Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 2 | Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent . |
| 3 | But it does mean that , faced with options ranging from what is merely arguably right to what the auditors believe to be best , their critics are convinced that auditors will in practice settle for the arguably right if that is what the directors prefer . |
| 4 | The temple could only be entered by the king as the officiant of every god and by the priests , who in practice deputised for the king in the ritual . |
| 5 | The national entities of England , Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales are organized in a unitary rather than a federal structure and parliamentary government in practice provides for the supremacy of the executive branch . |
| 6 | We might be tempted also to say that other benefits of depreciation accounting would ensue , such as producing a charge in revenue accounts for the use of assets , rather than as at present for the financing of assets . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 8 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 9 | Throughout these years the powers of monarchy were in effect exercised for the advantage of ascendant magnate factions who enjoyed supremacy at court and aroused widespread hostility in the country . |
| 10 | Now unit six is very likely to come up in the exam so when you do this test for Monday you are in effect preparing for the exam . |
| 11 | Appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that staff working for the vendors are not involved in work performed for the purchaser or vice versa . |
| 12 | The whole story is that I was asked to ride Docklands Express , Cool Ground , Auntie Dot and Bonanza Boy in home gallops for the television cameras and then to compare the quartet . |
| 13 | To avoid some of the problems associated with such a broad range of responses it was decided to limit the potential variance in accident estimates for the following study . |
| 14 | The programme structure for education was published in Output budgeting for the Department of Education and Science ( Department of Education and Science , 1970 ) . |
| 15 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 16 | As Pawley and Syder point out , the number of such formulaic or composite expressions runs into very many thousands and the ability to apply them in use accounts for the fluency of the native speaker . |
| 17 | He was interviewed by Menzies — still as the deputy — in the second week of September , and taken out of a class in pistol shooting for the occasion . |
| 18 | Higher wage claims led to unit labour costs in manufacturing increasing for the first time since 1987 , while consumer price inflation increased from an annual rate of 2.1 per cent in 1989 to one of 2.5 per cent in 1990 . |
| 19 | When the NAAFI ran out of cups , the old dear was at her wits end and sent for the orderly corporal , who in turn sent for the orderly sergeant . |
| 20 | He or she is remembered in prayer and asked to in turn pray for the person 's desired object . |
| 21 | Each player in turn aims for the highlighted number — hit it and the ‘ ball ’ moves towards the opponent 's goal , one , two or three places depending on whether a single , double or treble was hit . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is amazing that Sir Leon Brittan should still refer to these ‘ costs ’ long after Pöhl has said quite clearly that they are irrelevant : ‘ the repeated reference to alleged huge savings in transaction costs for the currencies of a single currency area are not in the least convincing ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ ( 1 ) Subject to the following provisions of this section , a child who is being looked after by a local authority may not be placed , and , if placed , may not be kept , in accommodation provided for the purpose of restricting liberty ( ‘ secure accommodation ’ ) unless it appears — ( a ) that — ( i ) he has a history of absconding and is likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ; and ( ii ) if he absconds , he is likely to suffer significant harm ; or ( b ) that if he is kept in any other description of accommodation he is likely to injure himself or other persons . |
| 24 | Wilkinson Sword is embarking on a seven-fold increase in advertising spend for the launch of its Protector wet shaving system . |
| 25 | We have a steady flow of new developments in hand to compensate for the declining production from our older North Sea fields , notably Forties ( BP : 83.1% ) and Clyde ( BP : 51% ) . |
| 26 | Such changes are made in English to account for the notion more than one and for the notion meaning approximately in the past in verbs . |
| 27 | All small mammal concentrations in the fossil record must be regarded as potential predator assemblages , and the activities of predators must be investigated in order to allow for the predator biases inevitably present in the faunas . |
| 28 | They cover mainly the period since 1950 in order to allow for the full return to peacetime economic conditions which occurred largely during the reconstruction period after 1945 . |
| 29 | The experiments were performed in order to test for the following experimental hypotheses . |
| 30 | This value was compared with recall values for early serial positions in order to test for the primacy effect . |