Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] for [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To explore the feasibility and value of County-endorsed , criterion-referenced Certificates in Library and Study Skills for award for pupils in secondary schools . |
| 2 | I am writing in the reply to the ongoing correspondence and discussions between yourselves and various departments within the Council regarding your application for funding for repairs to the building in Garden Terrace Road . |
| 3 | the unilateral assumption of the conduct of matters by the son must be distinguished from the son acting as agent for plaintiffs in the procuring of the signatures of his parents to the deeds . |
| 4 | Compared with diabetic patients in urban areas , those in rural areas were less likely to attend a hospital based diabetic clinic ( 46% ( 442 ) v 86% ( 1054 ) , p<0.001 ) ; less likely to be receiving insulin ( 260 ( 27% ) v 416 ( 34% ) , p<0.001 and also after correction for differences in age distribution ) ; more likely to have advanced ( maculopathy or proliferative retinopathy ) diabetic retinopathy ( 13% ( 122 ) v 7% ( 89 ) , p<0.001 ) ; and more likely to require urgent laser photocoagulation for previously unrecognised retinopathy ( 1.4% ( 13 ) v 0.5% ( 6 ) , p<0.02 ) . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Christiana Carter , eight , whose 15-year-old sister Danielle was killed by the bomb , has been allowed home after treatment for cuts to her face . |
| 6 | Such monumental works that are extant in all parts of the empire are without decoration of any kind , but consist simply of arch after arch for miles across the landscape , presenting an impressive and significant spectacle of considerable aesthetic quality , as important in the study of Roman architecture as , for example , the Colosseum . |
| 7 | But I honestly do think that we are probably at the very bottom of the list for help for women amongst the 12 EC countries — we are certainly regarded so in Europe ’ . |
| 8 | Because there is no accepted theoretical method for compensation for effects of biased nucleotide compositions in phylogenetic inferences , we have sequenced the small-subunit rDNA of the diplomonad Hexamita inflata ( 50% G+C ) and the microsporidian Spraguea lophii ( 49% G+C ) . |
| 9 | Leicester East MP , Keith Vaz , who has led the campaign for compensation for victims of the BCCI collapse , said he would seek an early meeting with the Chancellor to press for compensation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ There are means of support for women in your situation . ’ |
| 12 | Wellington also contained the headquarters of New Zealand Railways , and its massive , confident air surmounted by rows of flag-poles represented an extraordinary reaffirmation of support for railways in New Zealand . |
| 13 | It is arguable that the Swedish policy of support for parents in the labour force , as well as similar measures in Eastern Europe , have put a brake on fertility decline and perhaps reversed it . |
| 14 | Considering the Statue of Liberty has been a beacon of hope for generations of newly-arrived immigrants , it 's appropriate that Mario arrived in New York with his parents 30 years ago . |
| 15 | In a series of assaults on Scotland 's natural heritage laws the Scottish Office , and Scottish Secretary Ian Lang , have succeeded in overturning the presumption of protection for Sites of Special Scientific Interest , creating instead new ‘ natural heritage areas ’ which will be protected — if that 's the right word — by voluntary agreements . |
| 16 | ‘ For the Government to consider scrapping this form of protection for tenants against landlords is a backward step . ’ |
| 17 | The whole arbitrary system itself , which was a temporary measure of protection for tenants in a period of acute post-war scarcity , should be dispensed with as soon as the output of the house-building industry has regained a satisfactory level . |
| 18 | This can be illustrated by the early examples of protection for individuals in the special treaty provisions for minorities ; the inclusion of human rights in Article 1 of the United Nations Charter in the context of the maintenance of international peace and security ; and by the paucity of international mechanisms for the enforcement of those rights and freedoms . |
| 19 | A possible ( relatively ) benign explanation might be presented for GPs ' failure to pursue a non compulsory route : that women , whose conventional role involves running the home and family , would be less willing to go into hospital precisely because of their feelings of responsibility for others in the home . |
| 20 | Its stated aim is to develop a greater degree of responsibility for pregnancies among both men and women and to allow them to make an informed choice . |
| 21 | He said the issuing of IRA admissions of responsibility for atrocities like the Warrington and City of London bombs from the Southern capital was shaming Ireland throughout the world . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We could make the same kind of case for clusters of compatible genes building the different parts of eyes , ears , noses , walking limbs , all the cooperating parts of an animal 's body . |
| 24 | Equally , patrons such as Walter Rathenau and banker Carl Fürstenburg advanced sums of money for quarters for a Secession gallery . |
| 25 | Mrs Sayce marked her retirement this summer by a gift of money for books in Linguistics , Comparative Literature and Modern Languages . |
| 26 | I therefore arranged a meeting with Colin Campbell of DOMIS for representatives of all departments using 12/24 St Giles Street to consider both issues . |
| 27 | The aim of this study is thus to examine in detail different kinds of provision for children with special needs in the first year of secondary schooling . |
| 28 | Their removal or reform will bring no automatic pedagogical shifts , only the creation of opportunity for alternatives to be explored more thoroughly . |
| 29 | THE 1970 Education Act opened a new world of opportunity for children with mental and physical handicaps . |
| 30 | 4.1 The Assessment Procedures sections of the modules have been updated to show clearly defined performance criteria , standard use of terminology for instruments of assessment , detailed assessment specifications and performance levels . |