Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pn reflx] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 2 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 3 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 4 | It may be that he was one of the many unlearned priests forced to absent themselves for the sake of their own education , but his going to Chester seems to suggest rather that he was both able and ambitious in the new province . |
| 5 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 6 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 7 | However , it should not be forgotten that Nicolae Ceauşescu 's colleagues and their wives had quickly learnt to reward themselves for the hardships of their long struggle for power . |