Example sentences of "[vb -s] for this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The main proof Van Laue offers for this argument is the polarisation of society between global conflict and a backward society that made a liberal constitution impossible .
2 The special Lok-style which Golding devises for this purpose differs considerably from the style he uses towards the end of the novel , when the point of view shifts to homo sapiens .
3 If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea .
4 Well if Steve goes for this interview he 's working till , he 'll not be in till half past eight because he says all that week he can gain four hours work because erm he 's found out you do n't have to finish after two hours , you can work as much you like , finish at ten o'clock at night if you want .
5 The models are : ( solid line ) the adiabatic CDM with ( dot-dashed line ) the isocurvature CDM , model ( the CMBR points for this model are a factor of 6 smaller than those plotted for the adiabatic model ) ; ( dotted line ) the model with texture plus CDM , .
6 What matters for this purpose is that if it escapes it is likely to do mischief and this is the meaning to be given to ‘ dangerous thing ’ in this context .
7 So if this stands for this year 's output at a hundred percent fifty percent of it has to be added on to give next year 's .
8 To assist the haulier in making early settlement the creditor , upon receiving a written request , is obliged to give the haulier ( the debtor ) all the information he needs for this purpose .
9 To return to Popper , his schema allows for this form of knowledge , but as forming the inhabitants of world II , the personal knowledge contained in the human consciousness .
10 It is generally felt that in the past local authorities have dragged their feet in taking on their responsibilities to care for mentally disordered people , and the Minister of Health , Roger Freeman , outlined further plans for this group to Parliament the day after Secretary of State Kenneth Clarke 's speech on community care ; these were , clearly , some last-minute additions to the government 's package of proposals .
11 After the election I am sure any enthusiasm he shows for this issue will disappear as quickly as he will .
12 Method B corrects for this overestimate by using the average age at which women give birth , which in England and Wales between 1950 and 1990 was 27.1 years .
13 Where the cost of finance under a facility is determined by reference to a base rate ( such as LIBOR ) a change in the base rate should not be regarded as an increase in the level of finance costs for this purpose .
14 As he prepares for this afternoon 's prestige friendly against the World Cup holders , Argentina , in Cagliari , Vicini is characteristically playing the match down .
15 As he prepares for this afternoon 's prestige friendly against the World Cup-holders , Argentina , in Cagliari , Vicini is characteristically playing the match down .
16 This may be one reason why venture capitalists argue that profitable start-up opportunities are rare — perhaps they do exist , but that the theoretically correct investment criteria are not being applied and so they can not be found — although no concrete evidence exists for this link .
17 Either of these cases may give the appearance that no home record exists for this address , and this situation will thus cause a ‘ no record found ’ error to be given , even though the desired record is in the file .
18 The Swiss Government has also submitted its application for membership , but has not yet received the assent in the referendum which it requires for this application to go forward formally .
19 It calls for this union 's sponsored MPs not to pair with Tory M Ps .
20 Czerny also calls for this tempo in the Menuetto in Canone of Mozart 's String Quintet in C minor , KS16b/406 ( after the Wind Serenade , K384a/388 ) , and for the same reason , so that we can feel the hemiola crosswinds blowing from its first bars onward .
21 Time waits for this Man
22 The explanation proposed here accounts for this fact in the following way .
23 Flavell accounts for this paradox in terms of , what he calls , cognitive salience , which amounts to the claim that the thought of the three-year-old is determined by whatever is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ at any given moment .
24 ‘ I 'd like to know how much elation black leadership feels for this occasion , if any , of murder by mob , murder by trial , murder by jury , ’ Reed stated , his voice rising for the only time .
25 There are no hard and fast rules for judging when a workshop qualifies for this accolade , any more than there are for conferring greatness on people and institutions in other forms of art ; but it is normally reserved for workshops which consistently produce outstanding items under the direction of a masterweaver , who is accepted by his peers as a pre-eminent exponent of his art .
26 In many species the natural coat colouring compensates for this top-lighting , the back being darker than the sides and the sides darker than the belly .
27 Patricia Morgan plumps for this timescale in her critique of the ‘ New Establishment ’ of social workers , psychologists , teachers and other exponents of what she calls the ‘ New Socio-Psychological Expertise ’ of child care and education .
28 One of the reasons which the Committee gives for this proposal is that the law should be brought into line with the law of rape .
29 The price the user pays for this approach is not just financial , programs of this type require large amounts of memory and hard disk systems to operate properly .
30 Some of this pollen is inevitably brushed off when a bee visits another flower , but bearing in mind that only a few grains are needed to bring about cross-fertilisation , and that a bee on a single journey may collect two million , it is clear that the price a plant pays for this transport is a very high one .
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