Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure the replacement water is at the same temperature as the pondwater — and this goes for the water in any temporary containers as well . |
| 2 | Alejandro Mayta the revolutionary theorist who heads for the hills in the hope of joining a mass uprising comes over finally as a misguided almost pathetic figure . |
| 3 | In that rich compendium of ethnographic treasures , Shakespeare 's Bawdy , Eric Partridge tells us that the word horn stands for the penis in an extramarital adventure , as in the ‘ horn of adultery ’ or ‘ horn-maker ’ ( causer of cuckoldry ) . |
| 4 | One of Scotland 's more interesting ruins , Minto stands for the moment in unspoilt Scottish Borders scenery , which could never be ‘ replicated ’ in Japan . |
| 5 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 6 | Sangenic cares for the environment in three ways . |
| 7 | It is likely , particularly if one allows for the gaps in the 1474–75 returns , that the period when London secured its massive commercial lead over the rest of the country was the last quarter of the fifteenth and the first quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | Many of the young feel alienated from old PLO hands , such as Haider Abdul Shafi , the prominent Gazan doctor who negotiates for the Palestinians in far-away Washington . |
| 9 | To be based in London would , under normal circumstances , have been a highly desirable alternative to dashing about the Midlands and the North of England doing one night shows for the troops in draughty halls and freezing aircraft hangers . |
| 10 | The resumption of trade with Ukraine , suspended since March 1 [ see p. 38828 ] in a dispute over the price of Turkmen gas , was announced on Sept. 26 following a meeting between Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Konstyantin Masik and Turkmenistan 's President Saparmurad Niyazov ; Ukrainian radio reported that Ukraine would pay transport costs for the gas in addition to the price of 3,000 roubles per cubic metre . |
| 11 | The dynamic process generating endogenous economies of scale leads exchanges to compete by being first off the mark in a particular contract so as to achieve a sufficiently high level of trading , and consequently liquidity , and thereby low transactions costs for the traders in that contract . |
| 12 | Before anyone else hastily reaches for the rope in despair at The Cure 's ‘ betrayal ’ of their faith , I have had but one message : get your act together and think again . |
| 13 | Before anyone else hastily reaches for the rope in despair at The Cure 's ‘ betrayal ’ of their faith , I have had but one message : get your act together and think again . |
| 14 | No one could have known that he no longer heard the park sounds for the pounding in his temples , or that his feet felt iron-clad as he walked away from the woman he longed to hold in his arms . |
| 15 | This factor also accounts for the changes in the shares of imports taken from the Soviet Union and the developing countries in these years . |
| 16 | The size of the dish or plate we use affects quantity as well , and this mainly accounts for the variation in quantities of breakfast cereals . |
| 17 | The high level of the hormone progesterone during pregnancy accounts for the increase in breast size . |
| 18 | It accounts for the way in which goods not merely reflect distinction , but are an instrument of it . |
| 19 | SDLP lost a seat here as in Armagh which together accounts for the reduction in their representation by two seats as between the Assembly and the Convention . |
| 20 | We believe that it is the failure to map from roles to names that accounts for the difficulty in keeping track of who is doing what to whom in certain complicated texts with many characters — some Russian novels , for example . |
| 21 | The children live outside the immediate neighbourhood and this accounts for the difficulty in persuading parents to visit the school although great efforts have been made to improve upon this . |
| 22 | What accounts for the difference in adoption of adjustments from place to place and time to time ? |
| 23 | There is no significant difference in long term survival between Child 's A and B patients except for a higher mortality in the first two months after surgery in Child 's B ( six of 19 v three of 24 ) ; this largely accounts for the difference in the overall survival between the surgery and sclerotherapy groups . |
| 24 | this one set of social relations , of production , accounts for the relations in other spheres of social life within each locality or region , that politics and ideology are essentially explicable in terms of economic change and restructuring . |
| 25 | The ratio T/To in the above compensates for the change in terminal modulus in the rubbery material ( where rubber elasticity theory predicts GT ) while the density ratio arises from thermal expansion . |
| 26 | If all 250 rights are sold then the investor will receive ( 0.44 ) 250=110 , which compensates for the loss in value of the existing shares . |
| 27 | A crowd has no critical faculty , and is wide open to influence ; indeed , the notion of ‘ impossibility ’ disappears for the individual in such a group situation : |
| 28 | The charity then pays for the operation in an effort to control dog numbers . |
| 29 | B minor , Campra 's key of unhappy love , serves for the quasi-dialogue in which Dido begs Aeneas to stay , his reluctant departure at the bidding of the gods , and her vain plea that he return to her ( movements 7–9a ) . |
| 30 | But what does this means for the homes in particular ? |