Example sentences of "[verb] for [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the Audit Commission recommended that for mentally ill people the NHS should continue as the main authority responsible for care , but the possibility should remain for developing a central budget similar to that proposed for elderly people ; alternatively , the NHS should have the ability to purchase local authority services on a contractual basis . |
| 2 | The harp is here set to the dominant 7th in the key of E. Six bars ' rest provide time and to spare for setting the pedals . |
| 3 | A rival cheetah that does n't have such big leg muscles may not run quite so fast , but it has resources to spare for making an extra lot of milk and therefore perhaps rearing another cub . |
| 4 | Ralph Nader 's Study Group on Air Pollution estimated that the implementation phase would not be completed until well into the 1980s and the Air Quality Act was criticized for providing the Department of Health , Education and Welfare with only very limited powers to press the states into faster action . |
| 5 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had been criticized for risking the lives of six astronauts , merely to launch a satellite which could have been put into orbit more cheaply by an unmanned rocket . |
| 6 | Part of the problem may be that the Labour government of 1974–79 was unduly protecting jobs in northern nationalized industries , but Labour was then criticized for halting the growth of public-sector services . |
| 7 | ‘ Scientific management 's ’ mechanistic and materialistic model of the individual has been criticized for taking no account of other motives for work and , by implication , the diverse interests of which people might be conscious as members of groups and wish to protect and advance through group action . |
| 8 | She is often criticized for exercising a weaker voice than she ‘ should ’ but replies that those critics who live ‘ safe from midnight arrests and solitary confinement ’ are unreasonable in the extreme in calling for those in oppressed lands to take risks the critics themselves would avoid . |
| 9 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 10 | Cixous has been criticized for lacking a politics and a theory of the social . |
| 11 | The reshuffle , which included the addition of two new Cabinet posts , was criticized for enlarging the Cabinet at a time of economic hardship . |
| 12 | The decision in December 1989 to transform Noriega 's infamous Panamanian Defence Force ( FDP ) into a lightly armed Panamanian Public Force ( FPP ) under civilian control [ see also p. 37181 ] had been heavily criticized for leaving the government open to such paramilitary attacks and making it more dependent on the USA than before . |
| 13 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 14 | The government was criticized for referring an agreed bid , while leaving a hostile bid free to proceed . |
| 15 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 16 | However , it was criticized for continuing the country 's economic expansion programme — risking further damage to the environment and an increase in the gap between rich and poor — and for not offering concrete solutions or even new policy initiatives to tackle the country 's economic and social problems . |
| 17 | Morgenthau 's approach was also criticized for ignoring the domestic environment of states , for failing to specify whether human nature was the determining or merely one potential cause of political action , and for being unable to account for mistakes ( if human nature is based on objective laws , then how can individuals make mistakes ? ) . |
| 18 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , this view can be criticized for over-stressing the importance of local social relations , and for a rather restricted view of how these relations are translated into policy . |
| 19 | The role of the US embassy was also heavily criticized for withholding the evidence of at least one US military advisor who claimed to have had prior knowledge of the plan to kill the priests . |
| 20 | This is an extremely important result , both because of its policy implications which we shall consider later in this chapter and because of the scope it offers for testing the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 21 | If a procedure is prescribed for making the rule it must be followed , unless the procedure is directory rather than mandatory . |
| 22 | What kind of preparation do you normally make for starting a diet or healthier eating or new exercise regime ? |
| 23 | The ACLU also notes the inconssstency that an employee can be punished for smoking a joint on his summer holiday , which leaves a residue that can be detected for weeks , but not for getting drunk in the evening of a working day . |
| 24 | He was punished for publishing The Light and Dark Sides of God ( 1650 ) , copies of which were ordered to be burned , although George Thomason [ q.v. ] was still able to acquire a copy in November of the same year . |
| 25 | I am not aware of anyone being punished for speaking the Doric . |
| 26 | ‘ Can a man be punished for breaking a law if he does not know that it exists ? ’ |
| 27 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 28 | Occasionally the Lord Chancellor will publicly reprimand a judge , as happened in 1978 when Mr Justice Melford-Stevenson was rebuked for describing an Act of Parliament as a ‘ buggers ’ charter' . |
| 29 | The poor man frantically tried to bargain for his reinstatement , admitting that he had been not altogether sober and apologising for making a resignation he did not want . |
| 30 | Last week two nurses were sacked for dressing a pig 's head as a patient and parading it in front of acutely disturbed women . |