Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 2 | The aim of the measure may also have been financial , because the Crown was empowered to distrain for half of the profits resulting from the enclosure ; it was not , however , an easy way to raise money , so it is unlikely to have been the only reason for the Act . |
| 3 | Since this possibility existed , the court considered that it would be improper to substitute its own judgment as to whether it was wise to proceed for that of the directors . |
| 4 | The stormclouds that had been threatening to unload for most of the week finally opened their hatches on Saturday afternoon . |
| 5 | However , as modulating notes ( e.g. sharpened leading-notes ) are particularly important at cadence points , it is well to provide for these in the melody . |
| 6 | It is therefore most important to provide for this in the expert clause . |
| 7 | But they do actually have the power , presuming that the will is appropriately worded , to sell for any of the assets . |
| 8 | The pain , the exhaustion , the monotony of one 's own thoughts ( I was too tired to talk for most of the day ) : how many miles to go ? how many miles have we covered ? can I keep going ? |
| 9 | There must be many middle aged climbers such as myself who have dozens of spare ascents of Ben Nevis they would be willing to swop for some of the odd hills difficult of access . |
| 10 | There is an index which tells the computer where to look for each of the files and a serial search for the file is not necessary . |
| 11 | He has had an inconsistent side to handle for much of the summer . |
| 12 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |
| 13 | It was a special comeback because we did n't really look as though we were going to score for much of the game . |
| 14 | The various explanations for communication failure that have been proposed — including not taking account of properties of the stimulus array , not asking questions , failing to perceive the role of the message , and having insufficient cognitive space to monitor the activity — seem to account for many of the experimental findings . |
| 15 | This would help to account for some of the extra calories expelled in the faeces of those consuming fibre-rich foods . |
| 16 | Abrams attempted to account for some of the striking variations in ‘ neighbour behaviour ’ which he found in different areas . |
| 17 | In an attempt to account for some of the peculiarities of the sternopleural region , Ferris ( 1940 , etc. ) has argued that the greater part of the ventral side of the thorax of some insects is derived from pleural structures , but further critical study of his theory is necessary . |
| 18 | There was not enough food being grown on the farms and the government could not afford to pay for all of the grain it had requisitioned from the farmers . |
| 19 | It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) . |
| 20 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 21 | The transactions demand for money arises because individuals receive their incomes weekly or monthly and yet have to pay for many of the goods and services they buy on a day-to-day basis . |
| 22 | You have to pay for half of the upkeep of the roads . |
| 23 | The abandoned house they bought needs repairs , but the agency helped to pay for some of the necessary work . |
| 24 | For these exercises , the front bed will be set to knit for most of the time and the back bed , with its electronic selection , will be creating the pattern . |
| 25 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | Outside funding is not easy to get for some of the feral animal programmes . |
| 27 | Interference conditions can be quickly checked with a simple expression to test for any of the four possible interference states : remote , touching , interfering , and inserted . |
| 28 | Perhaps the British Museum , for all the constraints of public ownership , might try to push for more of the same balance . |
| 29 | are they going to ask for this at the end of the installation ? |
| 30 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |