Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 2 | Because advertising revenue is now critical , a paper or TV channel catering successfully for the views of the poor or the unemployed would soon go bankrupt , whereas those meeting the minority tastes of the wealthy remain financially sound . |
| 3 | Although this is not accepted widely among the medical profession , there are many reports of it being used successfully for the treatment of hyperactive children . |
| 4 | Following the recent and much-lamented demolition of the Firestone Factory by Trafalgar House , we pressed successfully for the listing of the School of Music . |
| 5 | She ran successfully for the Vice-Presidentship of the Student Union . |
| 6 | Agreement had been secured locally for the deployment of 500 armed UN peacekeeping troops in the capital , Mogadishu , and on Aug. 28 the UN had approved the deployment of an additional 3,000 troops . |
| 7 | A small charge is made locally for the use of the showers . |
| 8 | The design of the area will depend upon whether you have a practical room available ( dissection , if you are including this , will require hand washing facilities ) , a reading area and somewhere for the provision of supplementary reading , and whether the library can be used . |
| 9 | Thus , within the discipline of literature , there must be a place not only for poetry , but also for nineteenth-century German poetry , and a place somewhere for the use of fibre optics in cable television . |
| 10 | Not being for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons it is in the general enlightened opinion of the time wholly for the benefit of the community , although such benefit be intangible . |
| 11 | Management would not be entitled to interest relief on loans to contribute capital to a partnership which acquires a company because the loans would not be " used wholly for the purposes of a trade carried on by the partnership " ( see s362 ( 1 ) ( b ) ) . |
| 12 | The most troubling of these measures is the first , which is presumably for the benefit of the security services . |
| 13 | The thermometer watch can measure either air or water temperature — presumably for the benefit of winter swimmers . |
| 14 | But these commissions , mostly for the originals of jokes and cartoons which Willis had managed in former times to sell to magazines , had grown fewer and fewer in the last ten years , as , indeed , had the drawings themselves . |
| 15 | One small room shows a splendid set of Rubens sketches , of scenes from the Metamorphoses of Ovid , done mostly for the King of Spain 's hunting-lodge . |
| 16 | Most of our panel do the job on a semi-voluntary basis , mostly for the love of the hobby , and out of concern for the welfare of fish in general . |
| 17 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 18 | What one found in the stricter forms of feudalism was an attempt to organize landed wealth more directly and coherently for the recruitment of knights . |
| 19 | Four ‘ change-facilitating factors ’ are picked out by Ramon ; heavy and unchanging reliance on segregated institutions ; the existence of a minority of psychiatrists prepared to act politically ( while not having the desire to act in a party political framework ) ; the autonomous nature of the regions leading to more enthusiastic reform beginning in socialist and communist areas ; and perhaps most importantly for the concerns of this book , |
| 20 | This is not simply for the purpose of recouping capital costs , but more importantly for the purpose of generating huge profits for the private sector developers . |
| 21 | The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs . |
| 22 | But more importantly for the Republic of Cyprus , shaped by the late Archbishop Makarios , the conference will concentrate minds on the division of the island . |
| 23 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 24 | Some were in use as fulling mills whilst others were used predominantly for the grinding of barley for brewing the monastery 's beer supply . |
| 25 | Their venture had been from start to finish " planned by the woollen interests , financed from the profits of that trade and built predominantly for the needs of the woollen industry . " |
| 26 | It is always good advice to read widely for the sake of your historical knowledge and understanding but also for the improvement of written English . |
| 27 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 28 | And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world . |
| 29 | ASL compensates by using compound signs such as TABLE/CHAIR etc. for the concept of furniture . |
| 30 | However , suppose that only in the smooth regions were galaxies and stars formed and were conditions right for the development of complicated self-replicating organisms like ourselves who were capable of asking the question : Why is the universe so smooth ? |