Example sentences of "for [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That extra-strong attachment for Mum remained until the end of our mother 's life , at the age of eighty-two . |
| 2 | Resistance to the EEC-funded search for uranium began with the anti-nuclear movement but quickly developed , in the major area being prospected , Co . |
| 3 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 4 | A debenture is a document issued by a company in exchange for money lent to the company . |
| 5 | The original claim by the present plaintiff against the appellants was one for money lent in the sum of £500,000 . |
| 6 | At the end of the nineteenth century , dredging for gravel began in the bay when extensions to Devonport 's naval dockyard were planned , and the sinking of the protective shingle beach left Hallsands exposed to the winter storms , which in 1917 were so severe that after two days only one house was left standing . |
| 7 | A PENNILESS van driver 's master plan for murder ended in the slaughter and dismemberment of a retired bank official and his daughter — for the sake of stealing a car , an Old Bailey jury heard yesterday . |
| 8 | Chartering aircraft for pleasure began in the 1920s . |
| 9 | Her plea for companionship appeared in the Manchester Weekly Journal in 1727 . |
| 10 | In the case of Northern Ireland , the pressure for uniformity came from the majority of the electorate who want to be as well treated as British citizens are in England or Scotland . |
| 11 | The appeal for a day of prayer for peace came as the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina grows worse and threatens to spread into other areas of the Balkans and beyond . |
| 12 | The confrontation was due to the ambiguity in Poland 's Constitution about whether supreme responsibility for security lay with the President or with the Cabinet . |
| 13 | I turned on my stomach and made love to the memory of Alison , like an animal , without guilt or shame , a mere machine for sensation spreadeagled on the earth . |
| 14 | Ultimately the pressure for reform came from the Whitehall ministries because they had to use local government to execute many of their plans , particularly for local economic development and urban renewal and they found that the machinery was simply ineffective . |
| 15 | Litigation between 1974 and 1978 concerning the need for an ambient air quality standard for lead resulted in the EPA being ordered to set an NAAQS for lead ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 16 | In this whole area the initiative for development came from the CNAA itself , which acted , in the phrase of one key participant in the developments , as ‘ a watering can ’ , with one of the officers , Ann Ridler , very much involved . |
| 17 | Revolutionary propaganda inspired by events in Russia had an effect , but the chief cause for mutiny lay in the soldiers ' disgust at their commanders ' inept leadership , Nivelle 's in particular . |
| 18 | Typically , the Birmingham man 's interest in writing for television coincided with the East Anglia one 's . |
| 19 | The greatest occasions for offence came with the biennial meetings of the Baptist and Congregational Unions and the annual gatherings of the National Free Church Council . |
| 20 | Two tests for merchantability emerged from the survey of the old authorities by the House of Lords . |
| 21 | Reconstituted in November 1988 [ see pp. 36399 , 36939 , 36960 ] , it campaigned effectively on the single issue of compensation for property expropriated under the communist regime [ see p. 38352 for eventual legislation on this in July 1991 ] , with the Independent Smallholders ' Party winning 44 seats in the 1990 elections [ see pp. 37325 ; 37380 ] and becoming a coalition partner in the government of Jozsef Antall . |
| 22 | More generally , the instinctive drive for self-preservation led to the emergence of a range of public and governmental institutions . |
| 23 | It was not weak , cowardly or treacherous , it told its assailants and for proof pointed to the arrests and the fact that it was not releasing any of the men . |