Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 2 | ‘ We had the field to ourselves for 14 years , and went through the peak of the market in 1989–90 . |
| 3 | Although in this case the seller will find it hard to argue with the buyer 's concerns , where the seller himself provides the items ( even if he charges the buyer directly or indirectly for their provision ) he may well wish to keep ownership himself , either to tie the buyer to him for future orders , or to enable him to use the items for sales to third parties , even if this is to the buyer 's detriment , and against his consent . |
| 4 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 5 | Since ( 27 ) shows the necessary and sufficient condition for , it also shows the condition under which for given M. If this condition is satisfied , then WD shifts upwards and equilibrium wages and membership increase as shown in Fig. 31 7 . |
| 6 | Thus transactions between residents of two countries each using its own units of account necessitates the exchange of one for another . |
| 7 | Cos there 's some , they used to be carrying timber down the dock all one length and what already slung , already stacked for 'em and the way it cost , the way it go put the wires on me for sure now and there ai n't much to let now . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have the law on you for this , mate , I tell you , ’ he finished helplessly . |
| 9 | For instance , is n't it odd that World AIDS Day , the theme of which for 1990 was Women and AIDS , has come and gone , with no change for lesbians — no information , no acknowledgement , no nothing . |
| 10 | With Ferranti needing to raise a minimum of £150m in new equity , the issue would have to be on the basis of one for two . |
| 11 | He was still moving , slowly coming forward , and in desperation she felt along the shelf behind her for some means of defence . |
| 12 | The basis of his theory of democracy is a theory of capitalist enterprise , and Schumpeter emphasizes the connection not only by discussing the historical relation between capitalism and democracy , but by treating political parties as analogous to business concerns engaged in a competitive struggle ( for power in one case , profits in the other ) the aim of which for each party/enterprise is to increase its share of the market ( constituted by voters or consumers ) . |
| 13 | It was like , get on to those bloody phone people , he said , I was on the phone to them for half an hour , yesterday , he said have n't turned up , he said , and I organized m I work around and everything . |
| 14 | With the vision of Robert Emmet and the crucifix in mind , could the PIRA not stop to ask how they — or any of the rest of us for that matter — may redeem the bitter legacy of centuries by adding to it ? |
| 15 | He seems nevertheless to have come very close to substituting his view of the statutory power and the discretions within it for that of the minister . |
| 16 | The muzzle flash illuminated Farrell and the yard around him for several feet as he raked the sub-gun back and forth , spent cartridge cases spewing from the weapon ; smoke and steam rising into the damp air . |
| 17 | Relax the leg by holding on to your ankle and pulling the leg behind you for 5 counts ( see previous exercise ) . |
| 18 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |
| 19 | I was climbing in low gear , my eyes searching the vehicle and the bank behind it for any sign of movement . |
| 20 | Great changes were in prospect in the way in which for four centuries the states of Europe had been formally linked together . |
| 21 | I note that now they have offered to construct a footway along this small section if you will dedicate the land to them for this purpose . |
| 22 | A high dry-stone wall enclosed the land round it for some four or five acres , and inside this enclosure were more trees , oak and fir and beech above the massed colours of rhododendrons in flower , with one big horse-chestnut in full bloom holding its creamy candelabra out across the wall . |
| 23 | It was generally supportive of the monarch but became more powerful because of the dependence upon it for that support , especially during the reign of Elizabeth I. The relationship between Crown and Parliament under the subsequent Stuart dynasty was one of conflict . |
| 24 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 25 | And as Jake nodded , Shiona reluctantly resigned herself to being trapped at the table with him for another little while . |
| 26 | On our first meeting we had told Barney that we wanted to book the melin for ourselves for two weeks in June , and both it and the cottage for Christmas . |