Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 2 | The base for indexing is derived from the RPI of June 1984 and is ( after adjustment to allow for the rebased RPI ) 89.2 . |
| 3 | It is in the erm statement of faith to substitute for the phrase by his death on the cross the words he died on the cross for the sins of the world . |
| 4 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 5 | Beto is very proud , and I think justifiably so , that in the early 1960s he asked the Texas legislature at every session for a considerable amount of money to build for the future , and received it . |
| 6 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 7 | Public disorder incidents are frequently transitory and fleeting events ; the constable has to make quick decisions as to what course of action to adopt for the best . |
| 8 | Jackson may well have the spirit of punk to blame for the misunderstanding . |
| 9 | In Chapter 14 we saw that risky activities on average will need to earn a higher rate of return to compensate for the higher risks involved . |
| 10 | It 's now up to the country of origin to vouch for the health of the animals . |
| 11 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 12 | Simmel effectively extends Marx 's concept of rupture to account for the inability of modern individuals to recognize themselves in the world of goods . |
| 13 | FEARS were expressed last night that Cheshire County Council could be £10m short of cash to care for the elderly . |
| 14 | In 1891 she moved to Ambleside and started the House of Education to prepare for the teaching and care of children . |
| 15 | A canal requires the supply of water to allow for the losses caused by : — |
| 16 | Leading 10-8 and within a frame of the title , Wattana had the sublime confidence of youth to go for the $100,000 jackpot prize on offer for a 147 , choosing reds more suitable for continuing the red-black sequence than those which offered maximum certainty of winning the title-clinching frame . |
| 17 | Having consulted the therapists about the best type of activity to choose for the patient , you may be able to work out how best to interest and amuse the patient through your knowledge of what he enjoyed doing before his stroke or head injury . |
| 18 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 19 | The input of energy to compensate for the dissipation must be provided by the only remaining term , . |
| 20 | These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business . |
| 21 | Even in that situation you would probably be rescued by a passing cruise ship , on board which they would stuff you endlessly with food to compensate for the boredom of the interminable view of the sea . |
| 22 | Yet how many people this Christmas will be going into debt to pay for the festive season ? |
| 23 | Er we do hold the view that the sixty hectares is sufficient on the on the basis that there is a degree of flexibility within the structure plan provision , er and that er flexibility should allow us erm in special circumstances for example to compensate for the loss of existing major employment erm sites , erm to make additional provision over and above that . |
| 24 | We have a steady flow of new developments in hand to compensate for the declining production from our older North Sea fields , notably Forties ( BP : 83.1% ) and Clyde ( BP : 51% ) . |
| 25 | Such changes are made in English to account for the notion more than one and for the notion meaning approximately in the past in verbs . |
| 26 | All small mammal concentrations in the fossil record must be regarded as potential predator assemblages , and the activities of predators must be investigated in order to allow for the predator biases inevitably present in the faunas . |
| 27 | They cover mainly the period since 1950 in order to allow for the full return to peacetime economic conditions which occurred largely during the reconstruction period after 1945 . |
| 28 | The experiments were performed in order to test for the following experimental hypotheses . |
| 29 | This value was compared with recall values for early serial positions in order to test for the primacy effect . |
| 30 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |