Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , Sara did not want to be bound by a rigid time-table for meals , which Lizzie expected and insisted on .
2 Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle .
3 The upper line shows the least-squares regression for insectivores and frugivores , the lower one that for folivores ( from Clutton-Brock and Harvey 1977 ) .
4 It must be stressed , however , that , if the potential dysfunctional effects of ROI use are to be avoided , financial controllers must make it very clear throughout the organization exactly how supervisors are using ROI for evaluation and exactly how it is to be used by SBU and divisional managers .
5 So I left the forge , and started a new life , working as a clerk for Clarrikers , Herbert 's company .
6 In the United States allergy has been a specialty for decades .
7 He was in his prime , and had not long ago given up playing Rugger for Dudley .
8 be required to undertake further work on the project and be referred to his project tutor or mentor for counselling
9 Constructed from lightweight aluminium , it has extra wide treads and a handrail for safety .
10 A Wrangler T-shirt for Paul
11 Myers may be mining his adolescence for material , but at the same time he 's giving a continent 's youth big-screen justification for its own sedentary existence .
12 Interlining for shape
13 ‘ Nothing , beyond the fact that you do some housekeeping for Alan Dysart at Tyler 's — ’
14 She housekeeping for aunt Bessie and the lodger in South Stainmore , and he farming over at North Stainmore .
15 ‘ I 've been wanting a bike for ages , only Daddy has n't been able to manage it . ’
16 ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’
17 When off skis and quads , Ruggia has a YZ125 moto crosser parked in his garage and a new WR250 enduro bike for winter training sessions .
18 On your bike for LIDBA
19 When the bike 's owner , replete in heavy leather jacket appeared , Agassi chatted with him for a while before offering to buy the bike for £9,000 .
20 Later during that same year , my father came home to say that a friend had a bike for sale .
21 Annie told me I 'd get a bike for Christmas — a red one with a basket .
22 The big boy 's asking for a bike for Christmas and Joanna wants dolls .
23 THE little boy next door said to his father : ‘ Dad , I do n't want a bike for Christmas anymore . ’
24 The whole arbitrary system itself , which was a temporary measure of protection for tenants in a period of acute post-war scarcity , should be dispensed with as soon as the output of the house-building industry has regained a satisfactory level .
25 ‘ For the Government to consider scrapping this form of protection for tenants against landlords is a backward step . ’
26 The agency wants an end to EC beef dumping in west Africa and trade protection for cattle farmers there .
27 It was bitterly opposed , however , by other environmental activists and by France , Germany , and the UK government ( which also supported continuing the total protection for rhinoceroses , cheetahs and leopards ) .
28 Dhamma is the master principle in ‘ a Tathagata , perfected one , wholly awakened one , a dhamma-man , a dhamma-king , depending on dhamma only , honouring dhamma , revering dhamma , esteeming dhamma , with dhamma as his standard , with dhamma as his banner , with mastery as to dhamma ’ , and he will provide dhamma-guard , love and protection for monks , nuns and lay followers .
29 Pressures from the DES and what in some cases amounted to directives from local authorities , led the colleges concerned to move away from outright hostility to testing out what degree of autonomy and protection for art and design would be forthcoming within the polytechnic structure .
30 Recommendations include stopping development in crucial habitat areas , providing protection for areas of special value , and increasing local jurisdiction over coastal activities and government support of international directives to set an example .
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