Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I returned to the States in considerable agitation : if national white media continued their de facto denial of his campaign , Jackson might really lose the game on grounds of fair-play relentlessly circumvented for the purpose of defeating him . |
| 2 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 3 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 4 | The case only confined for the policemen the inequities of the legal system : justice depends on who the prisoner gets . |
| 5 | Krupp expected and received more consideration than Theodor Boeninger of Duisburg , whom the regional administration merely recommended for the title of Commercial Counsellor ( Kommerzienrat ) because he was wealthy , a capable industrialist , active in public and church life and had supported the government in elections and on both municipal and district councils . |
| 6 | Yet the Japanese term normally used for the transfer , ishin , is more correctly translated as ‘ renovation , — a term which implies not retrospection but a sense of renewal and looking forward . |
| 7 | In Barat et Haimet the sexual innuendo of Barat approaching Marie 's bed in the dark , and successfully imitating her husband , Travers , is difficult to miss , and since we may know that bacon , the term generally used for the meat that is stolen and stolen back over and over again , can also be used of a girl 's thighs , there is a strong suggestion that the actions are really a sexual allegory : is it Marie that the three men are trying to appropriate ? |
| 8 | The nationalization programme quickly accounted for the Bank of England ( May 1946 ) , coal ( January 1947 ) , electricity ( April 1948 ) , gas and railways ( both May 1948 ) . |
| 9 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
| 10 | Alesi , thrilling the sparse crowd with his aggressive style , was third fastest in a car specially equipped for the session with new Ferrari V12 engines . |
| 11 | Delays brought about by the teachers ’ industrial action in the summer of 1984 and normal staff turnover probably account for the remainder . |
| 12 | Air-dispersal probably accounts for the distributions of some liverworts , though many spores are not long-lived in a desiccating atmosphere , but the presence of certain hepatics on Ascension Island , St Helena and Tristan da Cunha seems to confirm it . |
| 13 | The investment also called for the extension of some existing warrants for two years — they now expire in 1996 . |
| 14 | I doubted it because whatever the efficacy of Dr Gyggle 's treatment and however convincing his explanation of how a lonely and fucked-up boy built up a delusion both to compensate for the lack of a father and punish himself for his own Oedipal crime , I still could n't convince myself that I was entirely rid of my mage . |
| 15 | Consequently , while Parliamentary sovereignty is ‘ an instrument well adapted for the establishment of democratic despotism ’ , on a true understanding of the interlocking nature of the concept of sovereignty with the principles of the rule of law it is conducive to the promotion of liberty . |
| 16 | However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [ |
| 17 | The 1992 programme therefore calls for the liberalization process to be carried to completion . |
| 18 | Firstly , only slightly more than half the electorate voted , when other turn-outs for referendums have been around two-thirds ; and despite considerable pressure from the clergy , only one-third of the total electorate actually voted for the measure . |
| 19 | The provision normally provides for the buyer to pay interest on the balance purchase money and this should now be fixed at the Law Society 's Interest Rate . |
| 20 | He said that the Queen eagerly waited for the bishop to show some of his eccentricities but , ‘ fortunately or unfortunately ’ he had acted with the utmost decorum . |
| 21 | So there was an Englishman , a Welshman and a Scotswoman all fighting for the Hereford seat in Parliament … and you 'll have to wait until 9th April to hear the punchline . |
| 22 | The test of whether there are unobservable electrons can not be the test just given for the presence of dragons . |
| 23 | So , too , was the success of John Churchill , Earl of Marlborough , whom Anne in December 1702 created a Duke , an almost unprecedented honour normally reserved for the sovereign 's sons , a promotion which he rapidly justified by a series of brilliant victories , from Blenheim in August 1704 to Malplaquet in September 1709 . |
| 24 | Cypress ' Sparc ‘ sunsidiary ’ Ross Technology shipped only about $3.9m worth of product last quarter and its continued existence should Sun not opt for the HyperSparc is in doubt . |
| 25 | Cross-examination was ‘ the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth ’ , he said . |
| 26 | The pact also calls for the firms to collaborate in developing the operating system for use in running real-time applications on the Cray Y-MP EL entry-level supercomputer . |
| 27 | ‘ There is now no sort of work in the home strictly reserved for the wives , ’ Young concluded . |
| 28 | The Act also provides for the setting up of new procedures for the identification of children with special educational needs and for the establishment of a new definition for the term . |
| 29 | The Act also provided for the introduction of community councils as a vehicle for the expression of local opinion . |
| 30 | The truce also provided for the continuation of discussions about a permanent peace between the two realms . |