Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Thackeray had never seen or prescribed for any of the patients at the asylum . |
| 2 | I now look forward to resuming my career wholly without blame or blemish for any of the difficulties that arose at Magnet . ’ |
| 3 | Brian Ervine ( Ballydrain ) , last year 's Northern Ireland champion , brings a wealth of experience to the side , and although sidelined for much of the season due to a thigh injury , will be operating at full throttle in France . |
| 4 | Brian Ervine ( Ballydrain ) , last year 's Northern Ireland champion , brings a wealth of experience to the side , and although sidelined for much of the season due to a thigh injury , will be operating at full throttle in France . |
| 5 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 6 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Japan did not , moreover , have a primate city that accounted for most of the urban population . |
| 8 | Did you try and compensate for that by the way you set up your Cabinet-committee structure ? |
| 9 | The disease front has been moving ahead by fits and starts for most of the last two decades and three years ago crossed the Italian frontier into the provinces of South Tyrol and Venice . |
| 10 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 11 | When their prey species are inactive , cats may as well save energy , because they are unlikely to be successful in hunting , and so they rest and sleep for most of the day . |
| 12 | Of course it is admirable that expectations are high and that women should be given greater autonomy ( and hope for more in the sexual area than their Victorian forebears ) . |
| 13 | The Permanent Secretary himself , Maurice Holmes , came down closer to Williams than to R. S. Wood ( and nowhere near Cleary ) by ruling that there should be selection and transfer for all at the age of eleven , to schools of various types , with a review at the age of thirteen of all pupils who might have been initially misplaced . |
| 14 | As production increased farmers had a growing surplus over their household requirements and sold an increasing proportion of their crop , reaching 60 per cent in 1985 and in 1988 , and accounting for half of the national marketed production . |
| 15 | The nature of pollution control work draws attention to these issues because it involves a substantial degree of discretion at field level among staff who are physically dispersed and isolated for most of the day while tending a complex and unpredictable environment . |
| 16 | It was his general attitude of irresponsibility , selfishness , and dislike for any of the functions of kingship other than easy popularity and personal privilege . |
| 17 | Much inter-bank lending in Eurocurrency takes place and accounts for much of the business . |
| 18 | Fish featured largely in our diet during our stay , and being a keen fisherman I longed to get offshore and try for some of the bigger game fish . |
| 19 | The meristems located at the root and shoot apices of the embryo recommence activity following sowing of the seed and persist for most of the life of the plant . |
| 20 | 3 Gradings as outlined for each of the groups |