Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did so without any regard for the serious injury they could cause or for the damage they could inflict . |
| 2 | Some 20 participants from 14 community radio stations attended the workshop , and are now waiting for the legislation which would enable them to put their new-found skills into practice . |
| 3 | For the present we shall derive the relation using an azimuthally symmetric two-dimensional surface . |
| 4 | For the present we may note that every person is considered to start life with a ‘ domicile or origin ’ , which will be , as a rule , the domicile of his father at the time of his birth ; and that this domicile of origin continues until it is shown that some other domicile has been acquired , and is restored whenever an acquired domicile is lost without the acquisition of another . |
| 5 | This distinction is linked to the different population size of the various units of local government and it will be discussed further in Chapter 4. for the present we may note the importance of the distinction for the status of local authorities . |
| 6 | Of course it may , and indeed has , been argued-that the middle-class model is the model for the future [ = = ] but for the present we may simply note the variety of modes of family living that continue to exist and flourish . |
| 7 | Some of these questions will recur in the discussion section at the end of this chapter , and in later chapters on both intergovernmental relations and the services provided regionally , but for the present we will remain with those services provided by local government in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Such an historical perspective must be our long-term goal , even though for the present we can at best only hypothesize about the nature of the development processes at work . |
| 9 | For the present we must return to the adjudicative context within which natural justice and fairness operate . |
| 10 | They would do his bidding , more or less , and for the present they would have to cope with Anne . |
| 11 | For the present it would be advisable not to report such allegations without giving the person defamed an opportunity to refute them in the same report . |
| 12 | But for the present it will suffice to say that on this matter Lanfranc , no less than Anselm , would seem to have been content to rely on the tradition of the Canterbury monks , supported by documents which gave historical support to the testimony of the living word . |
| 13 | ( For the present you may have to give up smoking , but that could be an excellent idea in itself ! ) |
| 14 | But for the present I ca n't — ’ He broke off , and looked at the three dates again . |
| 15 | This is a difficult question that will be examined more fully later ; for the present I will answer it ( rather unsatisfactorily ) by saying that it is unusual for a syllable said on a level pitch to be so prominent that it would be described as carrying a level tone . |
| 16 | As well as acting as a support for the patient she will be gaining additional information relevant to her understanding of patient care . |
| 17 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 18 | If we get the right balance and range of people working for the BBC it will change and broaden the agenda of our programmes . |
| 19 | A colour leaflet could be produced for the trail which would be available free of charge to visitors . |
| 20 | If there is any way by which the Wallowa Valley could be kept for the Indians I would recommend that it be done . |
| 21 | Well , what you do is you go to your nearest leisure centre and ask if you could do the training classes for the adults who ca n't sa , who ca n't swim yet . |
| 22 | He advocated state support only for the minority who could not be self-helping because they were too old or disabled for work or because there were insufficient jobs available ; and he accepted the need for punitive treatment of the undeserving at the base of society . |
| 23 | The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people . |
| 24 | He must surely have supposed that Alpheus was shown in the southern gable-corner , Cladeus in the north ; and if the designer intended these figures for the rivers he would naturally have set them so . |
| 25 | There was , obviously , no simple starting point for the developments we shall examine , nor any pre-ordained culmination . |
| 26 | For the sun it will shine in harvest time |
| 27 | The program designer takes charge of the production of the computer program for the unit which must achieve a presentation that allows the educational objectives to be reached . |
| 28 | The population turned out to vote — 90% of those registered cast their ballots — with an enthusiasm for the activity which should hearten westerners too used to these political luxuries . |
| 29 | a graphics standard for the PC which can be added or built into a system to give sharper characters and improved colour with the correct display device . |
| 30 | Well that is acrylic , perspex is just commercial name for the stuff you can see , right ? |