Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] for [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sensitivity to oil fumes , coal smoke , paraffin fumes and other odours from heating systems can be tested for in the same way . |
| 2 | An excess of gain even at low settings ( ie. from an active bass with powerful pickups ) can be compensated for with the lower of the two white switches , which operates a 15dB attenuation ‘ pad ’ to clean up the signal . |
| 3 | Losses which can be claimed for under the Act are death , personal injuries and any loss of or damage to property ( s. 5(1) ) . |
| 4 | During the day , the Acropolis is not to be missed and souvenirs can be bartered for in the Flea market . |
| 5 | This can be allowed for by the winch or car driver reducing the power slightly . |
| 6 | This ambiguity can be accounted for without the need either for two different elements enter , or two different elements again , if we regard the meaning of enter as being constituted out of more elementary semantic entities which are related quasi-syntactically : |
| 7 | And the same change throughout the industry can be accounted for by the functional fact that only those firms which made this change would have survived the competition . |
| 8 | Much of what has been considered to be poststructuralism 's wild disregard for history can be accounted for by the fact that it was operating within this — largely unknown outside France — anti-empiricist and anti-positivist tradition . |
| 9 | The radical simplification of forms which characterizes the painting can be accounted for by the fact that this was one of the first canvases in which Braque attempted to work from memory . |
| 10 | Most adenocarcinomas of the oesophagus , however , arise in CLO that is already established and the disparity between incidence and prevalence can be accounted for by the high proportion of the population with unrecognised disease , up to 20 times that of those detected . |
| 11 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 12 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |