Example sentences of "[coord] for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed long ago , the defences of Famagusta consisted of towers and wallwalks , battlements and arrow slits , without proper seating for cannon , or for the ventilation that cannon demanded . |
| 2 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 3 | That discretion would not be exercised reasonably if no reasonable Minister could conclude that the issuing of the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security or for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 4 | The terror , however , was not for herself or for the children but for Edward , who might realise that what he was saying was true . |
| 5 | By virtue of ss 20–1 of the 1890 Act , partnership property consists of property brought originally into partnership stock , or acquired ( by purchase or otherwise ) on account of the firm or for the purposes and in the course of the partnership business . |
| 6 | Sections 20 and 21 deal with the holding of partnership property as follows : s20 ( 1 ) All property and rights and interests in property originally brought into the partnership stock or acquired , whether by purchase or otherwise , on account of the firm or for the purposes and in the course of the partnership business , are called in this Act partnership property , and must be held and applied by the partners exclusively for the purposes of the partnership and in accordance with the partnership agreement . |
| 7 | I could see no point in the takeover either for Andrew Stavanger personally , or for the T. and T. company . |
| 8 | Although Winch contends that there can not be causes for the rules followed or for the intentions and motives of the actors who follow them , other philosophers disagree . |
| 9 | The expression ‘ dishonestly appropriates ’ in clause 1(1) means the same as ‘ fraudulently converts to his own use or benefit , or for the use or benefit of any other person ’ in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 20(1) ( iv ) ; but the former expression is shorter and , we hope , clearer . |
| 10 | A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform . |
| 11 | Dostoevsky had no use for the two peasants or for the hood and the cudgel , but he wanted the cap . |
| 12 | Nobody in the SDLP criticised Currie for his espousal of Thatcherism or for the fact that he stood against and defeated a Labour candidate to get into the Dail . |
| 13 | ( 1 ) Where an application is made for a new licence , or for the renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , by an applicant who is not an individual natural person , the following provisions of this section shall apply . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) An applicant for the grant of a new licence , including the provisional grant of such a licence , or for the renewal or permanent transfer of a licence may appeal to the sheriff against a refusal of a licensing board to grant , renew or transfer the licence , as the case may be . |
| 15 | ( 5 ) that the spending plans submitted should fall within the guidelines described earlier in that the money should not be spent on sets of textbooks , nor for the furnishing or decoration of premises , and that no more than 20% should be allocated to non-book resources |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the savage wretches had no use for paper money , nor for the apparatus and infrastructure of a moneyed society . |
| 17 | Particular provisions were made for first offenders and for the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts . |
| 18 | The Declaration outlines proposals for the lifting of censorship , the maintenance of press freedom , and for the funding and support of non-governmental publications . |
| 19 | Conditions were thus ripe by the height of the emancipation campaign in the late 1820s and early 1830s for the cheap and rapid production of vast quantities of antislavery material and for the expansion and relative cheapness — and consequent probable expansion in readership — of newspapers . |
| 20 | Finishing school DECORATIVE painters James Kerr and Alistair Erskine , whose commissions include work at St James 's Palace and for the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch , are sharing their skills . |
| 21 | This may be true for the nuclear industry and for the utility that owns the Three Mile Island ( TMI ) power station , but in terms of the physical harm done to the public , the TMI accident proved to be virtually a non-event . |
| 22 | In the case of adolescents , this course can have important repercussions both for the individual woman and for the society though , in some countries , social policy moderates the incidence of the phenomenon and cushions its effect . |
| 23 | There will be targets for waiting times , for answering calls and for the promptness and accuracy of benefit payments and customer satisfaction surveys will be carried out . |
| 24 | — The people commit themselves to a life of obedience , and Moses sprinkles the remainder of the blood over them ( verse 8 ) — identifying them with the sacrifice made on their behalf both initially and for the failures and sins of everyday life . |
| 25 | He thanked the Institute and the Tax Committee — now the Faculty 's technical committee — for their positive and constructive role in the development of the tax system over the years and for the thought and effort put into representations . |
| 26 | He knew what was right for us and for the country and he said it . |
| 27 | Which , Dorothea had often thought , they probably were , and really , she had half-envied Alida , not for her independence but for the responsibility she had , and for the pride and satisfaction she was entitled to feel in her work . |
| 28 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 29 | And in fact , even with as many professionals as one would wish it 's often extremely difficult to actually engage people in treatment erm , and the whole process of getting people into treatment or into health can be very difficult , both for the young person and for the therapist or helper involved . |
| 30 | For these reasons , cycling is a way of providing mobility which is cheap for society and for the individual as Hudson puts it , ‘ The provision of routes for bicycles gives people ‘ freeways ’ for the price of footpaths ’ . |