for the people of Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | It is now time to ask for the fish to be bagged , but do n't let the dealer seal the bag and assume your purchase . |