Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] for [pron] " 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 | Ray Doyle had bowed to Jack Stone 's pleading request for protection for his family . |
| 3 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |
| 4 | And if you also apply for protection for your spouse or your whole family , you will receive a stylish Pocket Calculator as an extra free gift . |
| 5 | Petitions to the Admiralty for remuneration for his discovery brought nothing . |
| 6 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 7 | Sloan recognised that centralisation and decentralisation are not mutually exclusive , but that an organisation should find the right combination between freedom for its divisions and control over them . |
| 8 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 9 | It says they are fighting for freedom for their people . |
| 10 | To enable voluntary groups and local communities to bid for funding for their own Millennium projects for local restoration schemes , or for improving the amenities of canals and rivers , as a source of enjoyment for local people and a habitat for wildlife . |
| 11 | Exiled Nigerian poet Olu Oguibe has been awarded the All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature for his collection A Gathering Fear ( Kraft Books ) . |
| 12 | Third-party producers often require a royalty as payment for their work . |
| 13 | Like brownies , they prefer to work during daylight hours and snooze in a warm spot by the hearth during the day , only hoping for a bowl of milk as payment for their labours . |
| 14 | She had given herself , a virgin , to Ferdinando without benefit of holy matrimony and her first-born was being withheld from her as payment for her crime . |
| 15 | Indeed , largely owing to Eadmer , it is the only aspect of Anselm 's work as archbishop for which the materials allow a consecutive story to be told . |
| 16 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |
| 17 | Mr. White applied to the committee for permission for his children to be allowed to visit their mother once a month . |
| 18 | The example engagement letter at 1101.2 includes a request for permission for us to inform the auditors of our appointment . |
| 19 | And therefore the requirement is simply for a parent asking for baptism for their child to have been baptised . |
| 20 | 18–7 James McDonald , a servant at Islay House , asked for baptism for his child and this brought the first case of antenuptial fornication . |
| 21 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 22 | which is useful when they may have to wait a whole year for payment for their wheat harvest , or for the sale of fat cattle . |
| 23 | The survivors and the government can not agree about responsibility for their deaths , among them young Cliff , , John , the family , Wayne and four of his children . |
| 24 | As his family began to grow , money was hard to come by so he became a clerk for his family and John cannily gave dressmaking work to his new daughter-in-law to help them survive whilst getting good value for money for himself . |
| 25 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
| 26 | In the nearest modern marketing has come to the skin-flintery of Ebenezer Scrooge , a growing number of American shopping malls have picked the Christmas season to ban the Salvation Army from ringing its bells and asking for money for its traditional Big Red Kettle collection boxes . |
| 27 | After all , one expects better value for money for one 's computer time . |
| 28 | However , I have concluded that taking an advert would not represent the best value for money for us in this instance . |
| 29 | The benefits of privatisation of the yards and the greatly improved productivity now ensure better value for money for our own defence expenditure and help the yards themselves to compete once again overseas , as the opportunities with Malaysia and Oman have shown . |
| 30 | It is more than an atlas : it is a superbly illustrated synopsis of the characteristics of the major tropical diseases , their infective agents , their ecology , their life cycles and their vectors … probably the best value for money for anyone interested in obtaining an illustrated guide to tropical medicine and medical parasitology . " |