Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay , going on for half of the total occupied population . |
| 2 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 3 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 4 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |
| 5 | This figure is then broken down for each of the UK countries . |
| 6 | Apart from a general limitation relating to development which ‘ requires or involves the formation , laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk or classified road or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway by vehicular traffic at or near any bend , corner , junction or intersection so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons , particular conditions are also laid down for each of the different classes of development listed . |
| 7 | Bear in mind , however , that most of the work I was doing was word processing , which allows the hard disk to be powered down for most of the time . |
| 8 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 9 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 10 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 11 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 12 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 13 | This makes up for some of the failings of the pancreas , but it leaves the diabetics reliant on an insulin supply , and unable to fine-tune the level of insulin in the way that a healthy pancreas would . |
| 14 | THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows . |
| 15 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 16 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 17 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |
| 18 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 19 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 20 | ‘ Charles was up for most of the night . |
| 21 | No n Well yes a lot of it was brushwood or the or erm branches of the birch trees that was that was laid out for that Above the stones and then you put that above . |
| 22 | Team manager Noel Murphy faces the press flanked by captain Phil Danaher ( left ) , who was ruled out for much of the tour by a knee injury , and coach Ciaran Fitzgerald . |
| 23 | Male and female waved albatrosses ( Diomede irrorata ) , which live on Isla Española of the Galapagos Islands , may court each other , with an extensive repertory of stereotyped movements of the neck and bill , for several hours a day , day in day out for much of the year ( Figure 8.1 ) . |
| 24 | Analysis of covariance for possible factors affecting mean hearing thresholds was carried out for each of the four different types of ear . |
| 25 | The estimates from each department became more detailed and were spelt out for each of the future years . |
| 26 | That sets out the growth of the savings and which it contains in the report with paragraph and appendix reference numbers on them and it sets out for each of the groups , their proposed budgets . |
| 27 | The sponsored walk combines a fun day out for all of the family ( especially the four-legged members ! ) with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
| 28 | The overall result is a collection of beautiful and ironically harmonious expressions of pain which literally cry out for some of the vibrancy and hopeful energy of Mama Mosambiki . |
| 29 | The overall result is a collection of beautiful and ironically harmonious expressions of pain which literally cry out for some of the vibrancy and hopeful energy of Mama Mosambiki . |
| 30 | Let's look out for some on the way . ’ |