Example sentences of "[noun] for [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Political uncertainty , after the Norse invasions which began in the ninth century , forced a need for protection for which services were given in exchange .
2 It may provide protection for its members as with a trade union .
3 The British constitution , by being unwritten , lacks fundamental protection for its citizens .
4 Also , the inability of Britain to sustain its economic growth from about 1870 onwards was partly explained by inadequate state welfare protection for its citizens .
5 The assumption was that women would be working because of their husband 's fecklessness and would therefore need legal protection for their earnings .
6 Comprised of master craftsmen , the medieval guilds had the exclusive rights of trading in the towns and provided aid and protection for their members .
7 The Germans , too , began with tariffs more favourable to farming than industry , and it took the McKinley tariff in the U.S.A. and the enormous Russian protective duties to convert the German rulers to protection for their manufacturers .
8 These lip tints also contain nourishing calendula , wheatgerm , Vitamin E and aloe vera and have UVB filters to give minimum sun protection for your lips .
9 You will need to consider , not just your future retirement income , but also any extras that may be part and parcel of your existing company scheme : an early retirement option ; a pension before normal age were you to become ill ; protection for your dependants should you unexpectedly die .
10 To provide an even higher level of protection for our customers we will double the amount payable on death after an accident , if both husband and wife die as the result of the same accident .
11 In supporting this report we will be setting a future agenda which should go some way to extending working , workers ' protection for our members .
12 Reality , in York as elsewhere , means precious little public protection for our pubs and heavy reliance on the better nature of the brewers credit — brewers such as Samuel Smith 's , for for their loving and appropriately ‘ benign neglect ’ of a low-barrelage , unpretentious gem like The Wellington Inn in Alma Terrace , York .
13 Foxes , stoats , weasels and other predators are all happy to get a proportion of their diet off the rabbit population and this is a very great protection for our stocks of game birds — pheasants , partridges and grouse — and indeed most other bird species .
14 As he spoke , George was wrapping a clean sack round each leg over his trousers and criss-crossing them with bands to fasten them , giving greater protection for his legs .
15 From the beginning , Lewis was a conscientious tutor who tried to keep the balance right between amiability or conviviality ( not always possible between incompatible types ) and his duty to the pupils to give them sufficient preparation for their examinations .
16 While the mortality rate at Rendcomb was high , it was merely a preparation for what pilots could expect to face in France .
17 It is appropriate , therefore , to consider the preparation for his activities in Korea afforded by his experience in directing the affairs of Japan between 1945 and 1950 .
18 During the days , while the man slept , Boy would sleep a little himself , in a chair , in preparation for his nights at The Bar ; but mostly he would stare out of the window at the city , or stare at the television .
19 ( b ) It allows you to assimilate and summarise your main points/subsidiary detail in preparation for your notes .
20 All the tenets of software pricing , laid down by IBM Corp for its mainframes and slavishly copied by the rest of the industry , are being swept away with the erosion of IBM 's dominance .
21 At the other extreme are those planners who compose the most thorough set of notes for their essays .
22 Notes for my Nephews — 1 .
23 Notes for my Nephews — 2
24 Notes for my Nephews — 3
25 Notes for my Nephews — 4
26 Notes for my Nephews and Nieces — No. 10
27 Notes for my Nephews and Nieces — No. 12
28 Despite an advertisement in his novel , ‘ Romany Rye ’ for a forthcoming book on Cornwall , none was produced , so we have to depend on his notes for his impressions of the county .
29 Too often some of our Catholic families are not aware of the existence of our excellent senior schools which provide for a solid Catholic education and a growth in faith for our children .
30 A copy should then be sent to Personnel for our files so we can keep an accurate record of the time taken for sickness .
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