Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the person through whom all orders for purchases from project grants must pass , this is clearly a key position in the project 's structure . |
| 2 | President Assad visited Mubarak in Alexandria on Aug. 28 , after which both called for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal and a " restoration of legitimacy " in Kuwait . |
| 3 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 4 | Eventually perhaps , but a Senate hearing on June 22 on the proposal drew only two Senators , one of whom quickly departed for another engagement . |
| 5 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 6 | He may also wish to take in such oddities as the Bible in shorthand and , if he can find them , the portions published in the dialects : of Cornwall , Cumberland , Dorset , Durham , Devonshire , etc. , most of them privately printed for Prince Lucien Bonaparte , who included the Song of Solomon in twenty-four dialects among his list of nearly eighty publications , his English agent being Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly . |
| 7 | One of them reportedly calls for two months severance plus a month for every year worked . |
| 8 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 9 | There were people everywhere , hundreds of them , most of them beautifully dressed for the highlight of the midsummer festas . |
| 10 | The emphasis was now on the proliferation of high-capacity small-scale computers capable of greater versatility than the older machines , lending themselves to the formation of networks , and many of them deliberately designed for easy access , so that much of the mystique was being dispelled . |
| 11 | Thirty-one mosaics are listed below which together account for almost all significant remains of fourth century mosaic in the north east . |
| 12 | A news item in 1988 concerning a 590cm. ( approximately 19ft. ) long pilot whale washed up at Talland Bay recalls other sea mammals washed up on our coastline , one of which apparently qualified for a church burial . |
| 13 | I will remove my veils one by one , as I demolish , in turn , the proponents of these cardinal precepts of what today passes for Socialism in the People 's Party . ’ |
| 14 | Similarly , the TUC 's exclusive concentration on learning from experience in the workplace resembles much of what now passes for experience-based learning in progressive adult education elsewhere . |
| 15 | Therefore many of us anxiously wait for the latest anti-theft gadget . |
| 16 | None of us really knew for certain what had gone wrong , although , well , you could n't help putting two and two together . |
| 17 | Most of us only share for financial reasons . |
| 18 | In the best run schools there is a clear cut agenda for the staff meeting with a tight timetable and with everyone well prepared for the business of the meeting . |
| 19 | Chairman of my all of the offices or er tremendous amount of work which has gone into the local report to the Committee , er but also to the tremendous amount of work which has been done behind the scenes which I know has been going on with er that is quite good for the officers erm looking at the budget er i in the line with what actually saying for them . |
| 20 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 21 | But remember I depend upon you fitly to provide for her … |
| 22 | Now that is to paint a far wider duty than I had been er er er thought and indeed er those who follow these matters have suggested that 's rather wider than the than the er secondary legislation here before us actually provides for . |
| 23 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 24 | He chuckled to himself then reached for his cigarettes and lit one . |
| 25 | We have not come to you before to ask for people , but we are asking for people now . |
| 26 | Last year the student leaders were coming to him privately asking for his ideas . |
| 27 | A Highland pony could carry the average six foot man easily , but he would still look long legged on him even allowing for these ponies ' generous girths . |
| 28 | A Highland pony could carry the average six foot man easily , but he would still look long-legged on him even allowing for these ponies ’ generous girths . ’ |
| 29 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 30 | Erm we have always out any er leaflet erm clearly so that people to put their names on the register erm that is a statutory responsibility erm the expenditure in excess of what we had er done in the past is actually going to be a very very small amount of one officer 's time in redesigning the leaflet erm otherwise the expenditure will remain as it , as it always has for all intents and purposes and I think that answers your question if clearly you have problems about getting people on the electoral register that means there 's something about your own electoral . |