Example sentences of "for [noun] [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to this decision Parliament hastily passed the War Damage Act 1965 with retrospective effect to deny entitlement to compensation for damage for acts lawfully done by the Crown during a war in which the Sovereign was engaged . |
| 2 | Moreover , it has the advantage of providing data down to the level of the individual enumeration district covering roughly 500 inhabitants , which , even if too small for certain purposes , can be treated as a building block for areas specially defined by the user ( Rhind , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | The Kuwaiti government used its funds to provide substantial assistance to the build-up of anti-Iraqi forces in the Gulf and to provide funding for countries adversely affected by the imposition of international sanctions against Iraq . |
| 4 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 5 | How is it that restorers seem unaware of the poetical use made of materials or the philosophical and existential reasons that have led contemporary artists to adopt synthetic , ephemeral and deliberately short-lived substances for compositions frequently accompanied by the casual and uninspiring caption ‘ Untitled ’ ? |
| 6 | This experience showed that the problems of many families had little to do with the actual wartime conditions which were only an additional stress for families already overwhelmed by financial , housing and emotional problems of their own . |
| 7 | Without any application to the court , the mortgagee , if his mortgage is a conveyance of the legal estate or ownership , may take possession ; but this course is hazardous , since he may be called upon in a redemption action to account strictly not only for profits actually received by him , but also for those which he might but for his default have received , and all such profits , so far as they exceed the interest due for the time being , must be set off against the principal . |
| 8 | Before long he is involved , through loyalty to a Spanish relative , in the vexed affairs of old Don Baltasar , whose seaboard estate is being used as a refuge for pirates secretly commanded by James O'Brien , a villain with a front as a respected official in the Jamaican government . |
| 9 | It is for people properly funded by a democratic enabling local state and under con , the control of those who have no pecuniary interest in the development of care . |
| 10 | Apart from their resident populations , over the years they have served as a ‘ dumping ground ’ for people forcibly removed by the South African government from ‘ white ’ areas . |
| 11 | We would also encourage any of you who may be thinking of starting to go ahead — in many areas the Local Authority will pay the fees for teachers already employed by them . |
| 12 | Many of their customers were being treated for diseases directly caused by their habit . |
| 13 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 14 | The type of support is not always perfectly clear in SCP programmes : for example , the extent to which the parent company is responsible for SCP formally issued by a subsidiary company may not always be clear . |
| 15 | Thus the BEA ( though still constrained by annual capital budgets agreed with the Ministry ) found its own task in meeting the satisfactorily buoyant demand for electricity less constrained by physical shortages . |
| 16 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor point also to the extravagant lengths , as they would put it , to which some of the United States decisions have gone and to the dangers of conflict between the mother and her child , with the child suing for damages for injuries allegedly caused by the negligence of the mother before the child 's birth . |
| 17 | Firms in the defence support field have been briefed by the Ministry of Defence that up to £1.2 billion of contracts for jobs currently run by the armed forces will be offered to civilian firms from April . |