Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this and the following day , over 300 sorties were flown as part of preparations for the US Marine invasion of Tulagi and two smaller nearby islands . |
| 2 | Israel had sought his release as part of negotiations for the freedom of Western hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 3 | The Princess was at the unit to launch a new leaflet aimed at raising cash to pay for research into cures for paralysis . |
| 4 | SCOTVEC has written to colleges reminding them of the availability of a devolved system of assessment for awards for which only one college provides the course . |
| 5 | Unions are hoping it could persuade one company to have a change of heart over plans for a pay freeze for some of it 's workers . |
| 6 | They featured ( i ) the reinstatement of the Ministry of Justice ( abolished in 1966 ) , the minister having the right to overturn court rulings ; ( ii ) the guaranteeing to defendants of the assistance on demand of a defence lawyer , including at the investigation stage ; ( iii ) a reduction in the number of capital offences from 34 to 11 ( retaining as capital offences treason , espionage , terrorism , murder and " economic crime " such as sabotage and theft of state property ) , and the exclusion of women from capital punishment ; ( iv ) clearer definition of the crime of agitation and propaganda against the state ( which was no longer to be a capital offence ) , in order to prevent its abuse by the authorities ; ( v ) the redefinition of internment and deportation as penal rather than administrative sanctions ( i.e. requiring a court ruling rather than merely a local authority order ) ; and ( vi ) the introduction of remission for prisoners for good behaviour . |
| 7 | The Act provides a complete code of liability of shipowners for such occurrence and any common law liability is generally abolished . |
| 8 | The enormous expansion of higher education since 1960 has arguably provided a further extension of opportunity , but it has not succeeded in developing parity of esteem with universities for institutions supposed to be concentrating on vocational and technical education — an aspect which , once again , has invited numerous international comparisons [ Postan , 1967 ; Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 9 | All sorts of reasons are given for the lack of enthusiasm in schools for physical science and technology , but never that which might be the fundamental one . |
| 10 | But the big bonus for Morrissey fans disappointed by his no-shows at June 's Glastonbury festival and the second day of the Madness/Finsbury Park weekend last month is that , on proof of purchase of tickets for either of the cancelled gigs , they can get a £20 discount per ticket for the French trip . |
| 11 | Equally , patrons such as Walter Rathenau and banker Carl Fürstenburg advanced sums of money for quarters for a Secession gallery . |
| 12 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 13 | Corporatism is designed to sustain the existing economic system by securing the co-operation of labour in policies for incomes , prices , profits and dividends which can only be against its long-term interests ( Panitch 1979 ; Jessop 1979 ) . |
| 14 | There was a printed form of recommendation of patients for admission to the benefits of the infirmary , and it was emphasised that no child under seven years of age , except in case of an operation , and no person without decent apparel and a proper change of linen , or labouring under any infectious disorder whatever could be admitted as an in-patient . |
| 15 | The strength of opposition to calls for a working party to consider the options for electoral reform delighted the party leadership . |
| 16 | Erm , I 'm not in a position to add anything very much to the article for next year , I spent most of Friday afternoon with the Tech last week , erm , but there 's still obviously a good deal of uncertainty about programmes for next year , erm , what I think has been very positive is that we have now er , this year for the first time since the Tech 's formation , they 've started to discuss some of the issues about the programmes with a group of providers . |
| 17 | The social movements of the 1960s were relatively unsuccessful in producing such doctrines in a coherent form ; and the student movement , in particular , came to an end in a welter of conflicting views about the agencies and objectives of radical social change , beset by arguments about its own relation to the working-class movement , about the importance of cultural as against economic and structural changes in society , and about the role of violence in movements for social change . |
| 18 | Converting this sort of projection into figures for the amount of necessary new-build and rehabilitation is not an exact science . |
| 19 | Surely it helped with the welcomes they received all down the river with locals for ever insisting they come in for meals , to stay , to be guests of honour in parties for the whole town , to be driven round and shown the sights and to have their strange English accents listened to . |
| 20 | In particular the Court found unconstitutional the differentiation between levels of payment for lost land and those for other property , and also the restriction of compensation to claims for property expropriated after June 8 , 1949 . |
| 21 | The final dividend also includes an element of compensation to shareholders for the UK government 's decision to reduce tax credits from 25% to 20% , announced at the 1993 Budget . |
| 22 | The old , traditional method of exchange of contracts for sale by the buyer 's solicitors or representatives calling personally on the seller 's is very rarely used . |
| 23 | 1986 ) , to be included — combining an orientation to the world of work with strategies for learning which emphasized relevance and inquiry . |
| 24 | You may also have a manager who organizes the arrangements for gigs as well as developing new areas of work like contracts for recording , publishing , with an agency or for merchandising . |
| 25 | She spent hours sorting Francis 's quantities of clothing into piles for Franky , Joy and the boys on the town hall stoop . |
| 26 | A document taken by the Garda Síochána ( the Irish police force ) from a leading republican , Sean Garland , in May 1966 , and later published as an appendix to the Scarman Report , contained a good deal of evidence of plans for intensive military training , but it also outlined some of the new political initiatives being taken by the movement . |
| 27 | I have nothing to add to the present state of knowledge on plans for Portland and I have no knowledge that the EH101 utility variant is to be used in the air-sea rescue role , at least in the predictable future . |
| 28 | In the context of shortage of funds for projects , the member states discussed the effects of a likely fall in the allocation of resources to Africa from the industrialized world in favour of the emerging democracies in eastern Europe . |
| 29 | It is then necessary to distinguish this type of patronage from a fourth kind , in a period in which there were qualitatively new social relations of art , determined by the increasingly regular production of works of art as commodities for general sale . |
| 30 | Neither these heads of agreement nor their acceptance by the Vendors will constitute a binding contract between the parties nor a restriction on any further terms which may be included in that contract , but , subject thereto , it is intended that they form the basis of instruction to lawyers for the drafting and completion of a legally binding agreement between the parties . |