Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedure was designed to compensate for the fact that the electoral register is not a very complete list of individuals ; it therefore depended on whether the adults resident had changed since the register was compiled . |
| 2 | The level of futures price was included to control for the possibility that , as the futures price rises , its variance also rises . |
| 3 | Those prepared to fight for the principle that stories which advance the public interest should be published are usually vindicated . |
| 4 | The latest item of aggravation comes from the traffic and drivers on the commuter rail line who have threatened to strike for the day because of the extra work caused by the opening of Disney station . |
| 5 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 6 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 7 | STEVE OJOMOH flies to Lanzarote with the England squad this week sensing he is fated to play for the country that tried to deport him . |
| 8 | Part of the Christian 's responsibility is to understand and be able to express what and why he believes or , as the apostle Peter expressed it , ‘ Be always ready with your defence whenever you are called to account for the hope that is in you . ’ |
| 9 | Authorities concerned over rural depopulation have attempted to provide for the consumer and cultural needs of rural dwellers , but the drift has persisted . |
| 10 | A new range of private law orders was introduced to provide for the care and upbringing of children . |
| 11 | More recent work has attempted to allow for the fact that holders of money balances may switch into a whole spectrum of assets , such as equities , trade bills and certificates of deposit . |
| 12 | As the ideology of motherhood strengthened during the early twentieth century in response to the high infant mortality rate and the implications it was feared to have for the health and welfare of an imperial nation , so the pressures exerted on working class mothers increased . |
| 13 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 14 | Others have set up one-year and two-year training courses in church planting , encouraging those being trained to pay for the privilege and so contributing to the financing of church planting , as well as providing workers in training . |
| 15 | Centres approved to offer the unit were asked to tender for the pilot and Stevenson College , Anniesland College and QTAC , the business arm of Fife College , were selected to run it . |
| 16 | Three firms of Mechanical Engineers have been asked to tender for the machinery and steelwork under conditions embodied in a Specification of Terms , a copy of which is hereto appended . |
| 17 | It may be , then , that there is a distinction between the two cases and that , notwithstanding the later doubts expressed in Hills v. Ellis , Willmott v. Atack should be taken to stand for the proposition that a person who interferes with the police intending to help them is not guilty of a wilful obstruction . |
| 18 | The total of these requirements — some of which will be spread over several years — will give a good indication as to how much you have left to offer for the freehold or rent . |
| 19 | The pricing relation is where the cost function has been extended to allow for the fact that X and Y are now used as intermediate goods . |
| 20 | The minor age differences between zircons and other kimberlite minerals may result from the second magmatic pulse required to account for the disruption and deformation of MARID nodules before they are incorporated in the final erupted kimberlite . |