Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sold a Holbein masterpiece earlier this year for £10million to pay for the upkeep of his estate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Automatic prescan of data follows for the summary screen , and calculations can be made on a range . |
| 4 | Conservatives have set a target of £20,000 to raise for the General Election campaign . |
| 5 | The dispositive contents of the will include : ( i ) pecuniary legacies of £1,000 each to the two executors , and of £2,000 to a Mr. Clarke , the deceased 's stockbroker ; ( ii ) provision for 150B , High Street and its contents to be retained to provide a residence during their respective lifetimes of two ladies , Mrs. Donelly and Mrs. Willett ; ( iii ) a settled legacy of £10,000 to provide for the maintenance of 150B , High Street during the residence there of the two ladies ; ( iv ) a settled legacy of £2,000 for a specified animal charity ; and ( v ) a gift of residue in equal shares to two specified charities . |
| 6 | Last year the company lost £30,000 worth of fish bound for the Spanish market when the consignment was blocked for three days outside Toulouse by French lorry drivers protesting about restrictions on the hours they could drive . |
| 7 | Hence the figure of 110.97p calculated for the last published results is not strictly comparable with that ( 131.2p ) calculated for the half-yearly figures . |
| 8 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 9 | Only one person remarkably said that Oxford United would win by one goal to nil , I think loads of people go for the three ones or the four ones or things like that . |
| 10 | If we get the right balance and range of people working for the BBC it will change and broaden the agenda of our programmes . |
| 11 | Maths tuition can be tailored to the needs of people budgeting for the family groceries , learning to measure and switching over to metrication or simply those wanting to be able to help their children with maths homework . |
| 12 | To her surprise the small room of the post office was full of people waiting for the evening mail . |
| 13 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |
| 14 | He also states that the agreements made with Sonnabend clients regarding the purchase of works destined for the May 1991 show were written out after he had notified Sonnabend that he was leaving them . |
| 15 | And of course there was the small matter of £2,000 raised for the Guide Dogs for the Blind to comfort the eight shattered darts players . |
| 16 | Offers in region of £900,000 invited for the business and net assets . |
| 17 | Earnings per share fell from 27.3p to 15.8p , but BG will pay a total dividend of 14.2p for last year , against 10.25p paid for the nine-month trading period to the end of 1991 . |
| 18 | Afterwards , about five , when the club started to fill up with people arriving for the daily hockey and cricket matches , played always , by personal decree of the Consul-General , in the cool of the evening , he returned to his office . |
| 19 | Top cash are on offer to professional and amateur players with £150 added for the highest break in the competition by bookmaker Joe Suckling . |
| 20 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 21 | He talks about people going for the trolley when the smoke comes out of a house . |
| 22 | Two men were standing in Plashet Park handing out Anti-Nazi League placards to people arriving for the march . |
| 23 | … exclusively to works written for the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of a nature calculated to shock the common feelings of decency in a well-regulated mind . |
| 24 | This , he says , will be increased to £40m to allow for the insulation of 250,000 low income homes over the next year . |
| 25 | All of the contradiction comes because when the citizens charter was announced and the Prime Minister increased the costs of the Cabinet Office by £800,000 to pay for the work to be done on it , bringing the cost of the Cabinet Office to £22.5 million , it was announced that the PA consultancy report had been commissioned . |