Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other African countries were vocally hostile to allowing any legal trade , which , they said , would merely provoke an upsurge in poaching since it would effectively be impossible to check the origin of products offered for the market . |
| 2 | In general , all restores would then be carried out from the optical disk , minimising the number of mounts needed for the magnetic media . |
| 3 | Much of the variation in the items is indeed directly related to their use , but the variability in the design of objects destined for the same function may point to socio-cultural differences . |
| 4 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 5 | In April 1990 the ruling UDPM held a series of conferences on the issue of democracy , during which , it was reported , a number of speakers called for the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 6 | Something struck him as odd about the number of books cited for the new library . |
| 7 | A welcome addition to earlier gifts of similar works by the Directors of the Royal Blind Asylum and School , Edinburgh , was a further group of books printed for the use of the blind , in a variety of embossed and other alphabets , mainly by the two Edinburgh printers , James Gall and John Alston . |
| 8 | They all groan under the weight of books needed for the current volume . |
| 9 | A large ( 33 million word ) corpus was taken and sets of ten nearest neighbours of words derived for the thousand most common words in the corpus . |
| 10 | The contingent cause of the crisis is not of great significance , a tale of possible sabotage , possible negligence regarding the transport of shells destined for the battle front in late 1915 . |
| 11 | The embassy said that US$28,000,000 of funds earmarked for the country for 1992 would be withheld until Kenya made political and economic changes [ see p. 38563 for World Bank decision to withhold aid ] . |
| 12 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
| 13 | If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 . |
| 14 | This order brings to 13 the number of type 23 frigates ordered since 1984 , and the number of vessels ordered for the Royal Navy since 1979 to 71 . |
| 15 | Which is more than can be said for the thousands of turkeys destined for the Christmas dinner table . |
| 16 | Sartre 's account thus sets up the articulation of history , univocal meaning , and totality as the indissoluble set of elements required for the validation of Marxism , necessary in order to save it from its detour from itself . |
| 17 | In the book world list of bestsellers are often challenged , usually by publishers or authors who feel they should be in the list but have been missed out because the sample of bookshops used for the research was biased against their particular type of book . |
| 18 | The range of distances found for the other four molecules is given in parentheses . |
| 19 | I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding the House of our special announcements to ensure that special features of properties adapted for the disabled should be disregarded . |
| 20 | I have argued that the movement mobilized within and by the English Association drew its energy and force from the apparent capacity of " English " as a novel cultural form to resolve a number of problems posed for the functioning of national institutions between 1880 and 1920 . |
| 21 | A spokesman for the Department of Employment said : ‘ This was not a one-off study , but part of a whole range of studies undertaken for the Department by the SCPR . |
| 22 | It had attracted the interest of several composers before ( Corelli , Localelli , C.P.E. Bach and Salieri among them ) , but Rachmaninov 's ‘ foliations ’ leave the others standing : this is simply one of the finest sets of variations composed for the keyboard since Beethoven 's Diabellis . |
| 23 | Besides which , the list of figures qualified for the job was very short . |
| 24 | A large number of delegates called for the replacement of the entire central committee ( at the time consisting of 120-160 full members and 30-40 alternate members ) in a secret ballot , a move believed to have been prompted by President Chadli and his reformists in an attempt to bring in younger and more reform-minded deputies . |
| 25 | I 've just sent a cable to the club : list of delegates expected for the next week 's visit — does that sound okay ? |
| 26 | A similar state of affairs obtained for the coinages of Sasanian Persia and medieval England , neither of which issued any significant copper coinage or small silver coins in any quantity . |
| 27 | ‘ In any proceedings ( whether or not under this Act ) — ( a ) a statement of affairs prepared for the purposes of any provision of this Act which is derived from the Insolvency Act 1985 , and ( b ) any other statement made in pursuance of a requirement imposed by or under any such provision or by or under rules made under this Act , may be used in evidence against any person making or concurring in making the statement . |
| 28 | A lorry-load of explosives intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade was also discovered . |
| 29 | All manner of gatecrashers followed for the next twenty years . |
| 30 | By 1984 the Financial Times issue of 13 February was reporting Iran as cutting imports since the country 's ports and internal distribution services could no longer handle the flood of goods destined for the country . |