Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun sg] [vb -s] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Delegates explored the implications and responsibilities which the act poses for companies . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The capitalist buys the labour power which the worker offers for hire . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | The longer one opens with a series of petitions in which the meditator prays for grace to serve God with his whole being . |
| 11 | The third level at which the Spirit undertakes for us in our weakness is brought movingly before us in Romans 8:26f . |
| 12 | This phenomenon of mastery of the anal drive turns out to be of the first importance for pastoral peoples because , as I have demonstrated elsewhere , pastoral psychology is often based on the introjection of sadistic drives which would otherwise threaten the herds on which the pastoralist depends for his existence . |
| 13 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 14 | Instead , the buyer should seek to ensure that the consideration reflects the higher risk to the buyer and the terms which the seller wants for completing the disposal . |
| 15 | But you 've probably noticed the ad count has risen considerably in recent months , due to the fact that we 've upped the pages to five and edited out some of the waffle ( which the waffler pays for , I might add ) in order to ensure that most ads make it into the desired issue . |
| 16 | The second exception is where an agent receives a commission or discount from a third party and it is the usual practice of the business in which the agent operates for such a commission or discount to be paid . |
| 17 | The best solution , so officials have decided , is to ‘ privatise ’ the system , and , along with it , the series of weather craft on which the world relies for much of its meteorological information . |
| 18 | Extraordinary subsidies : these are grants towards particular projects for which the bishop asks for help . |
| 19 | ‘ We can supply everything the customer needs for vacuum bag moulding composite parts , including nylon bag film , sealant tapes , release films and fabrics and breather fabrics . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps the crisis in public housing gives concrete evidence of something the Left longs for — the marriage of representative democracy through the institutions of the state with tenants and residents exercising direct democracy in defining and managing the community 's homes . |
| 21 | Rather than being an act of neglect , this seeming parsimony simply recognise the historical fact of Congress routinely adding money to whatever the president recommends for health research . |
| 22 | Whatever the future holds for him , Mr Pozsgay has already ensured that his name will for ever be written in Hungarian history books . |
| 23 | Whatever the future holds for Northern Ireland , it is clear that Ian Paisley has moved from being a prophet crying in the wilderness to the centre of the unionist stage . |
| 24 | So that will , corroborating dimension of psychoanalysis , what the patient does for himself and can not possibly count , and as you rightly say , this leaves analytic biography erm , in a , in a kind of limbo . |
| 25 | But what is important in the episode is what the narrator takes for granted : that when men of standing disputed , arbitration was hard to arrange , and often immediately unacceptable to the party which felt itself the loser by the judgement , even where monetary compensation was offered to soften the blow . |
| 26 | With me now to discuss what the budget means for more people in our area is Paul Sampson from Deloitt Hawkins and Sells . |
| 27 | It is worth investigating what the child eats for school lunch , or how many sweets are consumed at break-time , if school behaviour tends to be worse . |
| 28 | She explains their shifts and duties and makes sure they understand what the home stands for and how the residents should be treated . |
| 29 | Around such alternatives have views polarised in the heated debate over what the bill means for viewers . |
| 30 | It is , in fact , what the brand stands for . |