Example sentences of "a [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At stake are not only the interests of potential motorway users and of persons whose land might be compulsorily acquired to provide a route for the motorway ; also involved are the inhabitants of villages and towns which will be relieved of through-traffic by the motorway ; British Rail may have an interest in inhibiting the development of alternative means for the transport of goods ; improved transport and communications facilities provided by the motorway may benefit some businesses at the expense of others ; and motorways have , of course , serious environmental effects which lovers of the countryside and people who live near the proposed route will be anxious to avoid . |
| 2 | Bridging precariously above the protruding spike concentrates your mind wonderfully on the old cliche — ‘ not a route for the married man ’ ! |
| 3 | Surgical drains are placed by the surgeon into the wound and provide a route for the exit of blood or body fluids which would otherwise prevent healing . |
| 4 | For example , we might suggest a route for the mains , and specify carriageway , verge or footpath , based on the results of our own surveys . |
| 5 | Er one mainly being the , the fact that we wanted an overall scheme to cover everybody , including , including a payment for the lowest paid labourer in the shop . |
| 6 | If in the judgment of the police authorities , formed reasonably and in good faith , the garrison was necessary for the protection of life and property , then they were not entitled to make a charge for it , for that would be to exact a payment for the performance of a duty which they clearly owed to the appellants and their servants ; but if they thought the garrison a superfluity and only acceded to Mr. James 's request with a view to meeting his wishes , then in my opinion they were entitled to treat the garrison duty as special duty and to charge for it … … . |
| 7 | Often local pubs serve as a base for the local community : as Neil Richardson pointed out in CAMRA 's Pub Preservation report of 1980 , ‘ The pub is first and foremost a social centre , the best ever invented … |
| 8 | Next wind some tape through the slots and around the core to provide a base for the pickup windings . |
| 9 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 10 | Since the working class is the largest group and the group which concerned the educational reformers of 1944 , it is the natural choice of a base for the class variable . |
| 11 | Plymouth is a base for the Royal Navy , making , repairing and servicing warships and training their crews . |
| 12 | Doug Mills , 49 , landlord of The Golden Ball — used as a base for the police operation — said : ‘ Customers told me he had done several tours of Northern Ireland during his service . |
| 13 | They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play . |
| 14 | Such is the case : Ullapool was designed by a Fisheries Association in 1788 as a base for the herring industry and today the centre of activity is still the splendid harbour , a place of boats and bustle and screaming seagulls . |
| 15 | The 4GL runs on top of multiple databases , including Oracle , Informix , Ingres and Sybase , as well as the Cobol-based flat file systems that still act as a base for the majority of installations out there . |
| 16 | Stockings that were past repair were used as a base for the new victory roll hairstyle . |
| 17 | But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion . |
| 18 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 19 | The Soviet Military Encyclopedia in 1978 defined a neutral or neutralised zone as a defined geographical region in which by international agreement ( or the unilateral decision of a state to which this region belongs ) ‘ the preparation of military operations ’ is prohibited , and which ‘ can not be used as a theatre of military operations or a base for the conduct of war ’ . |
| 20 | The main focus of the statement was on the need to guarantee peace through enhanced regional economic integration in order to achieve " a process at the national and regional level which permits an accelerated reconstruction and transformation of production and technology of the Central American countries as a base for the efficient and dynamic insertion of the region into the world market " . |
| 21 | In 1983 the company purchased the Palace Theatre in London for £12.3 million , both as a commercial theatre , and as a base for the organisation although a new company headquarters in the West End has recently been purchased for £3.3 million . |
| 22 | In and near Moscow are a number of other monasteries and churches built between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries , all of Byzantine character but displaying individually Russian features particularly in the domes and the stepped ogee , triangular and rounded shell formations ( called kokoshniki ) which topped the main building and acted as a base for the tower or cupola drums . |
| 23 | It was also a base for the campaigns first in Gallipoli and later in Palestine . |
| 24 | The Convention also includes , in Article 14 , a provision for the compulsory settlement of disputes by arbitration , at the request of either of the parties in dispute . |
| 25 | Richardson , Texas-based Micrografx Inc warns that it has uncovered corporate funds mismanagement in its Japanese subsidiary Micrografx , KK which may result in a loss of $500,000 , and it will likely take a provision for the non-recurring loss in the fourth quarter ; the company further realigned its worldwide operations to respond to changes in software purchasing trends and the costs of marketing products and services and expects to report a loss for the fiscal . |
| 26 | It was agreed that it would be impossible to draft the title of the Bill in such a way as to exclude an amendment to abolish capital punishment , and that it would be unconvincing to argue that the inclusion in the Bill of a provision for the abolition of capital punishment would be inappropriate . |
| 27 | Just as the greater includes the less , so a provision for the marginal case must include the central case . |
| 28 | making a provision for the managers of tomorrow ; and |
| 29 | The completion balance sheet will include a provision for the audit of the completion accounts . |
| 30 | The completion balance sheet will include a provision for the audit of the completion accounts . |