Example sentences of "as [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He intervened on ‘ big ’ issues or government initiatives ( such as applying for membership of the EEC , and incomes policy , defence , and foreign and Commonwealth matters ) . |
| 2 | It is easy to assume that the law about planning new developments , or changing the environment around us , only affects us when we need to take a positive step — such as applying for permission to extend our own property . |
| 3 | Similarly , if one is being asked a series of routine questions for some purpose such as applying for an insurance policy , one might reply to each question of a series like ‘ Have you ever been in prison ? ’ , |
| 4 | Evidence of malice in the mode of publication is illustrated by wider dissemination of the statement than is necessary , such as shouting for others to overhear , or sending an open postcard instead of a closed letter . |
| 5 | As I will indicate , black sportsmen of distinction wield considerable influence , often unknown to them , and unwittingly act as lures for black kids , as Bill Richmond probably did in the late eighteenth century , not only in the United States , but in England too . |
| 6 | Fundamental considerations , such as looking for stocks which will beneift from sterling 's weakness , are out of the window , ’ said one bemused dealer . |
| 7 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 8 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 9 | In this sort of situation the local Social Services Department may be able to help you with many practical problems , such as caring for a dependent relative . |
| 10 | Much of women 's rural work , such as caring for poultry , milking and craftwork within the home is not included , as men are registered as the family breadwinners , as farmers , and women as housewives . |
| 11 | In this sort of situation the local Social Services Department may be able to help with many practical problems , such as caring for a dependent relative . |
| 12 | A checker that detects errors simply by lexical look-up will obviously fail to spot ‘ real world ’ errors , such as wether for whether , i.e. where a misspelling has transformed one English word into another . |
| 13 | It looks like that not really a great deal of account has been taken of the extra costs that are incurred by visually handicapped people in courses of study , such as paying for er expensive , extremely expensive , computing equipment which is n't a luxury , it 's a necessity quite often for many people , especially doing science courses . |
| 14 | Can I take it from what you said Professor Lock that you would envisage this policy as providing for B one B two and B eight development ? |
| 15 | Phrases such as striving for the setting up of a ‘ Workers ’ republic' and the establishment of ‘ public ownership ’ were excised , as they were seen by the members of an affiliated teachers ' union , and ultimately by the bishops , to counter church doctrine ( Whyte 1980 : 82–4 ; Keogh 1982 : 7 , 77 n.5 ) . |
| 16 | Obviously , the adventurers may try elaborate or complicated ploys here such as calling for a blessing , Dispel Magic spells , and so on . |
| 17 | Advocacy projects are beginning to emerge , with young-old people often acting as advocates for people with illnesses like dementia or stroke who can not articulate their needs . |
| 18 | In addition , general practitioners sometimes act as advocates for the community , meeting with local officials to try to promote improvements in sanitation and basic infrastructure . |
| 19 | Encourage all those who act as advocates for the oppressed within our society and who seek to channel political power into the cause of justice for everyone . |
| 20 | Training sessions VOLUNTEERS are needed to act as advocates for people with mental health problems . |
| 21 | There are many more , such as negotiating for musical employment in holiday centres or on ships . |
| 22 | They have an influence on an intellectual scene which encompasses a whole host of lesser thinkers , and they act as focuses for movements of thought which find powerful expression in them before passing on , often changed , or with added force . |
| 23 | Local centres , professionally staffed , were set up in many LEAs to act as focuses for the dissemination of each project 's materials . |
| 24 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 25 | SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY face a forward crisis as prepare for their UEFA Cup clash with Kaiserslautern . |
| 26 | By " trades " I mean ways of making a living , such as burrowing for worms , digging for ants , chasing large herbivores , eating leaves up trees . |
| 27 | ‘ We should ask national income estimators conceptual questions such as : which of the activities a farm family does for itself without payment , such as haircutting for example , have you included in the national income ? ’ , says a leading development economist ( Seers 1979 : 15 ) . |
| 28 | Clark Gable , Errol Flynn , Adolph Menjou — these are not the kind of men to serve as archetypes for celibate priests . |
| 29 | There are anti-avoidance provisions which prevent you gaining from cunning manoeuvres such as arranging for different companies within your employer 's group each to contribute a share of the total pay-out ; if this is done , all the sums will be aggregated . |
| 30 | when the receiver 's come in and all that , she 'd never put Linda down as working for her , so she got no redundancy pay ! |