Example sentences of "for [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They called for monthly limits for Nox emissions from a variety of solid fuels , with the highest being 400 mg per cubic metre .
2 For NOx reductions of 80 per cent or more , the USA , Japan and West Germany have opted for SCR ( selective catalytic reduction ) , in which ammonia is injected into the superheated region of a boiler or outside it , in a catalyst bed at around half the cost of FGD .
3 Our illustrious and perfectly formed editor has agreed to set aside one page of the magazine for prayer requests concerning missionaries and missionary endeavour .
4 Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire .
5 The usual order is judgment for arrears of rent to date of termination of the tenancy , and for mesne profits to date of hearing and thereafter mesne profits at a daily rate and ( almost invariably calculated by reference to the rent ) from the date of hearing until actual possession is given up .
6 The new text of Article 92 , quoted above , now explicitly gives the member states leeway for support measures with specifically cultural objectives .
7 Timber was in high demand for building ships for the British Navy and many fine trees were felled .
8 The use of filamentous bacteriophage has even led to strategies for building antibodies in bacteria and improving their binding affinities , and so by-passing immunisation 4,5 .
9 Among his public works ( mentioned in Elucidario Madeirense by Silva and Meneses ) , he was responsible for building houses of refuge near the exposed mountain passes , and public fountains for thirsty travellers all over Funchal , at his own expense .
10 They had ideas for building houses from the roof downwards , turning rocks into soft material , making rivers run uphill , and saving sunshine in bottles .
11 The new release addresses some important developer issues like distributed schema for building families of applications in distributed environments .
12 There are also specialist CPO 's called ‘ Architectural Liaison Officers ’ who will look at planning applications for building projects like new shopping centres or housing developments .
13 She smiled at the slatterns too — why not ? — most of them living a little lower down the street , who , for one reason or another , had lost all taste for building edifices of any description , hanging on by the skin of such teeth as they had left , to a precarious existence of borrowing today to pay what one owed from yesterday and hoping that tomorrow would somehow take care of itself .
14 Atomstyle has been supplying the various bits for building PCs to dealers for quite some time by now , and so the cases and motherboards it supplies fit together really well .
15 SunVision functions will be offered as AVS modules and as portable libraries for building applications on Unix workstations which support AVS .
16 She could use the sugar she 'd got for building bricks for a new shed I reckon , the amount she 'd got there .
17 This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England .
18 They ask for pathology tests to be conducted by the local hospitals , they call on the community health services , and they refer patients to hospital for inpatient treatment .
19 Di was opening a care unit in Earl 's Court , London , for drug users with HIV .
20 They were also asked how many of those identified had sought medical treatment , counselling , or had been arrested for drug offences during that same period .
21 Two Lebanese-born financiers , Jean Magharian and Barkev Magharian , were each sentenced on Sept. 13 by a court in Bellinzona to four years ' imprisonment and a fine of SFr50,000 ( approximately US$39,000 ) for laundering SFr1,200 million ( US$933 million ) for drug operations in Turkey and Lebanon through Swiss banks .
22 The prison reform group says one problem is a lack of treatment for drug addicts in jail .
23 Altogether , says Mr De Benedetti , between 1988 and 1991 Olivetti paid just over 10 billion lire to Italy 's political parties in exchange for ministry contracts worth about 500 billion lire .
24 He came back with an exchange of letters , in which Eisenhower had agreed that Britain could buy Skybolt ; and , in return , Macmillan had accepted an American request for base facilities for US nuclear submarines at Holy Loch on the west coast of Scotland .
25 Following the simplification of dealings within the Group 's securities , it should be noted that holders of Ordinary Shares only , who wish to receive U.K. sourced dividends , must subscribe for Income Shares in Waterford Wedgwood U.K. plc and make a formal election to that effect in the ordinary way .
26 There has been a considerable fashion for functionalist accounts among Western Marxists , since an apparently more elegant intellectual apparatus than those of orthodox instrumentalists can be constructed .
27 JOHN MAJOR has announced a £1.5 billion cash advance for defence contracts between Britain and Saudi Arabia , a crucial step forward in the Al Yamamah oil-for-weapons programme on which 30,000 British jobs depend .
28 The agreements reached at Guam also linked US land claims for defence sites to further aid .
29 They will also run the plant providing enrichment for defence purposes until the end of the contract with the Ministry of Defence next year .
30 I would n't buy a Lowden LSE for four-on-the-floor bluegrass flatpicking , but for melody/fingerstyle techniques with jazz or Celtic influences , it 's a winner .
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