Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well because I think a thanksgiving service for victory and for praying for those who 've died on both sides , I think that 's perfectly reasonable , but a victory parade , goodness a hundred thousand Iraquis died . |
| 2 | For to compensate for any increased leisure time which the acquisition of machinery could bring , women are encouraged to be generally more house-proud . |
| 3 | I have n't read such a self-consciously ‘ literary ’ book about climbing for some years , and that style came as a shock , perhaps even intrusion : |
| 4 | One of the results of the emphasis on remedies in administrative law is that the procedure for applying for these remedies is central to an understanding of the position of the public law litigant . |
| 5 | But because the declaration and injunction are remedies in private law as well as in public law , there are also procedures contained elsewhere in the Rules of the Supreme Court for applying for these remedies . |
| 6 | By the way , friendly , protective neighbours are absolutely invaluable and well worth cultivating for that reason if no other . |
| 7 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 8 | On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water . |
| 9 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 10 | If the regulatory body does its sums correctly , it will then allow the monopolist to levy the minimum fixed charge necessary to ensure that the monopolist breaks even after allowing for all relevant economic costs . |
| 11 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
| 12 | After allowing for this subsidence there are no significant residual gravity changes between June 1991 and June 1992 , except at the summit crater where there was a decrease of 80μGal . |
| 13 | ‘ He found , after allowing for some 37 factors not related to lead , ’ says Price , ‘ that those children having high lead levels in their teeth did significantly less well in tests than did those with low levels . ’ |
| 14 | Although we are unable to ascertain the price increases for the various insurance companies in Northern Ireland and Great Britain as we can in the Republic of Ireland , nevertheless our research does indicate that even after allowing for these rate increases the cumulative increase for Autocover in Northern Ireland and Great Britain since the commencement of the scheme is significantly less than the average increase charged by most other insurance companies during the same period . |
| 15 | After trading for some months , he has been approached by a company which says it owns the rights to the trade name Pizza Parlour and that he must desist from using it . |
| 16 | After walking for some time , having covered about half the distance between the two stations , Willie became aware of a steady , yet rather unnerving sound just ahead as if someone was hammering the rails . |
| 17 | After walking for some time through the wood Valdemar put his finger to his lips and motioned us to be quiet . |
| 18 | Therefore , after correcting for all these potentially confounding factors , the highly significant relation between waist-hip ratio and the chance of conceiving , essentially remained the same ( table II ) . |
| 19 | However , a Belgian study in which cuff width and arm circumference were taken into account revealed that even after correcting for this relationship , weight appeared correlated to blood pressure ( Demanet et al , 1976 ) . |
| 20 | After correcting for this imbalance by the direct standardisation method , the recurrence rate in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated patients ( 15% ) was only half that seen in the other two groups ( 30% ) although this difference still failed to reach statistical significance . |
| 21 | After listening for some time , I began to grow uneasy , feeling increasingly suspicious that his faith , though enthusiastic , was almost entirely groundless . |
| 22 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 23 | After testing for any side-effects on the plant or on neighbouring plants , it will be tested on a field scale . |
| 24 | After calling for some ice-cubes which we popped into the straight Pernod , we drank them down , with predictably weird results ( we had already had Dexedrine ) . |
| 25 | After speaking for some 40 minutes , Shamir set aside his prepared text and proposed a motion that the central committee approve the political contents of his speech and express confidence in him as Likud chairman and Prime Minister . |
| 26 | After riding for some time in the dark , they finally caught up with the cart at a toll-gate . |
| 27 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 28 | After stopping for several months in Toulouse , they arrived in Paris in February 1904 ; she was never to leave . |
| 29 | The multivariate proportional hazards regression in table II shows that the relation between waist-hip ratio and probability of conception per cycle , after controlling for all the other mentioned variables , remained essentially the same : waist-hip ratio yielded the highest independent significant contribution to probability of conception per cycle ( hazard ratio 0.706 , 95% confidence interval 0.562 to 0.887 ) . |
| 30 | After screening for some months on the surface of the mine , a boy would then link up with a collier who would take him as help-mate or butty in his stall . |