Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many larger houses were being split up into ‘ so-called flats ’ , and he called for protection for such families . |
| 2 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 3 | It is used as base for many cocktails , but one of my favourite ways of serving the stuff is with a little help from the hedgerows . |
| 4 | In the notes at the back of the book Gordon explains how he waited for hours for that one photo . |
| 5 | The similarly large increase in recorded crime in many countries in the second half of the twentieth century has also been cited as support for this theory , which has strongly influenced interpretations of crime in the contemporary Third World . |
| 6 | We have received a request from the N.E.B. for copies for all the examiners , and we were delighted to agree , and in turn asked the executive to consider financing this , or getting the office to supply copies . |
| 7 | Not far from there , at 7 rue Delta , he had hired a pavilion due for demolition for these artists ( it has long since gone and been replaced by a house ) . |
| 8 | Adjust your times so that your ETA at the holding point coincides with a time based on your last acknowledged position report , and flight plan for times for each section of the route . |
| 9 | Another problem is the more general one of liability for negligence : as we saw in Chapter 5.3 ( f ) , this is regarded as insufficient for liability for most serious offences , and yet it may be sufficient for manslaughter . |
| 10 | Prior to 1924 , the Board of Education 's Regulations for University Tutorial Classes , 1913 , defined the standards and requirements for grant-aid for these classes . |
| 11 | As a capital city whose population includes , among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-Christian religious observance . |
| 12 | As a capital city whose population includes among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-christian religious observance . |
| 13 | From the user perspective it is important that access to the data should not be unduly restricted , for instance , by the need to apply for permission for each usage of the dataset . |
| 14 | Bicarbonate concentration was reduced and urea , creatinine , phosphate , and urate were increased in all groups , but there were no significant differences between groups for these values . |
| 15 | For the whole economy the social cost of monopoly power is obtained by adding together the deadweight burden triangles such as ACB for all industries in which marginal cost and marginal revenue are less than price and social marginal benefit . |
| 16 | After waiting for Shildon for half an hour Rain used the phone in the Cloister and rang the Post . |
| 17 | She talked about plans for another mini-series , hinting that those ‘ hefty ’ sex scenes may not be too far away . |
| 18 | He was acting as courier for some of his family 's purchases earlier in the year . |
| 19 | In this respect , s14(5) of the SGA provides : The preceding provisions of this section apply to a sale by a person who in the course of a business is acting as agent for another as they apply to a sale by a principal in the course of a business , except where that other is not selling in the course of a business and either the buyer knows that fact or reasonable steps are taken to bring it to the notice of the buyer before the contract is made . |
| 20 | Suddenly Rain laughed : ‘ Paul , I hope you do n't mean to swap this inconclusive stuff about knives for any worthwhile information I might have . |
| 21 | One result would be an agreed agenda for action for that specific nursery , with pointers for future development . |
| 22 | erm and surely this , this is the implication that we were talking about last week , that erm if , if you are going to promote industrialization which is now the aim somebody 's got ta produce a surplus for investment for that . |
| 23 | Such surveys formed the basis for research for many years and still remain the principal source for some categories of data . |
| 24 | Their writings are designed as spring-boards for that action which enables the understanding which is felt experience . |
| 25 | As in the Congress of People 's Deputies elections in March 1989 [ see p. 36513 ] , practices reminiscent of elections held before the introduction of the democratic reforms under Gorbachev continued to prevail , including artificially high turnouts , a lack of choice between candidates for many seats , and overwhelming communist majorities . |
| 26 | Obliged to ask parliament for funds for these expeditions and for his other expenses , the King found that , instead of voting him the customs duties for life , as was normal on the monarch s accession , it attempted to impeach Buckingham for corruption and incompetence . |
| 27 | Three countries-Brazil , India and Japan-were initially identified in May as candidates for such retaliatory action ( see p. 36926 ) ; at a special GATT Council meeting on June 21 and at the subsequent regular meeting on June 21-22 these three all expressed the apprehension that eventual US action under this provision would undermine GATT and the Uruguay Round , whereas the USA maintained that no trade action had yet been taken and assured the Council of its continuing strong commitment to both GATT itself and to the Uruguay Round . |
| 28 | ‘ Between the two of them , he owed between three and a half and four and a half thousand dollars , just for cocaine for that weekend . ’ |
| 29 | The demand for labour for all firms , L D , is a function ( a ) of the real wage rate , w , and ( b ) of the level of effective demand for output as a whole , y D . |
| 30 | In conclusion , one of the English teachers contacted during research for this study spoke warmly of his own reasons for liking to work with a particular text . |