Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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1 | Such duties derive from decisions of the Courts of Chancery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , intended to ensure that persons/trustees who held assets or provided services for the benefit of others did so in good faith and for the benefit of those they represented . |
2 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
3 | It was rough but you know it , it w it was petty things that we was in trouble for , not , nothing sin I mean we would never think of mugging anybody or vandalizing things for the sake of vandalizing . |
4 | Royal officers , under the charge of admirals , were despatched to the ports with instructions to impress or requisition vessels for the king 's use , whether this was to transport men , animals , or equipment across the sea . |
5 | A clerk may : ( i ) transfer proceedings to another court ; ( ii ) appoint a guardian ad litem or a solicitor for a child ; ( iii ) give , vary or revoke directions for the conduct of proceedings under FPCR , r14 ; ( iv ) make repeat interim care , supervision or s8 orders which are unopposed and on the same terms as previous orders ; ( v ) issue a witness summons under s97 of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 ; ( vi ) request a welfare report . |
6 | We , we kept on er making or doing repairs for the Ministry of Works for about ooh seven or eight years after the war finished , which kept a lot of men working in Galashiels when we , you know , when they were n't very sure if they could come back to their old jobs . |
7 | They admired his ability to handle an awkward bill in a café or fix lodgings for the night . |
8 | ‘ The expression ‘ mercantile agent ’ shall mean a mercantile agent having in the customary course of his business as such agent authority either to sell goods or to consign goods for the purpose of sale , or to buy goods , or to raise money on the security of goods . ’ |
9 | When visiting the house agent , bank , garage or pet shop or making plans for the wedding reception and so on , go through the events mentally first . |
10 | The term abandoned is not defined in the Act but it will clearly apply where a person caring for a child has left without indicating his intention to return or making arrangements for the child 's care in his absence . |
11 | Oh quite probably or preparing sermons for the morning |
12 | A shaikh would collect a quantum for each sa'im ( or adult male observing the fast of Ramadan ) , and give goods or cash to the family of the sick person , or contribute animals for the entertainment of visitors at a funeral . |
13 | Though if you 're being easily led try hard , or following trends for the sake of it . |
14 | Morally speaking , we have no doubt that it is ; but again reverting to our cynical sociological standpoint , we suspect that on the contrary it is often the dispelling of secrecy that causes problems for the system and exacerbates the crisis . |
15 | The Territorial 6th Battalion of The Royal Surrey Regiment originally wore a blackened Maltese Cross with the inscription : SOUTH AFRICA on the top arm and 1900–02 on the lower arm in honour of The 3rd Volunteer Battalion that contributed volunteers for the Boer War . |
16 | The Canadian analysis confirmed the findings of a recent US General Accounting Office study that found prices for the same drug to be higher in the United States than in Canada . |
17 | pads that provide connections for the servos and the power supply . |
18 | While the purpose of creating commodity organisations was neither to escape liability nor to create profits for the organisation itself , but to control dealings in the commodity for the benefit of member States , the consequence has been to deprive third parties who were dealing in good faith with the organisation of a domestic judicial remedy . |
19 | It is expected that support materials for the first clusters will be available in summer 1992 . |
20 | The key features review provides MAS with an opportunity to add value to the purchaser 's acquisition plans by identifying factors that give grounds for the purchaser to reduce both his and the vendors ' price expectations and by suggesting pragmatic solutions , based on experience , that enable the deal to proceed without leaving either side overly exposed . |
21 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
22 | Subsequent appeals to the courts by disappointed students led the federal government to devise complex formulas that fix minima for the number of students each university department must take . |
23 | And just as the MOD has chosen to let such production lines be closed down , rather than pay contractors for the cost of mothballing them , so too has it cast a cold eye on the plight of domestic defence electronics companies . |
24 | Somehow she doubted that preparing meals for the child and the husband featured very high on the agenda . |
25 | Nor did Catholics for the most part wish to be so insulated . |
26 | Learn to be things rather than do things for the sufferer . |
27 | Travel agents in England have already sold package deals for holidays that include tickets for the international matches — five-day games in Cape Town ( February 8-13 ) and Johannesburg ( February 16-21 ) and a six-game series of one-day matches ( February 23 to March 7 ) . |
28 | Chomsky 's work has also encouraged another set of assumptions in linguistics that have consequences for the models of literacy with which we are here concerned . |
29 | In 1979 ACT bought Petsoft , a company that publishes programs for the Pet Computer made by Commodore . |
30 | These young people stumbled ‘ from one nightmare into another ’ , often falling prey to drugs , prostitution , disease and despair , she told a conference in London organised by Centrepoint , a charity that runs hostels for the homeless . |