Example sentences of "[verb] for [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 3 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 4 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 5 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 6 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 7 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 8 | ADEMA captured 76 of the 116 seats voted for by the internal electorate ; 13 seats were reserved for Malians abroad . |
| 9 | If the record is not on the centre track the first or last track will be searched , depending on a comparison of the key being looked for with the highest key on the track . |
| 10 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 11 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |
| 12 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 13 | This meant that a decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |
| 14 | Some members of the Committee moved that the school stay open , on the grounds that short-term financial gain would not be compensated for by the long-term loss to the community . |
| 15 | The even more rapid decline in the two-party vote in Britain is to some extent compensated for by the increased vote for the smaller parties since the 1970s , but in the United States the proportion of the electorate mobilized by the parties is almost certainly even smaller because of the growing number of single-issue pressure groups in recent years . |
| 16 | Any loss in emotional or dramatic range , however , is generally compensated for by the fearsome intensity of the vision that results , and the compelling stylishness with which it is communicated . |
| 17 | This was the outcome of changes in population growth and its age distribution which were only partly compensated for by the marked increase in female participation ratios , especially of those in the 25–60 age groups [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 18 | While some forms of employment in the area have declined ( for example , in the railway workshops ) , they have been more than compensated for by the high technology boom and its associated distribution and service industries . |
| 19 | The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door . |
| 20 | Bouncing the rhythm and lead guitars and reprocessing them was , I admit , a bit over the top but , even so ( apart from a slight dulling of the sound , easily compensated for in the final mix ) , I thought the results were very good . |
| 21 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 22 | H pylori was stained for by the modified Giemsa method . |
| 23 | Kapellan ( 5.22 ) , overdue for a win , should be worth waiting for in the last race at Hove today . |
| 24 | The Intor work could form the basis of the ‘ Next European Tokamak ’ called for in the 1982–1986 fusion research programme of the European Economic Community . |
| 25 | Several items called for in the Digital Servo Interface are ‘ specials ’ and will not be available locally . |
| 26 | A considerable injection of resources will be required to provide the managerial and technological expertise called for in the White Paper . |
| 27 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 28 | Woosnam has chosen the sort of meal which he would probably plump for at the Golden Lion : leek and potato soup , Welsh lamb with mint sauce , Eve 's ( apple ) pudding , cheese and biscuits , coffee . |
| 29 | Whatever your taste , you will find it well catered for in the Big Heart of England . |
| 30 | But hear Richards : ‘ Ewbank 'd inside and Atco 'd outside , the English suburban residence , and the garden which is an integral part of it , stand trim and lovingly cared for in the mild sunshine . |