Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I described how previous experience gave me the skills needed for the post . |
| 2 | ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’ |
| 3 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 4 | I have always said that there are thousands of qualified accountants sitting out there in small companies where they are finance directors , credit controllers , company secretaries , advisers to the board , the people to whom the board looks for everything . |
| 5 | The Rector , the Squire and the schoolmaster were the respected members of the community to whom the village looked for advice and help . |
| 6 | As the lord lieutenant acts as the monarch 's personal representative in the county in question , whom the Queen selects for the post gives an interesting insight into the sort of people with whom the royal family identifies . |
| 7 | Until the beginning of NEP they constituted a disparate group of individuals to whom the party appealed for letters on local affairs , but in 1922 they acquired their official title and were subject to much more pressure from the centre . |
| 8 | Of course , had the guilds and fraternities included a handling charge in their reckoning they might have attracted an income allowing them the freedom to purchase for themselves those ‘ extras ’ now being clamoured for . |
| 9 | " Only showing them the way to think for themselves , Ron , " was my answer . |
| 10 | Contracts could be with a specialist unit outside the area , which would be able to keep its facility going by attracting patients needing that care and bringing with them the cash to pay for their operation . |
| 11 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
| 12 | Also , and very specifically , the principles upon which the students depend for preparing their work on language for the approaching teaching practice are reestablished , and explored . |
| 13 | The buy-out vehicle , usually a new company which the managers form for the purpose ( " Newco " ) , will therefore often have a fairly complex share and loan capital structure , the reason for which will in part be tax driven . |
| 14 | It is also possible to extend the range of versions to which the SPR applies for a particular module name . |
| 15 | One of the reasons which the Committee gives for this proposal is that the law should be brought into line with the law of rape . |
| 16 | The consideration which the customer gave for the garage proprietor 's promise to supply a World Cup coin was the making of a contract to buy four gallons of petrol . |
| 17 | Delegates explored the implications and responsibilities which the act poses for companies . |
| 18 | It provided that the cost of a benefit consisting of the provision of any service or facility which was also provided to the public ( i.e. , in-house benefits ) should be the price which the public paid for such facility or service . |
| 19 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam . |
| 20 | Behind this question seems to be the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing — either some thing in the world , which the word stands for , or some thing in the mind of the person who utters the word and in the mind of the person who hears it . |
| 21 | On ozone , it records world consumption of chlorofluorocarbons and halons as 1.17 million tonnes , of which the EC accounts for 318,000 tonnes . |
| 22 | The room was filled with books from the Library at Broadcasting House , the BBC headquarters , and the Langham Hotel opposite , which the BBC occupied for so many years . |
| 23 | The first four volumes , published between 1974 and 1985 , dealt with Monet 's long career chronologically and listed and illustrated nearly 2000 paintings , culminating in the series of canvases which the artist prepared for installation in the Orangerie . |
| 24 | The Koons work in question is ‘ String of Puppies ’ , which the artist commissioned for his 1988 ‘ Banality ’ show at the Sonnabend Gallery , which is named as co-defendant in the suit . |
| 25 | The system is one in which the institutions compete for students on the basis of prices , and the Universities Funding Council has produced a detailed list of guide prices , banded to take account of the varying costs of providing courses in different subject areas . |
| 26 | This judgment , which demonstrates the ‘ chilling effect ’ which the ability to sue for libel may have on the right to criticise a public authority , was cited with approval by Brennan J. delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan ( 1964 ) 376 U.S. 254 , 277 . |
| 27 | The capitalist buys the labour power which the worker offers for hire . |
| 28 | 3 They question the extent to which the system provides for representative governments noting not just the underrepresentation of third parties , but the fact that , in the elections of 1929 , 1951 , and February 1974 , the party which returned the largest number of MPs actually had a smaller share of the vote than the runner-up party in the Commons so that the electoral " winner " was , in fact , the governmental " loser " . |
| 29 | The abandonment of the gold standard and the devaluation of sterling removed the theoretical justification which the Treatise supplied for public works in a period when bank rate was too high for purposes of domestic equilibrium . |
| 30 | Benefices , however , were not the only church assets which the king exploited for his clerks . |