Example sentences of "for the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 2 | We are acting for the above named in connection with a claim for damages in respect of injuries sustained in a [ ] accident . |
| 3 | They were the traditional way for the rich to travel by water — and in Egypt everyone travelled by water . |
| 4 | It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world . |
| 5 | One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris . |
| 6 | George Healey , as a young man in the early 1860s , paid a visit to London where he learnt of church services for the deaf conducted by the Revs . |
| 7 | " An increase is long overdue and would assist materially when the care for the deaf has to be presented at the top level , " is a lament from the BDDA 's annual report for the year 1954 . |
| 8 | He was a regular attendant at services for the deaf held at St. Saviour 's Church , and was on the committee of the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 9 | An appreciation of the whys and wherefores of nursing research is fundamental to good practice and an introduction to this for the uninitiated appears in chapter 7 . |
| 10 | But to deliver this programme successfully will require an invigoration of left politics , where hope for the dispossessed spreads to a sure-founded belief amongst the electorate that there is , after all , a worthwhile life after Thatcherism . |
| 11 | Even the few examples we have seen illustrate how species with biparental care tend to be monogamous , species in which only the female looks after the young tend to be polygynous , and species in which only the males care for the young tend to be polyandrous . |
| 12 | In Britain , for the Irish entering in search of a new life , Liverpool and London stations were their gateways to the streets more often paved with misery than with gold . |
| 13 | Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded . |
| 14 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 15 | By achieving these aims we can build an Employment Service for the 1990s valued by our clients and by us all . |
| 16 | By achieving these aims we can build an Employment Service for the 1990s valued by our clients and by us all . |
| 17 | What does this legislation do for the low paid in Britain ? |
| 18 | The ‘ spoil-sport ’ is not the same as the false player , the cheat ; for the latter pretends to be playing the game and , on the face of it , still acknowledges the magic circle . |
| 19 | Support for the latter appears to be ebbing , with the Green alliance the likely recipient of much of the protest vote . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the gap between movements of this kind ( which have sometimes been called ‘ pre-political ’ ) and modern social movements remains large , for the latter exist on a vastly greater scale , are more directly involved in political conflict , are influenced by more rigorous and elaborate ideologies , and have as a rule a more enduring , less ephemeral , character . |
| 21 | The statement says that where a member 's opinion is sought on the application of accounting standards or principles to specific circumstances or transactions of an entity of which he is not the auditor , he should ensure that he has access to all relevant information , he should contact the auditor to provide an opportunity for the latter to bring to his attention any relevant facts and , given his client 's permission , he should provide a copy of his opinion to the auditor . |
| 22 | Following Wigheard 's death , Abbot Hadrian of Hiridanum recommended Theodore of Tarsus to the pope for the vacant see of Canterbury and Theodore , accompanied by Hadrian , left Rome on 27 May 668 . |
| 23 | Though Young could have reasonably expected a bishopric , he was repeatedly passed over and in 1626 apparently offered £15,000 for the vacant see of Winchester . |
| 24 | But this would be at a great price for the many to deal with the problems of the few . |
| 25 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 26 | This makes it impossible for the poor to move to that neighbourhood . |
| 27 | Japan could be of much importance in the event of war and it might be feasible for the Japanese to fight for the United States after a war had begun . |
| 28 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 29 | Target for the 401st consisted of an underground fuel dump at Montbartier in France , close to the Spanish border . |
| 30 | A government statement said : ‘ Malta has acceded to a request for the two suspects to be tried in Malta , provided that all parties to the dispute are in agreement and consistent with Malta 's obligations under the UN Charter . ’ |