Example sentences of "for [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people have assisted in producing this report but we would especially like to thank Dave Maley of Falls Community Council for typesetting and designing the report . |
| 2 | Churches are best for prayer that have least light … . |
| 3 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 4 | Whom would he blame , and to whom would he turn for protection and comfort ? |
| 5 | Crossing the head of the ravine , he headed on up the meadow keeping within the treeline for protection and using the flashlight . |
| 6 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 7 | Fashioned from smoky green glass , tightly corked and wired , they would be packed with straw for protection and carried on wooden poles slotted through their individual baskets of woven metal . |
| 8 | The convention , drawn up in 1971 , requires signatories to list wetland sites for protection and notify the Ramsar bureau of any possible changes that could affect the sites ' ecosystems . |
| 9 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 10 | Poorer EC students will be able to apply for board and lodging grants as well as their fees , on the same basis as British students . |
| 11 | Nationally determined upper limits for board and lodging payments for physically disabled people in residential care homes are currently £60 higher than for older people . |
| 12 | You pay a small fee for board and lodging , and then find yourself doing things as varied as archeological digs in the West Country or maintaining the duckeries at Leeds Castle . |
| 13 | As a result , my telephone and fax bill is much greater than the bill for board and lodging . |
| 14 | Podder hit the board whilst batting in a match between Dingley Dell and Muggleton , and afterwards orally requested Pickwick to pay £%; to Mrs Jingle , to whom Podder was indebted for board and lodging . |
| 15 | Both Griffiths and the Audit Commission were critical of this expenditure which , they argued , cut across the declared policy of promoting community care , and in 1991 , in accordance with the Griffiths proposals , responsibility for board and lodging allowances will pass from the DSS to local authorities . |
| 16 | Much controversy has attached to the word ‘ servants ’ in this passage , as to whether it cancelled the previous Leveller insistence on full , unqualified adult manhood suffrage and was intended to exclude all wage-earners from the vote , or — more likely — was meant to cover only those living in , and so dependent on their master or mistress for board and lodging . |
| 17 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 18 | We would usually advise mucosectomy for dysplasia or coexisting colorectal cancer , however , as we do in polyposis . |
| 19 | Many companies and organisations throughout the world turned to AEA for consultancy and help during the past year . |
| 20 | They use their criticism not to refine plans for change but to block them . |
| 21 | Psychological and cultural differences were still thought to be grounded in biology ; indeed , Geddes and Thompson believed sex differences to be physiologically based , which held out even less possibility for change than did Spencer 's explanation based on evolution . |
| 22 | The idea of an underlying providential moral or natural order which the earthly order of things should attempt to express , it may be supposed , demonstrated the need for change while offering security and assurance about its legitimacy . |
| 23 | She fumbled for change and pressed the button for black coffee . |
| 24 | It will serve as a forum for business and community leaders to identify problems , set priorities , define strategies for change and divert resources accordingly " ( Department of Employment 1989 ) . |
| 25 | The British electorate — we have rolled forward to Friday — has opted for change and made a job of it , sweeping the Natural Law Party into power . |
| 26 | Anxiously we watch the skies for change and listen to the weather forecasts ; words like ‘ high pressure areas ’ , ‘ occlusions ’ , ‘ fronts ’ and ‘ anti-cyclones ’ intersperse the conversation when birdwatchers foregather . |
| 27 | She dived towards it , anxious some other would-be caller should not beat her to it and begin on one of those endless conversations the French seemed to have , searching through her pockets for change and trying to recall the International dialling code and the number of the line which connected direct with Nick 's office , bypassing the busy switchboard , all at the same time . |
| 28 | In the end a strange combination of working-class agitation and pressure from outside of the state system together with an increasingly confident upper-class establishment inside the system anticipating the pressures for change and trying to contain them both served to encourage the Conservatives to pass the Reform Act , 167 . |
| 29 | The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made . |
| 30 | Pluralism is insensitive , and inattentive , to the view from the bottom ; to the politics of the powerless ; to the ill-organised and unincorporated politics of movement , protest and riot ; and to the power of government and the state to rebuff demands for change and to destroy certain groups . |