Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 2 | Such deterrent action seems obvious but there has been an across-the-board reluctance by BCU committees over the years for the membership to have been informed of punishments handed out for any misdemeanours . |
| 3 | The proportion of rooms held back for this purpose is renegotiated annually : Winter has agreed to continue the 1985 arrangements over the following summer , i.e. 30 per cent over June-August and 15 per cent in May and September . |
| 4 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 5 | The vast amount of routine clerical labour which had made up so much day-to-day activity in the past had been lightened by the coming of the woman typist and sometimes also of clerks recruited specifically for this sort of work . |
| 6 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 7 | But that one As you saw from the the past papers that 's a usually quite a bit of marks go in for that . |
| 8 | And here is a platform littered with persons waiting anxiously for that last train home . |
| 9 | Grant was removed from those authorities , so that any increase in spending brought a fall in income and , therefore , implied a further increase in rates to make up for that loss . |
| 10 | BOTTLING The blender 's task completed , the whiskies he has chosen are blended , then returned to casks to marry together for several months and finally bottled . |