Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 2 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 3 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 4 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |
| 5 | It is also crucial to ask whether the media are able to cope with this growth in information and whether they can do anything to counter the efforts of governments to manipulate it for their own ends . |
| 6 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 7 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 8 | I meant to pop the enclosed in a drawer of the chest of drawers to thank you for its removal — better late than never , and the card early to save a stamp . |
| 9 | There is also frequent movement as groups of children rearrange themselves for some fresh topic or activity . |
| 10 | On Tuesday deliveries of the planings began , and for the rest of the week two of us , both volunteers , drove dumper trucks to deposit the material in small piles , which the bulldozer later smoothed out ( driving dumper trucks proved a popular occupation — there was no shortage of helpers to relieve us for breaks . |
| 11 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 12 | With citizens arming themselves for protection , police claim more than 10,000 violent crimes have been committed with stolen weapons . |
| 13 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 14 | one who steals bodies from cemeteries to sell them for dissection , like Jerry Cruncher in TTC . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State is anxious to concentrate on rebates to do something for those who will by hit be the property tax , but the Minister has scorned property taxes and is determined to weight the tax in favour of the better-off . |
| 16 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 17 | After more than five years of talks , outstanding difficulties centred on ( i ) whether it could be acceptable under GATT rules for the EC to make direct payments to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies ( a key part of plans to reform the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy ) ; ( ii ) the volume of EC grain exports ; and ( iii ) EC demands for limits on US exports of cereal substitutes to the EC . |
| 18 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 19 | Some firms insist on partners submitting themselves for regular medical examinations after reaching a certain age and for disclosure of the results to all partners . |
| 20 | In Darcy 's Utopia each man will attempt to read the mind of God and not rely on others to do it for him . |
| 21 | If not , let us put our own house in order and not wait for others to do it for us . |
| 22 | It 's also a perfect place for students to prepare themselves for the new grade-level Trinity College Of Music Pop Exams , since the Guitar School is the new local exam centre ! |
| 23 | Home Economics should not lose its status as a subject , because the knowledge attained by pupils prepares them for life . |