Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases the money went for tickets to fund-raising parties organised for Mr Takeshita . |
| 2 | In all eight cases the diarrhoea continued for over 21 days , in five it persisted for more than three months . |
| 3 | The burden of proof of this rests upon the occupier , though in some cases the matter speaks for itself : |
| 4 | Where by the Act or the rules the time limited for doing any act is seven days or less , Saturday , Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday , Tuesday in Easter week , Bank Holidays and any other day on which the offices of the court are closed must be excluded in computing such time . |
| 5 | That is to say , we do not know how these patterns of variation function within the community : we do not know what social meanings the variation carries for in-group members . |
| 6 | LOCAL education authorities want to spend more than £1 billion on school repairs next year , three times the amount allocated for this year , the Labour Party said yesterday . |
| 7 | The first step to getting Technopolis on the road is legislation to channel into the project what few funds the government has for regional development . |
| 8 | For Catholic schools the need exists for personal and professional development of staff in the spiritual dimension with a focus on Catholic school philosophy and the ‘ ministry ’ of teaching . |
| 9 | In the last 12 months the number waiting for more than two years across the Yorkshire region dropped from more than 3,000 to just 16 . |
| 10 | All Tri-Plates are highly collectable these days , but as Hawaiian star Sol Hoopii 's famous guitar remains undiscovered and blues-player Tampa Red 's legendary gold-plated model remains just that — a legend — the ultimate collector 's Tri-Plates must be the presentation models the company made for certain employees . |
| 11 | So in addition to considering the advantages the system has for employers , we need also to examine how state policies continue to support a segmented labour market . |
| 12 | They have considered the subjects shown on the plan of an industrial system and decided what advantages the area has for each , as shown on the map . |
| 13 | AS DAY DAWNED in the remote jungle of the Venezuelan Amazonas the traveller reached for his sodden clothes and rotting boots , shook them free of invading ants and poisonous hairy caterpillars , and crawled from his smelly , fungus-covered mosquito net . |
| 14 | It is generally assumed that the rise of more widespread educational opportunities has given children of working-class parents the chance to study for the qualifications necessary to enter middle-class occupations . |
| 15 | She had forgotten about the storm and the terrors the house held for her , but when Alec closed the dining room door and the cold whispering darkness enveloped them , her fear returned . |
| 16 | In the 1890s Michael Marks , the firm 's founder , put wooden platforms behind his market stalls to keep salesgirls ' feet warm ; these days the company pays for everything from in-house dentists to local community projects . |
| 17 | These days the Glaswegian goes for consistency in the first ten places while riding as an understudy to a leader like LeMond . |
| 18 | ‘ The dead man spent two days a week travelling for the firm , taking orders and delivering goods . |
| 19 | In presenting the rationalisations and justifications a group offers for doing things as it does , we will seem to be accepting its rationalisations and justifications and accusing other parties to the transaction in the words of their opponents . |
| 20 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 21 | A survey recently conducted in the US established that the average business person spends over three hours a week searching for misplaced information . |
| 22 | Audrey said : ‘ We used to get three or four calls a night asking for Vic . ’ |
| 23 | Mrs Moir said : ‘ We used to get three or four calls a night asking for Vic . ’ |
| 24 | A new defence doctrine began to take shape at the same time : it was intended to be non-offensive in character and to give other states no reason to fear for their security , notwithstanding the immense size of Soviet armed forces and the perceptions of those forces that were entertained particularly in Europe . |
| 25 | An order requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants , who were not parties to any Euramco transaction and who did not receive anything under any Euramco transaction , to repay the investors the money paid for the Euramco shares , is , he submits , a compensatory order , not a restitutionary one . |
| 26 | If we had not given investors the chance to bid for Ballylumford and taken steps towards privatisation , that vital option would not have been made available to us . |
| 27 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 28 | For one of the first things the maltster looked for was just this : uniformity of seed in the samples that the farmer showed to him . |
| 29 | On the other hand , in the WHO collaborative studies the investigation provided for the study of the effect of spacing on both still births and abortions . |
| 30 | The provisions the Committee recommend for inclusion involve little more than a restatement of the existing common law position : |