Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjusting this income to allow for the rise in prices , it seems that the real income fell by more than one-third . |
| 2 | Another stock to advance for the same reasons was General Cinema , owner of Harcourt Brace . |
| 3 | A man who spent four heady years as an undergraduate was often advised to go to another place to train for the ministry . |
| 4 | This failure to invest for the long term can be seen also in innovation , the development of new ideas and products . |
| 5 | The Commission continued during this period to press for the creation of a single EC market in energy , particularly in response to appeals from France , which sought larger export markets for its nuclear-generated electricity . |
| 6 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 7 | Nevertheless I am convinced that where , as here , a party can satisfy the court that there is a genuine risk of prosecution for some offence which is not within the scope of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 ’ — e.g. conspiracy — ‘ or any similar statutory provision , it is not open to this court to substitute for the privilege against self-incrimination some other protection based on an order restricting the use of disclosed material . |
| 8 | But er , we were not successful in putting up an er and er to have a member of Wales elected on this occasion to serve for the next seven years unfortunately ! |
| 9 | Both sides agreed that a multi-party planning conference should be held later this month to prepare for the full constitutional negotiating session . |
| 10 | Trivers ( 1971 ) used essentially this argument to account for the evolution of ‘ reciprocal altruism ’ , in which animals cooperate only with those that cooperate with them . |
| 11 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 12 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 13 | Surely you must have some urge to fight for the company Gran founded on caring , sharing principles … ? ’ |
| 14 | 6.3 The Lease shall be completed on the Completion Date at the offices of the Landlord 's solicitors or at such other place as the Landlord 's solicitors shall [ reasonably ] require The parties ' solicitors will normally agree to complete without the necessity for personal attendance , but the tenant 's solicitor may wish to amend this clause to provide for the agreed arrangements regarding completion , particularly where the landlord 's solicitor 's office is in Berwick-upon-Tweed and the tenant 's solicitor is in Penzance . |
| 15 | Indeed it is his support for Mosley , expressed on many occasions , which goes some way to account for the continuing neglect of his work by much of the literary establishment . |
| 16 | Municipal autonomy in the regions of Italy and state autonomy in the USA seems to go some way to account for the ease of transfer of care . |
| 17 | The river is to be diverted along the man-made channel later this year to allow for the construction of a barrage on the natural river bed . |
| 18 | He 's come to this country to work for the former England star , Mike Burton , who runs a local sports agency . |
| 19 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 20 | The geographer L. Dudley Stamp fashioned his land use survey in this context to capture for the first time since the Domesday Book an impression of how the land of Britain was used ( or misused ) . |
| 21 | I soon became bored , realizing that I was n't going to get much chance to compete for the club — my best time was 23.3 seconds for 200 metres — so I joined the second club with its headquarters at the track , London Irish , which was more intimate and not quite so awe-inspiring . |
| 22 | So , ’ she enquired haughtily , putting down her coffee-mug with a flourish , ‘ would it be too much trouble to ask for the number of the nearest garage ? |
| 23 | They had little chance to ask for the type of ‘ human rights ’ being demanded by students in the Beida posters . |
| 24 | The top teams practice all year to prepare for the big event . |
| 25 | The top teams practice all year to prepare for the big event . |
| 26 | She had been working in Poole as a trading standards officer and has moved to London to earn more money to pay for the venture . |
| 27 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 28 | The plan that produces the least CO 2 costs less than simply letting market forces prevail , because its high level of energy efficiency saves enough money to pay for the investment needed to switch to biomass production . |
| 29 | Even the argument that there was not enough money to pay for the programme soon dissolved when heritage languages were actually seen to help immigrant students succeed in other subjects . |
| 30 | If the tax base is too small to support the welfare burden , there is not enough money to provide for the demand of welfare services and people have to do without . |