Example sentences of "as [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus far , the effective popularisation of basic Keynesian arguments would help strengthen a socialist case for the social planning of investment as in the interests of workers , both immediately ( in terms of employment prospects and living standards ) and in their capacity as savers for the future . |
| 2 | He had left Najaf in 1977 , finding asylum in France and a new operational base from which to beam his messages to the populace , such as calls for the creation of the revolutionary ‘ komitehs ’ that sprang up ‘ in many parts of the capital ’ and appeals to the army to desert . |
| 3 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 4 | Examples of works which fall into this category are : documents produced using a word processing system ; CAD ( computer aided designs ) such as plans for a house or a new car body panel ; music written using a program designed to assist with the composition of the music ( as opposed to a program designed to write music ) ; and an accounts report produced using a spreadsheet program . |
| 5 | In classical literature , certain fairies acted as guardians for different gods . |
| 6 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
| 7 | Carol will be happy to receive news of former students and provide information such as activities for graduates . |
| 8 | Indeed , Fullan identified several other important ideas ; time and change , leadership and change , meaning and change , and the tension between grandeur and incrementalism as strategies for development . |
| 9 | Animals live in populations that are dispersed in characteristic ways in the environment , ways that can usually be interpreted as a function of the behaviour of individual members operating as strategies for survival and reproduction . |
| 10 | The choice may be quite temporary and for limited purposes — using contingent loyalties as strategies for action . |
| 11 | The answer is none of these things have been undertaken as strategies for the church . |
| 12 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 13 | The severed heads might have continued being put on spikes as trophies for a start . |
| 14 | The residuals from the fitted line can be thought of as values for a variable which have been adjusted to take the explanatory variable into account . |
| 15 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 16 | With this assumption in mind Gorbachev told the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1985 that ‘ the newly independent countries do not want to be regarded any longer as objects for profit-making and for installing military bases and strongpoints in their territories ’ . |
| 17 | During a stay in Italy de Superville produced 2,500 or so drawings of Tuscan , Umbrian and Roman works of art , intended to be used as illustrations for a history of art . |
| 18 | More to the point , they vote as proxies for private shareholders who typically deposit their shares in the bank 's custody . |
| 19 | Solar irradiance fluctuations have been proposed as a possible explanation for these discrepancies , and various solar properties ( for example , radius , smoothed sunspot number or cycle length ) have been suggested as proxies for solar irradiance variations in the absence of direct data . |
| 20 | However , if the above criticism of the partial equilibrium model is put to one side , the implication of Roll 's work is that the only valid test is one in which the various market indices , which are used as proxies for the market portfolio , are examined to see if they are mean variance efficient . |
| 21 | The monkeys had to be deprived of their regular food and accustomed to the peanuts for weeks before they would take them with any readiness , let alone treat the nuts as rewards for appropriate behaviour . |
| 22 | So remember to treat yourselves , perhaps slowly saving up and buying a present for yourself or doing things you enjoy , as rewards for your achievements . |
| 23 | Subsidies would be far better utilised as rewards for environmentally friendly farming methods or for protecting the countryside . |
| 24 | That 's what the work force would like as rewards for the desired behaviour , was consumer durables . |
| 25 | It would be usual in this connection for partners to be expressly permitted to act as solicitors for their own families free of charge except for any disbursements or out of pocket expenses incurred by the firm ( Clause 13.05 ) ; ( 3 ) requiring each partner to be responsible for the prompt discharge of his separate obligations and to indemnify his co-partners should circumstances ever arise in which they could be made liable for the same . |
| 26 | This situation and its controversies have continued , but in general , from the eighteenth century , increasingly specialized academies came through as institutions for teaching many of the arts . |
| 27 | Large numbers of Shiluk who had fled their southern homeland were working as labourers for Sabaha farmers in the Kosti area . |
| 28 | Sometimes there are combinations and variations on the above , such as requests for part payments or for time to pay . |
| 29 | In that way the Court was perhaps the institution which most successfully stamped its imprint upon the ECSC , and in so doing built up a body of case law , an authority , and legitimacy that could serve as foundations for the future . |
| 30 | The mergers agreement , and progress on a range of other single market issues such as rules for public procurement , the harmonisation for testing and market veterinary medicines and the labelling of irradiated food , were seen as a triumph for the French presidency of the EC Council of Ministers which has ensured that the legislative timetable for the 1992 single market remains on course . |