Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 2 | It is likely , therefore , that on a major route to the north he was on a duty connected with road-works or perhaps travel arrangements for the governor . |
| 3 | The other concurrent development was the growing and irrepressible conviction that the inhabitants of India would claim and must sooner or later obtain responsibility for their own government . |
| 4 | Even at the time it seemed to me that it was pointless to be vindictive or even to allot responsibility for such happenings . |
| 5 | If they are worried about the possibility of aggression in the visit they must tell their supervisor of their expected time of return or alternatively make arrangements for telephoning the office by a specific time . |
| 6 | Substitution of new materials for existing ones , increased recycling or simply reduced demand for materials due to technical innovations could all make a nonsense of predictions that the world may run short of key metals . |
| 7 | I had only once or twice done jobs for high SenFed aristocrats or , for royalty . |
| 8 | Second , when prayer is seen as a conversation with a very dear friend , we begin to understand prayer as far , far more than just asking God for a hand-out . |
| 9 | An emergency resolution was passed which urged the government to target criminal justice resources into preventative programmes rather than just extending custody for young offenders . |
| 10 | We need to develop techniques to allow tourists to see animals and plants , without destroying them ; to devise systems of farming that deliberately create opportunities for wildlife , and to design our cities with wildlife in mind . |
| 11 | Last year was no disaster she placed sixth over 200 metres at the World Student Games and was a member of Britain 's silver medal winning 4 x 100 metres relay team but she will have to run faster than ever to earn selection for Barcelona . |
| 12 | Mr Hattersley said during the debate that he and Neil Kinnock were more determined than ever to resist pressure for Labour to back PR , because voters would suspect that the party lacked confidence in its ability to win under the present system . |
| 13 | In Egypt , the growing reliance on huge imports of cheap grain from the United States has made it uneconomical for local farmers to grow grain , and large tracts of land that once grew food for local consumption now grow strawberries , luxury vegetables and other cash crops for export ( see Steif , 1989 ) . |
| 14 | A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s . |
| 15 | The committee headed by Dame Gillian Brown held a Literary Lunch in honour of Penelope Fitzgerald a fascinating occasion that also raised £2000 for the Appeal . |
| 16 | In this case , the financial reports are imposing norms rather than passively providing information for users ' benefit . |
| 17 | Stockbrokers never more than now lack enthusiasm for the small client . |
| 18 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 19 | The fact that the donor is better off , because the recipient demands more of the good , makes a grant that changes prices better than one that simply changes income for the donee . |
| 20 | It is concluded that previously reported values for trace metals in gastric juice have been incorrect and that the very low amounts secreted in the gastric juice will not interfere with the absorption of trace metals from the diet . |
| 21 | When designing your garden , plan to include shrubs like pyracantha and Berberis darwinii that give flowers all year round and thereby provide food for wildlife . |
| 22 | Should we look to it for a pool of inventive talent that actively embodied novelty in its products , and thereby provided pressure for technical change among its customers ; or rather , for provision of engineering skills that responded passively to the demands made upon it by the inventiveness of its clients consumer industries and civil engineers ? |
| 23 | The smaller portable artefact , by contrast , lends itself to being exported to areas outside of its site of discovery , and thereby provides evidence for more abstract legiti-mations ; for example , the claim by colonial governments to represent the historical legacy of a sequence of great accomplishments is subsumed and given meaning by the concept of civilization . |
| 24 | The 95 minute work , which is a collaboration between the 49-year-old rock star and the renowned American conductor and composer Carl Davis , is a richly melodic and lavishly orchestrated piece for symphony orchestra , choir and four soloists . |
| 25 | Appointed to the politburo and then made founding editor of the theoretical journal Hong Qi ( 'Red Flag' ) in 1958 , Chen wrote numerous articles attacking ‘ revisionism ’ and supporting Mao 's disastrous ‘ Great Leap Forward ’ , an ill-conceived and brutally executed drive for rapid industrialisation and rural collectivisation now blamed for the deaths of more than 15 million people . |
| 26 | The child needs to be motivated and so receiving rewards for going to the lavatory when reminded or for staying dry can be an incentive for the younger child . |
| 27 | The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services . |
| 28 | ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses . |
| 29 | The best that could be achieved in western Europe was a dispersed defensive strategy which would bog down an offensive , in case of war , and so give time for negotiation . |
| 30 | On a political level , these schemes help to maintain the status quo , because they satisfy some of the minimum housing needs of the poor and so reduce pressure for radical reforms . |