Example sentences of "[vb infin] for the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me explain for the benefit of viewers that a sump is like a U-bend in plumbing , permanently full of water , so that the only way through is to dive under the water . |
| 2 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
| 3 | He could scarcely see for the blur of tears behind his spectacles , but he bent to investigate a glint of metal among the dust . |
| 4 | A separate scheme may provide for the payment of expenses and a loss of earnings allowance . |
| 5 | I am grateful for the opportunity to put the Government 's views on the matter , but underlying all that I have said is a fundamental conviction that the education system , not social security benefits , should provide for the maintenance of students . |
| 6 | On the Cowgate , many residents did not venture out late at night , and he said he would fear for the safety of tourists . |
| 7 | Would anyone stick for the idea of women having the er the being , we , th th the idea of women having the choice to have a child on their own being a good thing ? |
| 8 | I addition a contractor should plan for the cost of overheads , which may represent a sizable item of expenditure each month . |
| 9 | To make clear how we can formally test for the validity of restrictions we shall consider first of all the following simple linear regression model : where Y , X and Z are variables , the 's are coefficients and v t is an error with a zero mean and a constant variance . |
| 10 | it is able to take advantage of economies of scale , which in turn may call for the establishment of departments of specialists or experts ( eg. research and development , management scientists etc ) ; |
| 11 | 7.7.9.2 to pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply ] It is not unreasonable for a lease to contain a provision that the tenant will pay for the reinstatement of premises where insurance has been vitiated subject to a limitation being placed on the persons who can trigger this provision and possibly subject to the tenant being allowed to receive the payable insurance money as the reinstatement progresses . |
| 12 | Since we can not see how many , we will let the letter $ stand for the number of sweets in the box . |
| 13 | ( Let c stand for the number of balls . ) |
| 14 | Some have a substantial occupational pension , and possible capital accumulation which might allow for the provision of goods and services in a period of dependency . |
| 15 | The results of the interviews allied with a socio-historical examination of the background to the conflict will allow for the examination of ideologies in Northern Ireland , where an ideology is seen as a set of ideas held by a group of people that helps to structure their social world and guide their activity within that social world . |
| 16 | The Divisional Court referred to the Court of Justice of the European Communities the question whether Community law affected the conditions which a member state might prescribe for the entry of vessels in its national register and the right of vessels to fly its flag and carry its nationality . |
| 17 | For i = 1 , … , m , we will write for the excess of requirements over stocks held at site i of some commodity . |
| 18 | The Suffering Servant — one who would suffer for the evil/sin of others ( e.g. Is 52 : 13 — 53 : 12 ) Modern examples e.g. Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Anne Frank , Franz Jagerstatter |
| 19 | This would cater for the variety of children that exist . |
| 20 | Do n't ask for the Well of Lunatics — that 's the old name , and people will be embarrassed . |
| 21 | Paradoxical pain may well exist but is neither well documented nor common ; it does not account for the majority of cases of uncontrolled pain , and we are not aware of any evidence that it was an important factor in the care of the patient in the recent highly publicised court case . |
| 22 | Even though the individual shopper will often find some functional justification for his or her particular choice , as being especially practical , other reasons , some of which will be analysed in later chapters , may be adduced , relating to social rather than functional considerations which may more convincingly account for the majority of purchases . |
| 23 | I would call genealogy … a form of history which can account for the constitution of knowledges , discourses , domains of objects etc. , without having to make reference to a subject which is either transcendental in relation to the field of events or runs in its empty sameness throughout the course of history . |
| 24 | It recognizes that pragmatics is essentially concerned with inference ( Thomason , 1977 ) : given a linguistic form uttered in a context , a pragmatic theory must account for the inference of presuppositions , implicatures , illocutionary force and other pragmatic implications . |
| 25 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 26 | All that MacIver shows here , and I think that it is all he intends , is that in certain circumstances , including those where domestic creatures are happily housed , one can argue for the promotion of animals in the hierarchy . |