Example sentences of "[adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The companies that have used computer data bases most successfully for competitor intelligence have kept the data bases small and simple . |
| 2 | Despite having a virtual monopoly of business from its " host " purchaser , the acute unit felt unable to compete successfully for GP referrals with providers on the periphery of the district because of their old buildings and facilities . |
| 3 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 4 | An appeal went out locally for building rubble and the volunteers started their task two days prior to Christmas . |
| 5 | If you have a skill — typing or knowledge of motor mechanics , for instance — try advertising locally for weekend work . |
| 6 | Binding guarantees will be set locally for in-patient waiting times , starting with the operations where waiting causes most distress . |
| 7 | If central government , as a matter of policy , curtails the building of new local authority houses then , within a very short time , there will be few council houses available locally for allocation . |
| 8 | The hotel has a good reputation locally for food and you will soon realise why . |
| 9 | Well find somewhere for lunch . ’ |
| 10 | We 'll stop off somewhere for lunch . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll wake you and we 'll stop somewhere for breakfast . |
| 12 | It was mentioned that there should be somewhere for guest and visitors to sit . |
| 13 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 14 | Once in Munich Leopold set about making arrangements for somewhere for Nannerl to stay . |
| 15 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |
| 16 | This is not as frightful as it may sound : with self-build projects the council inspectors are usually very helpful , although you should n't badger him/her relentlessly for advice , and employing reputable tradesmen should eliminate any problems with outside labour . |
| 17 | To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use . |
| 18 | The thin towers are n't covered with silver , they 're made of metal : they were rockets , once , presumably for emergency launching of satellites — perhaps even for defence . |
| 19 | There was a fire-hole in the centre of the room , presumably for warmth in the winter . |
| 20 | The Watchmaker , having wound up the watch he had made , had retired elsewhere , presumably for contemplation . |
| 21 | Navy ( presumably for repair work ) ; 130 tons of bolts ; 100 tons of nails ; and 1,127 tons of sundry items of which there are very many on a vessel . |
| 22 | It was already laid with a cloth , presumably for dinner . |
| 23 | Presumably for tax reasons , most refused to list their incomes and the magazine compiled its list with educated guesses , as Forbes and Fortune do with their much longer , global rich-lists . |
| 24 | Kneeling in the Rectory pew of Loxford church , Anna watched Peter preparing deftly for communion . |
| 25 | Elizabeth : fearing worst for compensation claims |
| 26 | Unigate fears worst for doorstep pinta |
| 27 | This initially meant that the bed-wetter would be made to sleep in the guard-room , where during the night he would be wakened hourly for toilet purposes . |
| 28 | Since the 1971 Act , most immigrants have needed work permits and these have been granted mostly for work in those industries like the health service and hotels , where there is a shortage of domestic workers . |
| 29 | The change of chip is largely a political move , since the CPU is used mostly for housekeeping matters on an Auspex server , the main work is carried out through a series of custom and ASIC chips handling Ethernet , File and Storage processing . |
| 30 | Back in the city , Sam and Graeme had owned a prop hire business , lending out country antiques , backgrounds and surfaces to photographers and stylists , mostly for cookery pictures . |