Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 2 | But they 're all the same so that if you are er with which is the medical side and an opportunity arose for some other reason for you to transfer to another group we have n't got to retrain you . |
| 3 | This doctrine enables a lessee to sue for any trespass committed between the granting of the lease and his entering in pursuance of it . |
| 4 | – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere . |
| 5 | The fall in pocket money received for this age group contrasts with a rise from £1.40 a week to £1.48 shown in a Halifax survey of the under-12s last month . |
| 6 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
| 7 | Conditions could be imposed on the planning permission which would overrule the general permission given for such a change in use by the Use Classes Order ( Class 11 is ‘ use as an office for any purpose ’ ) . |
| 8 | He craves success the way an alcoholic longs for another drink . |
| 9 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank for all her hard work as our efficient and conscientious secretary , and to wish her and her family every success in the future . |
| 10 | One man in Düsseldorf allegedly remarked , even in the presence of a member of the SS , that ‘ we have the Führer to thank for this ’ . |
| 11 | West Belfast should be treated as a special case and a uniform grant at the Premium 3 level given for all trainees ; alternative solutions must be found where it is simply not possible to find employers to take second year trainees ; cover should be given to management committees to protect them from personal liability in the event of insolvency . |
| 12 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 13 | In the heart of London and in its leafy suburbs , English Heritage cares for some marvellous properties which survive , after extensive restoration , almost in their original state . |
| 14 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 15 | 9.8 An employee who suffers personal injury for which compensation is not payable under the Regional Council 's approved schemes may be awarded an ex-gratia payment to compensate for any financial expenditure incurred . |
| 16 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 17 | I have never before had the privilege to work for such an environmentally-conscious , safe , dynamic and forward-thinking company . |
| 18 | The principal strengths of the human information processing system lie in its ability to make selective use of available visual cues and to utilise an understanding of the text to compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 19 | He had his own share of responsibility to bear for this . |
| 20 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 21 | Advance with English is a four-year language course designed for all children aged 12 years and upwards who have completed an English course at primary level . |
| 22 | Also , because smoking tends to be associated with a lower body mass index , our inability to adjust for any confounding due to body weight will have tended to result in an underestimation of the effect of smoking . |
| 23 | We 've the President to thank for that . |
| 24 | Joe decides to draw up a profit and loss account for this initial period . |
| 25 | It may be that the script on the Phaistos Disc represents a chance survival of a script developed for some special , possibly religious purpose . |
| 26 | It would be easy to dismiss this significance were it not for the fact that general or national interests continue to be important and highly effective rallying cries for much of contemporary politics . |
| 27 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 28 | He looked at the stiff unbending features of the recruiter for a moment : the dark hollows around his eyes and his dry , parchment-like skin betrayed a long addiction to opium , and Duclos guessed that hid irritability stemmed for this . |
| 29 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 30 | Suppose the result holds for all simpler triples ( P' , Q' , R' ) . |