Example sentences of "[vb base] for [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Minister believes that education in nursing is a vital investment in the profession and the nation , she will ensure that those funds remain for education only and will strengthen the Government 's commitment to ring fencing . |
| 2 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 3 | My brave days are over and I now ride for relaxation rather than a fall . |
| 4 | Asked what they think women want , they opt for tenderness rather than sensuality . |
| 5 | We do not demand a ban on all sterilisation just because some women are forced to be sterilised , we do not even attack the whole concept of a well are state just because of abuses like the cohabitation rule , so why oppose pay for childcare solely because it might be abused ? |
| 6 | The contribution from quarrying halved to £1.9 million , with dry-stone prices and sales suffering in the recession , demand for roadstone down and only slate performing well . |
| 7 | A person 's autonomous choices call for respect only as long as they do not seriously impinge on another 's enjoyment of his autonomy and that other has not agreed beforehand to give up certain of his choices as a condition of practising medicine in , for example , the National Health Service . |
| 8 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |