Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common commodity considered is money , so for practical purposes the term is interchangeable with price . |
| 2 | The most common commodity considered is money , so for practical purposes the term is interchangeable with price . |
| 3 | They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another . |
| 4 | Thus for restrictive practices the burden of proof lies on the companies to show that they are acting in the public interest : in contrast , the legislation on monopolies is more open-minded , requiring the MMC to make the case that companies are acting against the public interest . |
| 5 | Thus for official purposes the old reckoning of 25 March was used , but its employment for unofficial and private purposes was waning to the extent that many documents carried a double indicator for the period 1 January to 24 March , as was illustrated by the inventory quoted in the Historical Year section , above . |
| 6 | Thus for both groups the major legislative changes of the period — the Obscene Publications Act , the Sexual Offences Act , the Street Offences Act , the Abortion Act , the Theatres Act — are significant for their ‘ permissive ’ or ‘ liberalising ’ character . |
| 7 | Thus for longitudinal vibrations the resonant frequency is related to Young 's modulus by the equation for a beam free at both ends . |
| 8 | Slowly , however , the Romans had to learn to govern Celts , and this became an even more pressing responsibility when Spain was organized in two provinces in 197 B.C. For three centuries the Romans were steadily engaged — among their multifarious commitments — in annexing territories which were partially or totally Celtic until they came to control the greater part of the Celtic-speaking world . |
| 9 | Leaving aside for present purposes the polarizing of the different parts of the Party which would take place , the constitutional issue may be highlighted by examining a hypothetical House of Commons . |
| 10 | And then for several days the children were very quiet , and I wondered what they were doing . |
| 11 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 12 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's just a form of brain death ’ , said one lifer scornfully , and indeed for many men the repetitive , soul-destroying nature of much of the work would indeed seem only to add to the pains of imprisonment . |
| 14 | Yet for many years the idea of using probabilistic information within an NLP system was viewed with some disdain by the linguistic community . |
| 15 | Certainly for many mothers the price of freeing their children from the oppressive atmosphere of yesteryear was yet a further form of oppression for themselves when freedom was overdone . |
| 16 | Certainly for earlier periods the rarity and high monetary value of items will place them beyond the reach of schools . |