Example sentences of "[conj] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise .
2 Although there was a reduction in mental hospital beds of 17 per cent between 1955 and 1975 , this hardly bears comparison with the trend in the USA where for the corresponding period the reduction was 66 per cent .
3 But it would probably be a mistake to draw any such sweeping conclusion , either for the short or for the long term .
4 But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world .
5 Those who got selected either for constituencies , or for the Central Office list when it was established in the 1950s , tended to be those whom old buffers in the party already had a pretty good idea about , because they knew their fathers , their regiments or their schools .
6 The recipient Party further undertakes to the supplying Party that it will not during that period use the same except in or for the said purposes .
7 ‘ Ad hoc ’ is a Latin phrase meaning ‘ to that ’ ; in other words these bodies were appointed to devote their activities ‘ to that ’ purpose , or for the specific purpose for which they were appointed .
8 Or for the total luxury of the Hotel Golden Tulip St. Honore , three nights including flights at an unbelievable £292 .
9 And we 've written back that we might get money from but can we use it for I E buying chairs and other things or for the general welfare .
10 Natural science is happy to take a spectator 's view of the workings of nature , and any retreat , as in quantum theory in physics or for the philosophical reasons in the last chapter , is reluctant .
11 The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running .
12 All of these further contributed to the post land reform potential o of the law set to maintain and increase its income , or for the Communist Party to tax .
13 It is important to know what help is forthcoming for you or for the elderly person for whom you are caring .
14 The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve .
15 It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity .
16 And should the conditions about availability of , or taking of , food be national or for the local Licensing Justices to attach as appropriate when granting the Children 's Certificate ?
17 For example , something may be written for the wedding of a friend , or for the local organist to play .
18 Examples include : the automatic generation of weather forecasts by a computer communicating with satellites , the selection of lists of random numbers for a competition or for the Premium Bond draw , programs which produce artistic designs or music automatically , being based upon a set of rules built into the program , a program designed to simulate some particular environment , such as climate , monetary systems , battle scenarios , etc .
19 In most instances these special schools for visually handicapped pupils are for children of primary school age or for the full school age-range and they have in general terms a regional catchment .
20 The system can be searched by author , title or pupils 's name , as seen with LIBRAFILE above and overdues can be produced for a pupil , a class or for the whole school .
21 One of the decisions you have to make is whether to have the entertainer for just an entertainment slot or for the whole party .
22 For someone like Anderson — or for the Tory activists Simpson heard chanting ‘ Privatise the BBC ’ outside Central Office — the case for dismemberment is clear .
23 Provided that an applicant for the renewal of a licence or for the permanent transfer of a licence need not attend or be represented unless the applicant has been cited by the board to attend the meeting .
24 Elsewhere , intelligent use of colour is responsible for the blue shading which fills out me of the canthari surrounding the Tyche medallion at Brantingham , Humbs. , or for the red shadow which falls across the shoulder and left cheek of Venus , in the Kingscote mosaic .
25 Given that there is no physical reason for either the strong antibiasing ( ) required on all scales , or for the non-zero value of , we do not consider this option further ( but see ref. 35 for an alternative view ) .
26 It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery .
27 Halfway through interviewing candidates is no time for governor discord or financial disagreements to surface , or for the true needs of the school to be hastily compromised .
28 She showed no concern for her own situation , or for the throbbing pain .
29 We hasten to add that we adopt the above procedure without any deep reverence for psychiatric classification as such or for the psychiatric form of describing the person .
30 This picture , except for the Canadian crew , was an extremely unpleasant experience . ’
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