Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table IV shows the rates of sickness absence by grade after adjusting for the health related behaviours ( smoking habits and frequency of alcohol consumption ) , ethnic group , work characteristics , and social circumstances outside work which predicted rates of sickness absence . |
| 2 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |
| 3 | Yet before we do so , it would be as well to see just how far formal , purely linguistic rules can go in accounting for the way one sentence succeeds another . |
| 4 | None of us were allowed to see the unfinished article , which was being built in one of the lecture rooms in our barrack block ; the rest of us were involved in practising for the midnight mass carol concert where our section would be providing the choir . |
| 5 | Because one 's involved whether one likes it or not , just by caring for the person concerned . ’ |