Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed for office dictation use , this machine followed Edison 's preferred method of using electricity for the motor , but it had acoustic recording and reproduction . |
| 2 | For Martin Brundle now , the desperate job of maintaining enthusiasm for the remainder of the world championships , while the desperate need of finding a new seat hangs over him . |
| 3 | The immense size of the problem is obvious and the cost of maintaining information for the future is large , but it seems likely that the benefits will outweigh the costs . |
| 4 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 5 | The process of producing information for the bureaux involves the monitoring of legislative and other changes through newspapers , journals , Hansard , HMSO daily lists and other sources . |
| 6 | It was also tied into the whole range of English Romantic landscape painting , especially Turner , in terms of oozing love for the material and not being afraid to enjoy the application of paint . |
| 7 | A further consequence of a rather haphazard system of acquiring information for the recommendation of schools was a suspicion on the part of some headteachers that the invitation to participate was based on personal contacts and the preferences and prejudices of , for example , the local inspector . |
| 8 | European Ryder Cup hopefuls Barry Lane , David Gilford and Steven Richardson considerably improved their chances of gaining selection for the match against the United States at The Belfry in September with top-six finishes in the Lancia Martini Italian Open at Modena . |
| 9 | Planting new churches is one clear way of gaining ground for the kingdom of God . |
| 10 | The prospect of his receiving deputations as Prime Minister from the Miners ' Federation or the Triple Alliance , for example , is capable of causing alarm for the future relations between the Government and Labour — between moderate and less moderate opinion . |
| 11 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 12 | Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 . |
| 13 | Political intervention was often the only means of securing permission for the sale of a commission to another . |
| 14 | Others were more conveniently sited for them but inconveniently for the Company , as a condition of selling land for the railway . |
| 15 | In general , research suggests that in the immediate wake of unexpected news of a major loss , such as finding oneself permanently disabled after a car accident , denial may also , in the short term , be an adaptive response as a means of buying time for the individual ( Adams and Lindemann , 1974 ) . |
| 16 | Hazlitt found the humbler job of reporting parliament for the Morning Chronicle ; we find him describing how one MP rose to a parliamentary occasion by ‘ soaring into mediocrity , ’ a joke any modern sketchwriter would be proud to use and probably has . |
| 17 | So she has to find another way of providing music for the midnight service . |
| 18 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 19 | Secondly , and this was most important in terms of associating adolescents with the community , many of the ideas and precepts embodied in citizenship , such as duty , service , neighbourliness , social stability , self-realization , and contentment with one 's societal position , were politically convenient to reformers who stressed the significance of providing instruction for the moral development of young people . |
| 20 | They generally co-operated with the administration to the extent of providing money for the latest schemes ; participation , of course , was another matter . |
| 21 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 22 | At Bassingbourn the job of providing aircrew for the depleted number of operational squadrons continued but with an increased emphasis on the low level role-training which had been introduced in late 1960 . |
| 23 | Initially concerned with the advancement of these aims through the provision of low cost holidays abroad , rapid early success led to the extension of operations to the home market with publicity material stressing the proletarian nature of the enterprise : ‘ Trips for the workers ; Holidays to suit all pockets ’ ; ‘ What Cooks have done in the way of facilitating travel for the upper-middle and middling-middle classes , the WTA are arranging to do for the masses . ’ |
| 24 | CRITICAL eyes will be focusing on Arazi at Saint-Cloud today when the French-trained colt will be out to prove he is still worthy of holding favouritism for the premier Classics on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 25 | But it 's not a question of holding office for the sake of holding office . |
| 26 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 27 | It would be appreciated if researchers would make a habit of sending information for the Newsletter and the Research Database . |
| 28 | There were grounds for believing that only fear of the consequences of dismantling UNRWA for the stability of the host governments guaranteed the perpetuation of its services , pending a solution to the refugee problem . |
| 29 | The paper , designed to provoke discussion , considers the usefulness of civil liability as a means of allocating responsibility for the costs of remedying environmental damage and of preventing future damage . |
| 30 | The Laws of Manu , an ancient law book of the Hindu way of life , which discusses the customs , conventions and laws , that should operate at each stage of life and govern the relation of the different orders with one another , regards the four āśramas as the best means of attaining co-operation For the common good . |