Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [verb] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff at Marks and Spencer in Darlington presented £2,000 to the Alzheimers Society and £1,500 to Hearing Dogs for the Deaf . |
| 2 | bill for the quarter between the second of August and the twentieth of September , and he had to pay seven quid for standing charges for that bill . |
| 3 | The next task is to establish a means of setting baselines for both PB and CB . |
| 4 | It demonstrates that there is a case for arguing that the child care system should no longer reinforce inequities but become a means of redressing them , and like improved health should see education as a proper means of laying foundations for the children 's futures . |
| 5 | Emphasis has been placed on increasing income inequalities as a means of boosting incentives for more work effort on an individual and corporate level . |
| 6 | What we do object to is in their cynical use on stretches of open road and motorways as a means of penalising motorists for doing something that causes no danger to anybody . |
| 7 | In particular , missions led by ministers have proved a useful means of opening doors for companies sending representatives . |
| 8 | But the imperial powers also imposed taxes to force local people into producing goods for sale . |
| 9 | Finally , a government controls people by providing remedies for breaches of laws and for the violation of people 's rights . |
| 10 | Few primary schools are likely to match the example of Meadowfield Comprehensive School in Sheffield that raised £80,000 by accommodating conferences for the City 's Area Health Authority and its Training and Enterprise Council but it 's an example of the sort of thing that can be done with imagination and energy . |
| 11 | But he knows he can not possibly find $2 of spending cuts for every $1 in increased taxes , as once was promised . |
| 12 | Gaze at the black bar between the left-hand pair of slanting gratings for about thirty seconds , then transfer your gaze to the dot between the central pair of gratings ; they will appear to slant in the opposite directions . |
| 13 | This Fact Sheet will be followed by a series of Briefing Papers for MPs , which will go beyond the facts to a description of the types of arguments that have been employed by researchers to study the causes of unemployment , including the possible effects so far as they are known of various remedies that have been proposed . |
| 14 | In a bid to boost environmentally-friendly tourism , the Broads Authority and Eastern Electricity have set up the first of a series of recharging points for electric boats on the northern rivers of the Broads . |