Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Many husbands took responsibility for saving for such major items of expenditure as furniture or even boots out of the money they kept back for themselves .
2 Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second .
3 Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) .
4 It is far too weighty and achieved a piece of writing for any such hasty response .
5 What is new , however , as the National Curriculum comes into effect , is the impossibility of providing for these areas of learning within discrete subject entitlements .
6 In the book , author Suzi Leather says it is not ignorance that forces many families to cut their food bills , but the impossibility of paying for all essentials out of ‘ woefully inadequate ’ state benefits .
7 Heaven knows who it was who set their mind on heading for that pointy wee soul but , like most hill-walkers , once a route is planned we would sooner see the laws of physics change before our itinerary did .
8 If you look at the News item regarding Hoof Branding in the September issue you will see that I recommended any form of security marking and that hoof branding was suggested as an alternative to freezebranding for those who choose not to freezebrand their horses .
9 The use of the same subjects both when shadowing was and was not involved may also have altered this result by accounting for any individual anomalies .
10 Even the local vicar was n't immune , the Rev. Bartley Trimble who was vicar of Halling for many years was known as " Baggy " .
11 She is presently training in the hope of qualifying for this year 's British Olympic squad and needs help with the costs .
12 The schools of the established Church banned the teaching of writing for this kind of reason as much as the Methodists did for sabbatarian ones .
13 But changes in its relative abundance may not give an entirely accurate picture of population trends for any species , so the number of contacts per hour of counting for each species is added as an individual measure of abundance .
14 Indeed , they were unable to get to the heart of providing for those who did not work regularly and hence could not pay regular rent or , often , any rent at all .
15 In the course of acting for each of their principals , estate agents will acquire information confidential to that principal .
16 Having found a set of words from the lexicon which may be the correct spelling of an identified misspelling , common correction techniques compute an index of matching for each candidate word .
17 As the environmental lobby has gained increasing influence over rural planning policies , so the dilemma between the requirement of maintaining an attractive village landscape and the provision of housing for those in need has become more acute .
18 And that included the experience of caddying for some of the greats when they came to St Andrews , such as Henry Cotton and Flory Van Donck .
19 Our educators present a personal message , each one having had experience of caring for those dying with AIDS at home .
20 This is the crux of planning for any UK multinational .
21 The latter document re-emphasized the need for a national curriculum framework and for the delineation of a common core of learning for all pupils .
22 As well as this he mentions the issue of settling for half , ‘ Now we settle for half , and I like it better . ’
23 In reading the bundle of documents relating to this appeal , both before , during and since the hearing before me , I have wondered whether attention was not focused almost as much on the father 's wish to obtain an order for costs against the local authority as upon the important question of making for these children the best decision that was available .
24 Yet family and friends may well need help in planning for such an admission ; this way the older person does not feel rejected , but is admitted taking a social network of support with them , of people who will visit regularly , and not feel guilty ( see Chapter 6 ) .
25 Bosses at Reads in Bootle called in the liquidator after battling for more than a year against cash flow problems .
26 World Vision hope to provide some sort of schooling for these youngsters .
27 Without sort of looking for some , for a phrase or whatever , I 'm more or less , I 'm not too bad at erm , well
28 His voice was brusque as he said , ‘ If you girls will excuse me I 'll return to my job of preparing for this afternoon 's horse trek . ’
29 Skipping an Ipswich rink , Roy Cutts , who had achieved a rare distinction of qualifying for all four championships — singles , pairs , triples and fours — went out in the first round of the fours to Egham of Surrey .
30 It was the task of the spirit to resist complicity , even to the point of burning for this belief — this knowledge — for it was , of course , entirely unacceptable to orthodox Christianity .
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