Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " WIRS gives information on labour costs as a proportion of total costs which we used as a proxy for information on capital intensity , but our analysis gave no indication that the predicted relationship did obtain . |
| 2 | During the St. Leonard 's excavation , the reredorter ( toilet ) drain was uncovered which entered into a fissure for drainage to the river . |
| 3 | This seemed like a grab for power to some , but she saw it differently . |
| 4 | He stopped for an early beer at a roadside pub in Surrey , then dropped the car off in its lock-up garage and strolled to a cafe for lunch . |
| 5 | It read like a cry for help , for support . |
| 6 | Whilst the ambiguity and allusiveness of late 19th century sculpture was firmly rooted in the representation of the human figure the ( point of contact between the two exhibitions ) which acted as a metaphor for emotion , that of Chadwick or Wilding goes beyond that so that the human body is alluded to indirectly , as a train of associations rather than direct mimetic referent . |
| 7 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 8 | It opened with a piece for clarinet and tape by Gregory Levin ( born 1943 ) , typical of its time ( 1975 ) in its title , Crossroads , and correspondingly anonymous in its taste for weaving of atonal melodic threads . |
| 9 | But , as we have just seen ( p. 127 ) , there are good reasons for thinking that the overt CR evoked by a CS for shock may fail to show context-specificity in spite of the fact that contextual cues can help the retrieval of associative information . |
| 10 | Adminius fled to Caligula and begged him to intervene , but that strange un-balanced Emperor toyed with a plan for invasion but suddenly changed his mind . |
| 11 | Engaged in the reform of the Board of Trade in 1668 , he then served as a commissioner for trade between 1668 and 1672 . |
| 12 | A luscious festive cake , spicy and buttery-rich with marzipan , it originated as a speciality for Mother 's Day . |
| 13 | My heart leapt like a lift for joy . |
| 14 | Whereupon the leader decided on a colour for example brown . |
| 15 | She confessed to a passion for bacon and tomato sandwiches and took to telephoning her friend , Sarah Ferguson , the daughter of Charles 's polo manager Major Ronald Ferguson . |
| 16 | One story tells how he called at a farmhouse for shelter but the farmer knew that the Dragoons were close at hand and liable to raid the farm . |
| 17 | Reich thought that there were logical consequences of psychoanalytic findings , which led to a need for change in the moral teachings and practice of educators in schools , the home , and in churches . |
| 18 | Mr Kaufman insisted that he opposed statutory regulation , and that the report amounted to a request for self-regulation . |
| 19 | Zander later acknowledged that the decisions as to what amounted to a need for advice in each category were conservative , highly artificial and suitable only for research purposes , and he described the test as ‘ … necessarily crude and inadequate . ’ |
| 20 | In Lithuania , 13 died and 112 were injured when troops stormed the television centre in Vilnius ; in Latvia , four died in a battle for government buildings in Riga . |
| 21 | Elections to the territory 's legislative assembly were held in June and resulted in a victory for Congress ( I ) ; a six-member Congress ( I ) ministry led by V. Vaithilingam was sworn in in early July [ see pp. 38287 ; 38338 ] . |
| 22 | She said in a statement that there was a lot of blood and she went to a neighbour for help . |
| 23 | A trooper appeared with a message for Fakrid . |
| 24 | Six thousand people marched in a plea for peace in Ulster following the Shankhill Road bombing which killed ten people . |
| 25 | A short while after his flight , Dr Kalley put in a claim for compensation for £1,574 , through the British Government , for the damage the crowd had caused to his house . |
| 26 | They were both intellectual Jews with a deep knowledge of literature and art enmeshed with a taste for mysticism and the occult . |
| 27 | Beyond the distancing and perpetual deferment of irony , therefore , Nizan engaged in a quest for stability , certainty , reliability . |
| 28 | The Northumbria police constable is making his mercy dash after the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle responded to a cry for help from Romania . |
| 29 | She ran to a neighbour for help when she found her front door bolted . |
| 30 | And then er , they brought it back and then they started doing to quarter to six , but it still was n't good enough cos you ca n't , you ca n't have all these people in suits and briefcases stood outside a pub for quarter of an hour waiting for it open , you know |