Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Bush called for greater funding for housing for the poor and for inner city redevelopment .
2 The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution .
3 But two entirely new yards were opened towards the end of the decade , showing that BR envisages at least some need for shunting for the foreseeable future !
4 Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason .
5 Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract .
6 In October 1966 George Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison after serving nearly five years of a 42 year sentence of imprisonment for spying for the Soviet Union .
7 Acute grief at the death of one parent may inhibit a family for caring for the surviving spouse .
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