Example sentences of "for [verb] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | My constituent , Mrs. X , who is still suffering badly , had been treated in a less than fair way by those who conducted the criminal investigation and also by those who decided that there were no grounds for bringing the perpetrator in front of a court martial . |
| 2 | Will he condemn the occupants of the Opposition Front Bench for using the issue in a squalid attempt to lure Liberal voters into their camp and for indulging in two-faced opportunism ? |
| 3 | His reasons for using the guillotine in the past , which were appropriate at the time but are inappropriate now , were apparently that Labour legislation was very good and his guillotine motions showed the requisite democratic reticence . |
| 4 | The Oxford dictionary gives minimal comfort for using the word in this manner and it surely strikes the UK ear as pompous or worse , over-zealous . |
| 5 | Likewise the debate over the relative merits of landfill gas and incineration as options for recovering the energy in waste is brief . |
| 6 | Lakatos 's universal criterion for the assessment of theories follows from his principle ‘ the methodology of scientific research programmes is better suited for approximating the truth in our actual universe than any other methodology ’ . |
| 7 | As a member of the Board and Executive of the British Amateur Gymnastics Association which is responsible for shaping the sport in this country , chairman of the Women 's Technical Committee and the Commonweath Games Council for England gymnastics representative , Paul takes a high profile role . |
| 8 | Jack for one never forgave himself for encouraging the venture in the first place . |
| 9 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 10 | The Archbishop then became a popular hero for defying the King in this sordid affair , and those , including Andrewes , who had obliged Lady Essex in the divorce were discredited . |
| 11 | Such procedures are right for generating the phenomenon in Wagner 's associative form — a series of widely spaced exposure trials will promote the formation of a context-stimulus association ; and the after-effects of presentation of the target stimulus could not be expected to survive a 24-h retention interval . |
| 12 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 13 | You 're right : the world owes a lot to ‘ clear American leadership ’ for keeping the peace in Europe and Asia ( ‘ All over bar the shooting ’ , December 15th ) . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) ( a ) The justices were under a duty to determine whether any relevant criteria for keeping the child in secure accommodation were satisfied , pursuant to section 25(3) of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 15 | Ironically , one requirement to become a civil patrol commander , directly accountable to the army for keeping the community in line , is literacy . |
| 16 | Dressing for television is covered at length ( ties made from madder silk and with an Olney knot at the best for keeping the microphone in place ) . |
| 17 | Lower capacity utilization was also important for explaining the fall in the profit rate in the United States , though this is only a partial explanation . |
| 18 | This is a basic requirement for understanding the way in which word order is related to the expression of word meaning . |
| 19 | This is important for understanding the way in which it will be argued that Talcott Parsons has misunderstood Freud . |
| 20 | MacArthur urged Acheson to raise the matter with Truman and persuade the President to overrule Johnson ; he added that Truman should grasp the opportunity provided by the treaty for regaining the initiative in East Asia from the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | There are , therefore , in my judgment sound reasons by way of analogy for establishing the law in the sense which Lord Goff proposes . |
| 22 | And while Boro could point to Norman 's two brilliant stops as the reason for coming away empty handed , they had to thank Pears for saving the day in the 71st minute when he saved point-blank from Mohan to prevent an own goal . |
| 23 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 24 | The Parish Council have asked me to get an estimate from you for replacing the seat in its original position and concreting it in place . |
| 25 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 26 | In 1653 he was appointed one of the commissioners for propagating the gospel in northern counties . |
| 27 | With Liverpool manager Graeme Souness starting a five-match UEFA touchline ban for abusing the referee in the first leg , their 1992 European campaign has produced a catalogue of disasters for a club once feared across the continent . |
| 28 | For analysing the way in which theological terms like ‘ faith ’ , ‘ grace ’ and ‘ revelation ’ are used in order to undergird the ‘ meaning ’ theist position , and for a more general discussion of the issues , there is a useful collection edited by Basil Mitchell called Faith and Logic . |
| 29 | As for rearing the child in a laboratory , the unit prepared for him is not equipped with bunsen burners and retorts and animal cages . |
| 30 | A mounting clip is available for fixing the alarm in larger openings . |