Example sentences of "for [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 1991-92 the DTI 's grant to the regional development agencies increased by £0.5 million to a total of £4.5 million . |
| 2 | For each the example pattern you compute er this input tuple vector . |
| 3 | Unfortunately for Froggy the outsider romped in , the unexpected bonus of nearly £100 led to ‘ just one drink ’ to celebrate , and by throwing out time that night all the money had gone and Froggy was legless . |
| 4 | You are such a bad man bringing women home for me to cook for that the courts would acquit me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ No one knew him , ’ said Raynor , ‘ no one recognised him , and for that the gate-keepers and the sentries must take great blame . |
| 6 | And Moses said , This shall be , when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat , and in the morning bread to the full ; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings , which ye murmur against him : and what are we ? your murmurings are not against us , but against the Lord . ’ |
| 7 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 8 | The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful . |
| 9 | Genuine enough , he pulled your arms out for half the race until you asked him to quicken , when you found there was nothing in the tank . |
| 10 | For half the quantity , a smaller dish must be used . |
| 11 | The rest will do a nine-hour day — after which , I imagine , they will be seeing potatoes in their sleep and grabbing at phantom clods of earth for half the night . |
| 12 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 13 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |
| 14 | A phone call confirmed that the company would indeed , under option three , settle the account for half the debt . |
| 15 | Birmingham 's Swift boxed for half the fight one-handed after damaging his right fist . |
| 16 | For half the year , he would sleep at The Kilns . |
| 17 | We have recently moved to an area of Norfolk that is infested with holiday homes : our village is rendered lifeless for half the year , and local people find it impossible to afford homes because prices have been forced up by the greater buying power of outsiders . |
| 18 | THE NEED FOR the majority of county cricketers to cobble together alternative employment for themselves for half the year has long been seen as a compromise on the professionalism of the game . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , since many astrologers seem to agree that a single phase of the spring moon is the most auspicious of the year , it is quite a normal occurrence for half the year 's weddings to take place within the space of a single fortnight around Holi , the spring festival . |
| 20 | Erm , now bearing in mind that half the year has gone , or will have gone by the time anybody arrived here , erm it seemed to me that where I , my analysis of that situation was that if we were going to achieve our target times , erm , then the theory would seem to be that we ought to make , er , two appointments now , I E two appointments for half the year will be equivalent to one appointment for the year , and that will produce the number of investigative hours which roughly that the formula says we need to knock off the required number of complaints in the required number of times . |
| 21 | The practical aftermath of death seems to stimulate his curiosity these days ; nothing urgent , mind you , just something that begins to get in your mind when you 're watching blood move in and out of your body for half the day . |
| 22 | Dr Benjamin Spock points out , however , that if an angry mother refrains from spanking she may show her irritation in other ways , for instance , by nagging the child for half the day or trying to make him feel deeply guilty . |
| 23 | Consequently James would be directing The Best of Friends for half the day and Re:Joyce for the other . |
| 24 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 25 | Martin Lee , an outspoken critic of China and a proponent of full democracy for the territory , had called for half the Legco seats to be directly elected by 1995 . |
| 26 | Two men removed courses of bricks for half the distance round the base , at the same time replacing the bricks with timber blocks . |
| 27 | They went into free-fall for half the distance and then floated gently down the rest of the way . |
| 28 | Consequently the bureau is open for half the working week for individual problems and the other half is spent on a combination of community and social policy work . |
| 29 | Institutional shareholders and directors are providing a £1.2m cash deposit as security for half the facility . |
| 30 | He will then bill us for half the cost as agreed . |