Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fall in pocket money received for this age group contrasts with a rise from £1.40 a week to £1.48 shown in a Halifax survey of the under-12s last month . |
| 2 | The programme selected for this experiment was an episode of Pathfinders to Venus , a series already demonstrated as the main forerunner of Doctor Who . |
| 3 | The agent selected for this task was a Spaniard called Paulus , a trusted servant of the Emperor , described as a notarius . |
| 4 | The technical term used for this cash limit is the external finance limit ( EFL ) , reflecting its rather different status . |
| 5 | the accounting policy and , if different , the funding policy whether the pension cost and provision ( or asset ) are assessed in accordance with the advice of a professionally qualified actuary and , if so , the date of the most recent actuarial valuation or later formal review used for this purpose . |
| 6 | Last night , as a tug prepared to remain on standby overnight , with a fresh refloating attempt planned for this morning , an environmental row erupted . |
| 7 | Help can be obtained at any time by pressing the function key reserved for this purpose . |
| 8 | Help can be obtained at any point during an interactive session by pressing the function key reserved for this purpose . |
| 9 | Had the employer known of the pregnancy at the date of appointment he would not have appointed the woman and the employer would also have dismissed a male employee engaged for this purpose who required a leave of absence at the same time for medical or other reasons . |
| 10 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 11 | The Brigade was probably the first youth group to emphasize the specific nature of ‘ boyhood ’ and to develop a programme and a philosophy designed for this stage of life . |
| 12 | Initially , the post had been envisaged at a lower level , but the Lords select committee pushed for this power . |
| 13 | Although this book can give you ideas , general hints and tips on how to press and arrange flowers , it is not until you really start designing pictures for yourself that you will have mastered the skill needed for this craft . |
| 14 | Actual service is effected on a corporation by using the usual English procedures ; on an individual by a process server ( in practice a county court bailiff appointed for this purpose ) leaving a copy of the process and a copy of the translation or the certificate , as the case may be , with the person to be served , or by inserting the documents through the letter-box at his address ; or in accordance with an order for substituted service . |
| 15 | The premium level needed for this purpose was not yet known . |
| 16 | The product adopted for this task was a laminated bitumen and polyethylene sheet material which demands very careful attention to the formation of joints between sheets if groundwater penetration is to be entirely excluded . |
| 17 | This serves to emphasise the relevance to the specialty of the EC directives which require ‘ Theoretical and practical instruction … supervised by the competent authorities … in a health establishment approved for this purpose … involving the personal participation of the doctor training to be a specialist in the activity and in the responsibilities of the establishments concerned . ’ |
| 18 | The heterogeneity of proliferative patterns found within the high risk population used for this study is not surprising . |
| 19 | Although the French newspapers said the accord could be signed next Tuesday , the SGS-Thomson spokeswoman told Reuter that the company had no announcement planned for this week . |
| 20 | However , with further events of a similar nature planned for this year , such a compromise would be difficult to arrange . |
| 21 | Irvine , California-based , Corollary Inc 's multi-processor C-bus II specification will support Intel Corp 's future Advanced Interrupt Controller ( APIC ) with availability pegged for this calendar quarter . |
| 22 | The relationship used for this purpose is CONTAINS-BINARY-OF which is tight coupling and takes one of three forms : |
| 23 | ( b ) Powers of a justices ' clerk Certain functions of the court may be performed by a justices ' clerk who may in turn delegate these functions to any clerk of the court authorised for this purpose . |
| 24 | Southeast England was the subject for a monograph of monumental significance ( Wooldridge and Linton , 1939 ) and the sequence of landscape evolution deduced for this area came to have repercussions throughout subsequent research . |
| 25 | Long hair has been spiral permed and diffuser dried for this look |
| 26 | Being an ex-Hamble aircraft , I am glad to say that G-ARJU , the example flown for this article , has civilised elevator and rudder trims . |
| 27 | The theory developed for this purpose by Wimsatt and Brooks ( and in a rather different way by Ransom and Tate ) takes as its starting-point Richards 's ( and Coleridge 's ) principle of the reconciliation of opposites , though the view it arrives at differs from Richards 's in a number of important respects . |
| 28 | Although the authority given for this proposition , Robinson v Mollet , concerned the effect of a trade custom rather than an exclusion clause , it highlighted the unacceptability of changing the substance of a relationship without the fully informed consent of the other party . |
| 29 | The method used for this test followed the recommendations of a recent working team report . |
| 30 | The method used for this process will depend on several factors , mainly the number of copies , the quality and cost . |