Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For to compensate for any increased leisure time which the acquisition of machinery could bring , women are encouraged to be generally more house-proud . |
| 2 | If the regulatory body does its sums correctly , it will then allow the monopolist to levy the minimum fixed charge necessary to ensure that the monopolist breaks even after allowing for all relevant economic costs . |
| 3 | ‘ He found , after allowing for some 37 factors not related to lead , ’ says Price , ‘ that those children having high lead levels in their teeth did significantly less well in tests than did those with low levels . ’ |
| 4 | Therefore , after correcting for all these potentially confounding factors , the highly significant relation between waist-hip ratio and the chance of conceiving , essentially remained the same ( table II ) . |
| 5 | After speaking for some 40 minutes , Shamir set aside his prepared text and proposed a motion that the central committee approve the political contents of his speech and express confidence in him as Likud chairman and Prime Minister . |
| 6 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Investigation revealed the sale of at least 63 works in the past six months ; yesterday a source close to Charles Saatchi was prepared to concede that the volume of sales was higher than previously stated , and that the works disposed of account for some 10 to 12 per cent of the collection , which suggests a true figure of between 70 and 100 individual sales . |
| 9 | RAF Uxbridge is the current holder of the Jolliffe Trophy , which is awarded to the unit that is judged to provide the best standard of catering for all three messes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is far too weighty and achieved a piece of writing for any such hasty response . |
| 12 | It is precisely this that makes me very suspicious of searching for some supposed rational parliamentary intention outside the language in which a draftsman who is known to be rational has chosen to express it . |
| 13 | This method would mean prevention of development which was definitely unsound upon recognised objective standards , and the community would still be able to engage in amenity planning under the salutary control of paying for any economic value destroyed . |
| 14 | It has always been to the Society 's credit that preservation work undertaken on its Merlin engines has involved every nut , bolt and washer being removed , cleaned , treated and replaced so that when rebuilt the engine should stand every chance of lasting for many future generations . |
| 15 | If the administration now seeks a coherent shopping-list of objectives , it has better find a way of accounting for these hidden benefits . |
| 16 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 17 | AS WATER COSTS LOOK SET TO INCREASE , RUTH HAYHURST ASKS IF METERING IS A FAIR METHOD OF CHARGING FOR THIS PRECIOUS RESOURCE . |
| 18 | Britain has few specialist music schools outside London , which means a lot of travelling for many talented youngsters . |
| 19 | They have suggested that the powerpack would be so designed that it could readily be repaired and with suitable maintenance would be capable of running for some 20 years . |
| 20 | All of these findings remained broadly similar irrespective of whether we analysed total warmth towards parties and party leaders , total ratings for the parties ' performance on issues , or total inclinations towards voting for all three leading parties ( Table 8.8 ) . |
| 21 | Thus the group conceived of a set of hierarchies of learning for all National Curriculum subjects . |
| 22 | When you are working out general costs of working vis à vis earning do remember to take into account the costs of studying for any additional qualifications . |
| 23 | I 'm in my thirteenth season of senior rugby , I thoroughly enjoy every moment and I would not with to play for any other club than Watsonians . |
| 24 | If you think I am trying to influence you into sending for this excellent program , part of my horoscope said ‘ You may feel a need to influence people and gain recognition for your talents ’ . |
| 25 | In the Trust House Forte case the court had to interpret the assumption that premises were available for letting for shopping and retail purposes : the issue was whether the premises were to be taken as available for letting purposes only or whether they could be taken as to be available for letting for any other purpose permitted by the lease . |
| 26 | The Labour left , meanwhile , did not manage to mount a convincing enough case for its ‘ alternative strategy ’ ( the far left had no half-way credible strategy to propose ) , while the trade union movement was not united in pushing for any positive quid pro quo in exchange for wage restraint , having rejected the Bullock proposals for Industrial Democracy , but was increasingly tugging for a return to ‘ free collective bargaining ’ . |
| 27 | They should have no difficulty in paying for those extra officers . |
| 28 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 29 | The book is worth reading for these alone . |
| 30 | If the defendant files an admission of the whole or part of the claim within 14 days of service , notice is sent in N 227 to the plaintiff , who may then apply , on notice to the defendant before the return day , for judgment for the whole , or that part of the claim , which the defendant admits , without waiting for any other issues to be resolved . |