Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ . |
| 2 | Once again , employers showed little enthusiasm for them . |
| 3 | Got that money for me ? |
| 4 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't make that decision for you , ’ he said raggedly . |
| 6 | Christ borne that judgement for us and we have passed from death into life life ! |
| 7 | Joseph Gandy , who claims in 1805 that his designs originate ‘ in the humane desire of increasing the comforts and improving the condition of the Labouring Poor ’ , makes little provision for them . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 9 | German civilians especially suffered mistreatment at the hands of the Red Army in the East , but there was little sympathy for them after six years of war . |
| 10 | There was little sympathy for them from club officials , with ‘ apathy ’ one of the words used to describe their attitude . |
| 11 | Zborowski told Carco how he had taken fifteen canvases to a merchant the other morning and wanted very little money for them , but the merchant sent him away … |
| 12 | And we work hard , we get very little money for it , we wait to get to the top and it never happens . |
| 13 | She 's just got him out of prison after making all that money and going through all that shit for him , he finally comes home , and all he wants to do is watch the match on the telly . |
| 14 | Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’ |
| 15 | In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ . |
| 16 | These are : that they remain as at present , organized and administered on an ad hoc basis ; that responsibility for them be given to the CNAA ; that they become the responsibility of TEC ; that they become the responsibility of a joint CNAA/TEC body to be set up ; and that a new and independent validating body be established specifically for foundation courses . |
| 17 | Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency . |
| 18 | ‘ I reserve that pleasure for you . ’ |
| 19 | This may be the book of a man whom ‘ mountaineering makes … happy , but there 's no doubt at all that I have very little talent for it . ’ |
| 20 | There should be plenty of that wool for me . |
| 21 | What it means is that we reduce our service , and we take , we can , we can , we can expect the independent sector to fill that gap for us . |
| 22 | To fill that gap for us immediately . |
| 23 | Please could you identify this coin for me ? |
| 24 | There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward . |
| 25 | By the late 1980s no African government could afford to neglect the significance of the sector for the employment of the hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school leavers who were joining the labour market each year , and most were making policy statements which indicated some support for it . |
| 26 | Some support for it , however , can be gained from the legislation which came into effect on 1 January 1977 , in the State of California . |
| 27 | Dore ( 1973 ) used this framework in a comparison of the contrasting employment systems in British and Japanese industry ; and Kobrin ( 1976 ) empirically tested the convergence thesis itself using cross-national research for more than 90 countries and found some support for it . |
| 28 | If you think a particular assumption might reasonably be disagreed with by the reader of your essay you should make that assumption explicit ( and then provide some support for it ) . |
| 29 | There may be nothing else in this trick for you , but you could get dead finding out . ’ |
| 30 | plus , erm , plus the expenses from us going from Glasgow , I do n't know whether anybody from Edinburgh will have expenses , but erm , what shall , where , where shall I ask her to send this cheque for it , I mean I still , there 's still an account open for it in Glasgow for audio description |