Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 2 | A joint venture between English Nature and London Zoo 's Invertebrate Conservation team has resulted in Britain 's most endangered bush cricket , the wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) being successfully reared in captivity for the first time . |
| 3 | Deng was reported to have been particularly incensed by an attack on the country 's five special economic zones ( SEZs ) , widely regarded as showcases for the reformist line . |
| 4 | Those speakers whose ties are weakest are those who approximate least closely to vernacular norms , and are most exposed to pressures for change originating from outside the network . |
| 5 | Prison Department divisions were widely criticized by governors for appearing to operate in isolation , each pursuing their own areas of interest without regard to the priorities of other divisions and establishment needs . |
| 6 | Fifteen years later , Ceauşescu 's emphasis on systematization left little place in Romania for folk-customs and the traditional way of life outside museums . |
| 7 | Despite the labour shortage , employers have skilfully staved off demands for big wage increases , helped by sensational talk in the media of an ‘ economic crisis ’ . |
| 8 | The water authorities , which are widely blamed in Britain for raising water rates , are wrestling with a timebomb , inherited from local councils in 1974 . |
| 9 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 10 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 11 | ‘ We want to see it properly regulated with guidelines for doctors . ’ |
| 12 | Actor Bill Roache , alias Ken Barlow , added : ‘ The cast is all filled with admiration for the way they sustain the standards of our scripts . ’ |
| 13 | Nothing daunted , Havelock Wilson , having just returned from his foreign travels , accompanied by Tom Mann , recently released from gaol following a term of imprisonment for inciting troops to mutiny , set off to visit four or five provincial ports , not only to appeal for funds for the London men , but also to persuade workers at these ports to join in and make the strike a national one . |
| 14 | well I only lived in London for about six months . |
| 15 | ‘ We are highly regarded in Japan for our technical quality and scientific approach , but we still have some way to go . ’ |
| 16 | Now we 're doing a little bit of reversion and it is much regret by God for five years I have negotiated budgets with the Labour group against intense opposition to Conservatives and central government to improve the services in Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | In a climate entirely dominated by Tit for Tat , Suspicious Tit for Tat does not prosper , because its initial defection triggers an unbroken run of mutual recrimination . |
| 18 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 19 | These are hours when you know you need to be somewhere on time — so build in margins for travel . |
| 20 | In each of these appeals it has been rightly accepted by counsel for the contemnor that the hearing below of the committal application was impeccable , that the sentence imposed for the contempts of court found proved can not be criticised and the committal order properly specified each of the contempts for which the contemnor had been sentenced . |
| 21 | The details of this illness remain obscure , but in 1693 Newton became sufficiently disturbed in mind for rumours of his insanity to gain widespread acceptance . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a long wait to September for me . |
| 23 | It should be pointed out that , because the employing firms are themselves not perfectly competitive but possess some monopoly power , the union 's actions will not necessarily result in losses for the firms involved ; however , it will of course reduce their profits and result in a redistribution of income from profit-earners to wage-earners . |
| 24 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 25 | The narrator of the tale is made a rhetorician , apostrophizing both his audience : and one of his characters : It has been pointed out that a skilled mastery of the " idiom of popular poetry " , embodied in the witty appropriation of familiar poetic epithets such as hende , jolif and gent , which are used of Nicholas , Absolon and Alison respectively , is not simply a characteristic of Chaucerian style , but is especially exploited by Chaucer for this one tale . |
| 26 | Captivated by Christ and his love she ‘ was greatly moved with love for my fellow Christians that they might know and see what I was seeing , for I wanted to cheer them too ’ . |
| 27 | He lost the first frame quite easily but when Wattana had made 42 in the second , the 23-year-old Thai tried an ambitious plant which only let in Hendry for a clearance of 96 . |
| 28 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element ( post , pp. 702H — 703A , 705B ) . |
| 29 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element . |
| 30 | Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company . |