Example sentences of "[vb base] for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another pervasive , and important , influence for this head was technology . |
| 2 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 3 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 4 | Several factors account for this distribution : the ageing of populations in situ ; out-migration of the young and in-migration of older people . |
| 5 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 6 | My ambition at the moment is to make sure I qualify for this year 's Open Championship . ’ |
| 7 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 8 | Although they may explain homosexuality in terms of learning , they assume a common biological basis and process for this learning , and see the condition itself as homogeneous . |
| 9 | As yet , these schools account for only a small amount of annual expenditure — 3 million in 1989–90 — but the government 's expenditure plans provide for this sum to increase ( to 20 million by 1991–2 ) as more schools choose to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control and financing ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I apologise for this mess , ’ said Dotty . |
| 11 | A Cleveland Police spokeswoman said : ‘ We apologise for this lady 's distress . |
| 12 | I apologise for this error . |
| 13 | We apologise for this oversight . |
| 14 | My Lords , before the Noble Lord sits down , perhaps I could ask him to remember , he was saying s how , how splendidly the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy appointed magistrates and I entirely agree , but they appoint them , not from a list that they 've constructed themselves , they appoint them because the keepers of the roles for respective counties propose names to them which they very carefully er selected by the very special and an an and complicated process of of er of er of of examination of people whose names come forward , I find in my case that only one-third of the people whom I interview for this purpose with my Committee er are the ones which I 've I propose . |
| 15 | The time and place for this palace is not fixed , though — the women 's hats and swirling frocks remind us both of Dior and Watteau , the men are in chic , futuristic black chiffon . |
| 16 | ‘ There is no Gook or Kraut or Nip for this war ’ , he writes , ‘ and the only Iraqi jokes I 've heard have been on the telephone from back home ’ . |
| 17 | For notwithstanding I trust to bring you off happily , with the goodwill of our lord the king and all who best speak for this land , yet I do know there are some who may have other thoughts concerning you . |
| 18 | Support for this interpretation has been sought in the effects of a procedure in which subjects are given pre-exposure to a variety of flavours . |
| 19 | Support for this interpretation can be derived from studies of delayed MTS in pigeons , which have found that the magnitude of the DOE diminishes as the length of the delay is reduced , there being no effect when there is no delay ( Brodigan and Peterson 1976 ; Edwards et al . |
| 20 | Support for this hypothesis comes from an analysis of male peeking rates during the change in plumage which many ducks undergo at the end of the breeding season . |
| 21 | Support for this hypothesis consists of high pressures recorded in the basal and postprandial period , and after prostigmine , but some investigators have challenged these findings . |
| 22 | Support for this approach came from the government department responsible for assessing safety in the nuclear industry — the Health and Safety Executive , which incorporates the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
| 23 | Support for this proposition is found in Mason v Provident Clothing and Supply Co Ltd [ 1913 ] AC 724 in Morris ( Herbert ) v Saxelby , and in Attwood v Lamont [ 1920 ] 3 KB 571 . |
| 24 | Support for this thesis comes from the act that other diseases in which fat malabsorption occurs are also accompanied by vitamin E deficiency . |
| 25 | Support for this idea comes from the following observations . |
| 26 | Certainly , support for this belief can be found in the general consensus in educational circles that linguistic factors play an important role in determining a child 's success or failure at school . |
| 27 | Support for this sequence of events has come from animal models of atherosclerosis and studies using cell-culture techniques , and as Born ( 1983 ) has pointed out caution is necessary in translating these findings to the human situation . |
| 28 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 29 | Support for this assumption was obtained from a similar study in pigs that showed that amino acids derived from the extracellular space were used directly for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 30 | Support for this view comes from current ideas on how some antidepressant drugs work . |