Example sentences of "[vb base] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conventional notion of literary ‘ tradition ’ does , it is true , compensate for the lack of an historical overview , but because it implies a common pool of resources repeatedly drawn on by a succession of different writers , it is profoundly antithetical to Formalism and its key principle of defamiliarization . |
| 2 | It is thought that this might give relief to the husband for capital gains tax for the period from when the settlement is established ( ie the court order or when the agreement between the parties was finalised ) until its termination , but the application of this section to such a situation is not wholly clear . |
| 3 | They were probably saved from an early Walesa push for the presidency by the recent row with West Germany 's Mr Helmut Kohl over the permanence of Poland 's western border . |
| 4 | Regret for the loss of the use of force against those who reneged on their promise to pay later may still be harboured by some in secret , but no longer publicly . |
| 5 | To use another metaphor , if the world of education becomes a jungle of market forces , I fear for the survival of children with special needs . |
| 6 | If this does not happen , I fear for the future of this denomination which I love and to which I am loyal . |
| 7 | Conservationists and locals fear for the future of the island and a trust has been set up to raise money to buy it for the nation . |
| 8 | I ca n't afford to fight this in the American courts and I genuinely fear for the safety of my children . ’ |
| 9 | In deciding what words mean for the purpose of defamation , the intention of the writer or speaker is largely irrelevant . |
| 10 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 11 | ALL change for the up-line to a rosier future . |
| 12 | ‘ Too-much change for the sake of change . |
| 13 | It 's just change for the sake of it . ’ |
| 14 | And both these books pale before novels that contend for the mantle of Disraeli : those of Jeffrey Archer himself . |
| 15 | Bones 1986b ) would help account for the existence of " London Jamaican " when there is no " London Bajan " , " London Trinidadian " or " London Guyanese " . |
| 16 | Other equally valid fits might also be obtained by allowing the 18-day decay to depart from a pure exponential ; it would then be possible , for example , to obtain a solution in which the two asymptotic increases account for the whole of the increase in rotation rate . |
| 17 | Various other tales account for the origin of the fairy godmother — one has it that , like the Italian witch Befana , a fairy godmother was actually looking endlessly for the Christ Child . |
| 18 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 19 | These calculations account for the enthusiasm with which some reformers embraced and recommended models for the development of self-regulation amongst slaves . |
| 20 | In each of the following situations , discuss whether the item would be included in the profit and loss account for the year to 31 December 1990 and at what amount . |
| 21 | Family influences help account for the languor of black kids at school and the regularity with which they underachieve . |
| 22 | No new procedure is without technical problems , which account for the phenomenon of the learning curve that occurs with all new technical treatments . |
| 23 | could in itself account for the presence of high cAMP values . |
| 24 | Does the extension in claimable hours alone account for the increase in the number of night visits ? |
| 25 | Could this increase in liver protein synthesis , however , account for the increase in whole body protein synthesis that Powell-Tuck et al reported in their series of patients ? |
| 26 | Account for the dominance of Prussia in Germany by 1867 . |
| 27 | Scrutiny of Table 7.1 reveals that hospital and maternity services account for the majority of funds . |
| 28 | Even though full-time workers still account for the majority of service sector jobs , the growth of part-time jobs does raise a number of questions about what type of ‘ service-based ’ economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 29 | Service industries account for the majority of employment in the economy , but the rate of growth varies between industries and some industries are contracting in employment terms . |
| 30 | As figure 4.3 shows , in 1984 , 41.5 per cent of fulltime women workers were to be found in clerical employment , while a very few further occupational groups account for the rest of most women in paid work . |