Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you should , allowances should be at at least support you in that and also from those allowances other resources that provide for research etcetera for the members . |
| 2 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 3 | and so you know looking back on it , was all rather funny but erm , it was n't at the time of course particularly for the children and erm mothers . |
| 4 | More than a billion for the A90 complex , and he had heard , and he believed it , that there was £35 million of money just for the new fencing and perimeter security equipment … money for that , money no object for the bloody contractors . |
| 5 | There are now almost a dozen different varieties of these cream cheeses , and the Gervais factory , at Ferrières , absorbs something like 50,000 gallons of milk daily for the demi-sel and other fresh cheeses . |
| 6 | She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door . |
| 7 | Zuckerman 's proposal of marriage to Maria in The Counterlife is an indication of its importance , and of the importance of escape both for the tradition and for the unsatisfiable Roth . |
| 8 | He looked at the hillside across the river , where the moving masses had halted , still just out of range even for the most expert , to redress their line . |
| 9 | There was no certainty of work even for the most skilled : during the slump of 1857–8 the number of workers in the Berlin engineering industry fell by almost a third . |
| 10 | He made the effort to say something pleasant to his wife and they drank a glass of wine together for the first time in weeks . |
| 11 | Perhaps the hope-association was as old as the star one ; perhaps ‘ Earendel ’ had contained a presentiment of salvation even for the old heroes ( like Beowulf ) who lived before Christianity was brought to them . |
| 12 | With a cable break close to the ground there is always plenty of room ahead for the landing . |
| 13 | There was plenty of competition too for the Shildon operation before it secured the paint contract . |
| 14 | The reason for their use is that they make the task of interpretation easier for the reader . |
| 15 | Risk estimates certainly appear to be relatively malleable , there is evidence that increasing the availability in memory of risk-related information alters people 's subsequent assessments of risk both for the overall frequency of lethal events ( Lichtenstein et al. |
| 16 | There is some sort of lesson there for the autograph collector , who need not despair if the great names are beyond his aspirations and his purse . |
| 17 | This is because a major aim of public sector housing policy has been to provide a good standard of accommodation usually for the less well-to-do who can not or do not wish to buy their own homes . |
| 18 | The idea of training hard for the jump was soon shelved and the day of reckoning drew nearer . |
| 19 | It had to be left long with just a little braid on the top and twisted underneath with a little bit of straw through for the summer . |
| 20 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 21 | This situation meant freedom of expression only for the wealthy and already powerful . |
| 22 | The only area in which it loses out to the deeper-bodied F-model is on sheer projection , and I could well imagine some players foregoing that extra bit of welly just for the comfort and convenience of the LSE 's thin body . |
| 23 | He tried to help matters by calling through his cardboard megaphone for — ‘ the best of order there for the speaker ’ . |
| 24 | Influenced by a learned correspondent , Girolamo Mei , a philologist and student of ancient Greek music and drama who rightly believed Greek music to have been monodic ( but seemingly supplied Galilei with thirteenth-century Byzantine melodies to Mesomedes ' hymns under the impression that they were ancient ) , Galilei argued that the polyphonic ‘ music of today is not of great value for expressing the passions of the mind by means of words , but is of value merely for the wind and stringed instruments , from which the ear … desires nothing but the sweet enjoyment of the variety of their harmonies … |
| 25 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 26 | But er it 's just a matter of time now for the discolouration to fade a bit , and things like that , that 's mainly the worst that 's left . |
| 27 | have a good idea of what they were doing next , next summer or whatever , yeah right right , otherwise Edinburgh , erm everything is in place for the festival descriptions , well everything 's in place like curtain up for the Lyceum description , last weekend |
| 28 | Twenty thousand were at Foxhill Park near swindon yesterday for the British 250 cc Moto Cross Grand Prix … |
| 29 | ASL compensates by using compound signs such as TABLE/CHAIR etc. for the concept of furniture . |
| 30 | The effect of these provisions is , in our judgment , that if an account contains items of litigation costs or non-litigation costs the items can be referred to a taxing master for taxation i.e. for the taxing master to decide what amount is recoverable in respect thereof . |