Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might argue , albeit anachronistically , that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge . |
| 2 | there and then , now if we 're talking about closing for a minute , right |
| 3 | So next time you 're thinking of reaching for the tablets or slumping miserably into despair , try having a good laugh instead . |
| 4 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 5 | Much effort has been invested in searching for the most suitable counselling model . |
| 6 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 7 | It is also hard to move without being promoted , so if you do not want more administrative responsibility , or are not promotion material , again you are inhibited from searching for a more congenial workplace . |
| 8 | Giardia infection can be diagnosed by looking for the parasite in the stools . |
| 9 | But dietary pathogens can be traced by looking for a match between the geographical distribution of a disease and the consumption of various food-stuffs . |
| 10 | Consideration should be given to arranging for a banker 's guarantee in the firm 's favour . |
| 11 | A sense of movement may be given by scoring for an instrument such as the harp or celesta which can play scales or arpeggios against the static background . |
| 12 | Composers of new hymn tunes should be discouraged from writing for a traditional text which is either wedded to a well-loved tune or has more than one good tune to which it may be sung . |
| 13 | Ideologically you may be committed to working for the NHS . |
| 14 | There are two approaches which can be adopted to charging for the service : |
| 15 | The structure plan can not be seen for providing for a major or sudden change in direction . |
| 16 | Obviously , sorting out the courses which are on offer can best be done by writing for the prospectus but with any application the question that will be of overriding importance is how you are going to finance your training . |
| 17 | The objective is to make sure that the needs of individual students can be met by arranging for the research to be directed by experienced members of staff actively interested in the chosen topic who will be the supervisors . |
| 18 | Furthermore , despite a recent recovery , the fact that the value of our investments fell very sharply in the calendar year illustrates that we are certainly not insulated from our country 's economic problems ; this must never be overlooked in planning for the future . ’ |
| 19 | SSAP 15 is amended by the insertion of an additional paragraph after paragraph 32 and before paragraph 33 as follows : ‘ 32A Not withstanding the other requirements of this Statement of Standard Accounting Practice , either the full provision basis or the partial provision basis may be used in accounting for the deferred tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits accounted for in accordance with SSAP 24 ’ Accounting for pension costs ’ and UITF 6 ’ Accounting for post-retirement benefits other than pensions ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Submitting ’ to the experience is a necessary step which a participant may be deterred from taking for a number of reasons , particularly if he has too great a vested interest in the subject-matter or in his own reputation . |
| 21 | But in years 4 and 5 , the years that in other schools would be devoted to working for the GCSE with continuously assessed course-work , and when the TVEI scheme would also be introduced , we are told nothing whatever about examinations , only that the pupils will not have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 22 | JACQUES DELORS , President of the European Commission , told West Germany that its hopes for reunification would best be served by working for a more federal Community , implying that this might one day embrace East Germany . |
| 23 | There are many problems still to be overcome in providing for the disabled . |
| 24 | Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin . |
| 25 | Since she is not to discuss the faults of the particular man involved , nor is there anything to be gained by arguing for the uninspiring Dusterandus , Leapor attempts to convince her friend that marriage per se is risky , even if there is some chance of a happy outcome : |
| 26 | For , despite his explicit recognition that ‘ writing is not a monolithic entity ’ and that ‘ in the study of behaviour , there are few , if any ‘ sufficient causes ’ ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) , Goody can quite legitimately be charged with arguing for the ‘ autonomy ’ of literacy and with reducing its significance — as the ‘ technology of the intellect ’ — to a kind of technological determinism . |
| 27 | The long punters will have plenty of sport with that one though there could be considerable confusion at a quick kick where the revised law says that it may be taken without waiting for the kicker 's team to retire behind the ball — provided they do not become involved in play . |
| 28 | The half-stepping scheme is therefore a useful compromise , since the Vo/V1 ratio is not too high and reasonable damping can be achieved by arranging for the motor to come to rest at positions where two phases are excited . |
| 29 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 30 | Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter . |