Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] for [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Anne thought over Sarah 's words about clothes for people who needed them and felt ashamed that she had not thought of their plight . |
| 2 | They were planning to sell Burton Group Financial Services to General Electric of America for £183 million . |
| 3 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 4 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 6 | There may be the most practical methods of purchase for people in remote rural areas , but avoid any mail order or catalogue offer unless there is a free home trial period or bona fide money-back guarantee . |
| 7 | As such , care programming can be seen as an attempt to standardize mental health service delivery and to set norms for the administration of care for people with a certain level of dependency . |
| 8 | Nineth five per cent of large bowel cancers showing loss of heterozygosity for 17p alleles also contain a point mutation . |
| 9 | Cupertino , California-based Symantec Corp is to buy Contact Software International Inc , Carrollton , Texas in a pooling of interests for 3m new shares worth $48m . |
| 10 | Services should also affirm their policies on equal opportunities by ensuring that they monitor the use of their services by specific ethnic groups , test that the information they make available for the public is comprehensible and accessible , canvass users ' views of the current services , recruit staff of different ethnic backgrounds , at all levels in the organization ( although , in the case of Afro-Caribbeans in particular , this can be difficult due to the lower educational opportunities of this group and , in consequence , a paucity of suitable candidates for posts ) , and institute a programme of training for staff of all grades and backgrounds to understand their own conscious and unconscious prejudices about race and culture . |
| 11 | In January 1629 the king knighted Vermuyden at Whitehall , and a month later he sold him his royal manor of Hatfield for £10,000 cash down and an annual interest of £195. 3s. 5d. and a red rose . |
| 12 | Yet in 1988 , the management consortium sold the company to Volvo of Sweden for £15 million claiming that the business had been restructured during the previous two years , but that the ‘ key to success in this business is to be a world player ’ . |
| 13 | What is true of academic life for a teacher of jurisprudence is no doubt equally true in other walks of life for people in business , industry , the civil service , legal practice , farming and indeed fishing . |
| 14 | Thames exercised the clause by hiring one piece of plant for £40,000 less than the contractor had paid — and found that it eased tensions between them . |
| 15 | There you could buy a pennyworth of chips and a piece of cod for tuppence — served on a plate if you wished . |
| 16 | There was also a promising coastal site at Druridge Bay in Northumberland , where the CEGB had bought 300 acres of land for £700,000 in 1985 . |
| 17 | A retailer buys a box of 24 packets of crisps for £3 and sells the crisps at 15p per packet . |
| 18 | MANUEL NORIEGA , 54 , one time ‘ Maximum Leader ’ of Panama , was found guilty in Miami yesterday of selling his country to the Medellin cocaine cartel of Colombia for $4 million in bribes . |
| 19 | MANUEL NORIEGA , one time ‘ Maximum Leader ’ of Panama , was found guilty in Miami yesterday of selling his country to the Medellin cocaine cartel of Colombia for $4 million in bribes . |
| 20 | The Warrington-based group has spent more than £100m on acquisitions as it repositions itself for an upturn in the economy and yesterday it added to the line-up with The Crossroads hotel and restaurant at Weedon , Northampton , for £1.5m and South Marston Country Club near Swindon for £800,000 . |
| 21 | The band had made an album with RCA for £30,000 and sold 500,000 copies around the world and had a Top Five hit with ‘ Crash ’ . |
| 22 | Only six per cent would give up their priceless pets in exchange for £1 million . |
| 23 | Motor distributor Lex Service has bought the Nissan dealership in York for £300,000 . |
| 24 | Pittencrieff also announced yesterday it was buying Francis Communications Corporation in El Paso , Texas , for $6.65 million , and some oil and gas reserves in Texas from Exxon for $3.75 million . |
| 25 | It was purchased at auction in Copenhagen for £167,360 by London dealers Hazlitt , Gooden and Fox , bidding on behalf of the Gallery . |
| 26 | Angell , 23 , joined the club from Stockport for £100,000 . |
| 27 | Brooks Marketing , which owns the Burke 's franchise , is offering about 10 per cent of its equity in return for £150,000 . |
| 28 | In sum , a working hypothesis is that powerlessness , or ‘ lack of control over destiny ’ , produces a susceptibility to ill-health for people who live in chronically marginalized and demanding situations . |
| 29 | The discount rises from 1/2 % for £20,000 — £29,999 equity to 1% for £40,000 and over . |
| 30 | Fred has meanwhile offered to sell his own car to Brian for £500 , giving Brian seven days to make up his mind . |