Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With ten minutes to go , Paul Whittington did well to tip the ball over the Milton bar on two occasions as Lane pressed for the equaliser . |
| 2 | Another new development for the division for 1993 , will be the introduction of electrostatic filters for industry used for the removal of fumes , dust , oil mist and micro-organisms from the atmosphere . |
| 3 | It was certainly clear , as the 1970s drew to a close , that the nationalities question was by no means destined for the historical obsolescence to which official spokesmen wished to consign it , and even Brezhnev , recommending the adoption of the 1977 Constitution , warned that it would be not just unLeninist but actually ‘ dangerous ’ if the steady convergence of the Soviet nations were artificially accelerated . |
| 4 | No partner is entitled , as of right , to a salary for work done for the partnership . |
| 5 | Independence requires , however , two things missing in Britain and America : the regular rotation of auditors ; and the banning of conflicts of interest between work done for the shareholders ( auditing ) and the increasing amount the same firms do for the managers ( consultancy ) . |
| 6 | Other African countries were vocally hostile to allowing any legal trade , which , they said , would merely provoke an upsurge in poaching since it would effectively be impossible to check the origin of products offered for the market . |
| 7 | In general , all restores would then be carried out from the optical disk , minimising the number of mounts needed for the magnetic media . |
| 8 | At the end of October the Department of Agriculture called for the elimination of all export subsidies on US agricultural produce within five years . |
| 9 | Much of the variation in the items is indeed directly related to their use , but the variability in the design of objects destined for the same function may point to socio-cultural differences . |
| 10 | New stock was of course required for the proposed Thameslink service , and Chris Green formally accepted the first Class 319 dual-voltage unit at BREL York on 2 September . |
| 11 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 12 | The king , who had returned from Flanders in February and was present in person , was asked to agree to confirm and observe the charters ; to agree that no taxes should be levied without the assent of parliament , and to appoint a council which would supervise the expenditure of money raised for the war and exercise jurisdiction over ministers . |
| 13 | The judge , asked to decide as a preliminary point when the cause of action accrued for the purposes of section 9(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 held that it arose on completion of the works required by the notices . |
| 14 | In April 1990 the ruling UDPM held a series of conferences on the issue of democracy , during which , it was reported , a number of speakers called for the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 15 | Something struck him as odd about the number of books cited for the new library . |
| 16 | A welcome addition to earlier gifts of similar works by the Directors of the Royal Blind Asylum and School , Edinburgh , was a further group of books printed for the use of the blind , in a variety of embossed and other alphabets , mainly by the two Edinburgh printers , James Gall and John Alston . |
| 17 | They all groan under the weight of books needed for the current volume . |
| 18 | A large ( 33 million word ) corpus was taken and sets of ten nearest neighbours of words derived for the thousand most common words in the corpus . |
| 19 | The contingent cause of the crisis is not of great significance , a tale of possible sabotage , possible negligence regarding the transport of shells destined for the battle front in late 1915 . |
| 20 | The embassy said that US$28,000,000 of funds earmarked for the country for 1992 would be withheld until Kenya made political and economic changes [ see p. 38563 for World Bank decision to withhold aid ] . |
| 21 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
| 22 | If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 . |
| 23 | Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley 's decision to abide by European Commission rules on the distribution of regional aid from Brussels immediately unlocked £18.9m of investment earmarked for the stricken former coalfield communities of Durham , Tyne and Wear , and Northumberland . |
| 24 | This order brings to 13 the number of type 23 frigates ordered since 1984 , and the number of vessels ordered for the Royal Navy since 1979 to 71 . |
| 25 | The time that the candidate has been registered as a supervised postgraduate student will normally count towards the period of study prescribed for the degree . |
| 26 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |
| 27 | Two drug smugglers with some 360 kg of cocaine bound for the United States from Colombia had made a refuelling stop at Tlalixcoyan airstrip in south-east Mexico . |
| 28 | Which is more than can be said for the thousands of turkeys destined for the Christmas dinner table . |
| 29 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 30 | There is no reason why Tanzania should not combine an examination , which is based on the things we teach , with a teacher and pupil assessment of work done for the school and community . |