Example sentences of "for by [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recovery programme was to be paid for by reversing the tax gains made by the top 5 per cent of earners under the Conservatives , although specific details were not published , and by reversing the 2p cut in the basic rate of income tax proposed in the 1987 Conservative Budget . |
| 2 | In all such cases the prevalence of such actions and the possibilities for their control are better accounted for by addressing the question of what it is that usually inhibits the actions , rather than by accounting for how the motivations arise . |
| 3 | Mr Gorbachev has again postponed a decision on what sort of economic system he is aiming for by referring the question of private land ownership to a referendum ; when this will take place and exactly what it will ask are not yet decided . |
| 4 | The outcome was a programme for ‘ The Living Wage ’ which called for an incoming Labour Government to undertake a massive redistribution of income through family allowances , better social services and increased social security benefits , all paid for by taxing the , rich . |
| 5 | This gave it a weird , lop-sided look and might have made it unstable had that not been compensated for by putting the hold forward . |
| 6 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 7 | He agreed with Lord Reid that the incidence of taxation would have to be allowed for by increasing the multiplicand but he thought that ten was the right multiplier in the case . |
| 8 | Isotope fractionation has been corrected for by measuring the 13 C ( to within 0.5–1.0 relative to the standard rock , PDB ) , except for OxA-3214 and OxA-3215 , for which an assumed value of -26 was used . |