Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority finance settlement for 1991-92 allows for local authorities in England to spend nearly £17.5 billion on education — 16 per cent . |
| 2 | Mr Lamont , the Chancellor , has forecast a borrowing requirement of £28 billion for 1992–93 to pay for the recession , modest Budget tax cuts and extra public spending . |
| 3 | For example we could have used a simple computer such as the DEC PDP-8 , or a suitable hypothetical computer such as that presented for didactic purposes by Knuth ( 1968 ) . |
| 4 | JS specifies that machinery such as that used for harvesting should be energy efficient , and that waste must be neutralised prior to disposal . |
| 5 | Some tax reformers have argued that the abolition of MITR and other tax reliefs , such as that provided for pension fund contributions , would allow further cuts in income tax to take place . |
| 6 | As a result of both of these considerations , it is most unusual for MAS to act for a buyer on a contingent fee basis ( other than an MBO or MBI team , and then only on a selected basis with a suitable risk reward ratio . ) |
| 7 | So for that to happen for that food to be converted into a form that your body can use it 's got to be broken down . |
| 8 | The values of R1 and R2 must , therefore , represent something of a compromise between that required for correct d.c. bias and that required for a sensible frequency of oscillation ! |
| 9 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 10 | Before long , wine scholars and menu compilers are gravely debating the question of which Bordeaux vintage will best harmonize with the lamb , the potatoes and the artichokes , wondering whether the presence of the truffles does not after all call for a burgundy . |
| 11 | But Langmuir probes work only at low temperatures , far below that needed for fusion . |
| 12 | If power is reduced below that required for level flight when the wheels are retracted the plastic wheel flashes red — not bad for a forty-year-old design . |
| 13 | Note the reference to " welfare " , a low test which is below that required for reckless manslaughter . |
| 14 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 15 | In the SE corner lies a ciborium in the form of a Gothic steeple , perhaps even a model of that planned for St Vitus ' . |
| 16 | Rural population growth has had a distinctive regional pattern , which is , of course , the inverse of that observed for rural depopulation . |
| 17 | By making crowns of the most precious metal , gold ( and in the case of that made for Queen Alexandra platinum ) , and setting them with the most resplendent stones available , a combination of the most precious substances proclaimed the supremacy of the state and its titular head . |
| 18 | It is already a business committed to export , with 80 per cent of the film going abroad and 30 per cent of that destined for continental Europe . |
| 19 | He will have every comfort and care , I assure you — probably in excess of that provided for any human infant ever . ’ |
| 20 | The level of US aid is not on the scale of that provided for El Salvador , but it has still risen six-fold since the beginning of the 1980s to US$82 million in 1986 . |
| 21 | Contrary to popular belief , both the tail compensation system and the gyro will work quite normally in this position and the pitch requirement is an exact mirror image of that required for normal flying . |
| 22 | The team , admittedly hastily assembled , had spent weary hours in an unused store room cracking away like lunatics with not one spark of light to show for it . |
| 23 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 24 | He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors . |
| 25 | A new series to encourage young learners of English to read for pleasure |
| 26 | I admire Mac because he has remained at the top of British sprinting for a decade through a lot of hard work . |
| 27 | Greenbaum and Quirk posit a principle of end-focus to account for the tendency to process information' so as to achieve a linear presentation from low to high information value' . |
| 28 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 29 | Significant changes were identified by applying a statistical threshold of 0.05 corrected for multiple comparisons ( see Fig. 2 legend for methods ) . |
| 30 | However , the incoming Conservative government of 1979 opted for a different approach . |