Example sentences of "for the [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He emerged two minutes later with a bulky small man , and the Land Rover turned on to the Cambridge road , making for the headquarters of the regional crime squad . |
| 2 | NATO was already providing staff and equipment for the headquarters of the United Nations Protection Force ( UNPROFOR ) near Sarajevo , the Bosnian capital . |
| 3 | There were demands in the press for the militia to be allowed greater use of firearms and for Interior Ministry troops to be provided with more and better equipment ( notably computers , communications equipment and vehicles ) . |
| 4 | When the localiser makes a demand for a left or right correction , refer back at once to Horizon and Heading using rudder for the 2° to 5° heading change . |
| 5 | In Liverpool William Rathbone extracted figures from the muster roles which Clarkson used as the basis for the statistics on mortality , disease and desertion amongst seamen engaged in the slave trade and which apparently impressed the Privy Council committee . |
| 6 | Unlucky not to gain selection for the 800m in last year 's Barcelona Olympics , Strang , who ran a ‘ blinder ’ for Scotland in the 1990 Commonwealth Games 4x400 silver medal-winning team in Auckland , has made a remarkable transition up to 1,500m . |
| 7 | Again , where a contract provides , e.g. , that A shall pay £100 on 1 January next , and if he does not do so , shall pay £200 , Equity would not allow the £200 to be claimed , but treated it only as a security for the £100 with interest . |
| 8 | The earnings ratio for the £10 for 5 years at 6% is 16.28% . |
| 9 | For the mink in America , winter is one of the best times for muskrats . |
| 10 | At Aonach Mor there is a small dam which provides all the fresh water for the day lodge facilities and which will give a good head of pressure for the cannon at night . |
| 11 | No reports of flounder from the Nawddach estuary which has probably seen its worst for the species for more than ten years . |
| 12 | The average relative abundances for these species ranges from 28.9 to 45.3 , with intermediate values for the species of eagle owl . |
| 13 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 14 | Also the farmers plant crops of grass ( ley grass ) which they use to provide rich grazing for the livestock in summer and hay and silage for the winter . |
| 15 | On Sunday December 20th at 10pm it signed a letter of intent to make the acquisition in a stock swap valued at roughly $320m for the 95% of USL it does not yet control . |
| 16 | The correlation coefficient between centile group for birth weight and standardised β cell function for the offspring of the normoglycaemic mothers was r s =42 ( p=0.015 ) . |
| 17 | Elderly people are a source of child-care for the offspring of their own children . |
| 18 | Places in those schools are by no means exclusively reserved for the offspring of the devout , but the churches might have reconsidered that policy if the Government had , in effect , continued to place a block on their expansion plans . |
| 19 | Several members of the European Parliament , including Mr Cot , had called for the pair to be suspended for five days with financial penalties . |
| 20 | Mizar itself is a splendid telescopic double , with rather unequal components , but the separation ( 14.5 seconds of arc ) is not enough for the pair to be split with binoculars . |
| 21 | Like everything else on Barbados , life is very relaxed for the pair of them and they are never on a lead , but perhaps one of them should be tethered ! |
| 22 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 23 | A systematic search for the pair of NTPs that led to the formation of stable initiated complexes ( to be shown and discussed below ) indicated that only the simultaneous presence of GTP and UTP could give rise to stable complexes , indicating that these were the first two NTPs incorporated at both promoters . |
| 24 | The bridge configuration has the additional complication of base drive isolation for the pair of switching transistors connected to the positive supply rail . |
| 25 | She 's too good for the pair of you ; she does n't deserve such treachery from her parents ! ’ |
| 26 | Give us three quid for the pair of you . |
| 27 | And you vote for the pair of them . |
| 28 | These steps failed , however , to increase confidence , and on Sept. 13 it was announced that the central rate for the lira within the framework of the ERM had been reduced by 3.5 per cent and that those for the currencies of the other participants had been increased by 3.5 per cent , representing an effective 7 per cent devaluation of the lira . |
| 29 | Recent British medical breakthroughs have brought new hope , but the harsh reality for the 5% of men who have fertility problems is still a long , undignified and often unsuccessful series of treatments , a roller coaster of optimism and despair . |
| 30 | They were , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , responsible for the general management of this category of Crown properties — for the felling of timber in the forests for the Royal Navy , for repairs to Crown property , for royal gifts to subjects , or for sale ; for dealing with claims to customary rights in the Forest , for paying the keepers ' wages and for providing hay for the deer in times of scarcity . |