Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 61 | CAROL McDONALD After working for the Company as a Temporary Secretary for four months , Carol McDonald was appointed to the position of Clerkess in the Axminster and Wilton Yarn Preparation Office . |
| 62 | Frank Walker retired two years ago after working for the South Tees Health authority for 23 years . |
| 63 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 64 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 65 | I thought it was worth pushing for the extra I mean when he said a thousand , I thought it would be |
| 66 | She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it . |
| 67 | Most of these are well beyond binocular range , but it is worth looking for the ‘ Black-Eye ’ galaxy M64 , which is within a degree of the star 35 Comæ , not far from Alpha . |
| 68 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 69 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 70 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 71 | Instead of apologising for the article , the Mirror , in an act of ‘ pure undiluted hypocrisy ’ , published a second article ‘ Maggie 's Clay Test ’ and a leader on the subject the following day . |
| 72 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 73 | It will clearly be in the interest of the headtenant if the service charge is left out of account for the purposes of the rent review under the headlease . |
| 74 | Historically , this arrangement provided a residual form of financing for the government — meeting any financing requirement not satisfied by sales of other forms of debt . |
| 75 | It was too much , even for the sake of cooking for the Prince of Wales . |
| 76 | Yesterday we observed that Mr Jeffrey Archer ( whose idea of canvassing for the Tory Party has revived the lost art of burlesque ) had bet £10 that the Tories will win with a majority of 27 seats . |
| 77 | Moira Griffin , of Edgecombe Drive , explained that the death of a homeless man had given her the idea of knitting for the people who use the hostel . |
| 78 | Three hundred years of catering for the City of London were celebrated by Ring & Brymer at the Museum of London last week . |
| 79 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 80 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 81 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 82 | Havant take over the daunting task of challenging for the European Cup in Amsterdam , with Hounslow moving to the south of Holland to compete at Vught where a favourable draw puts them among the favourites to reach Monday 's final . |
| 83 | Lazio 's manager , Dino Zoff , says that Gascoigne is all he needs to have a team capable of challenging for the title . |
| 84 | In brief , if schematic knowledge is in short supply on a particular occasion , then the more we need to invoke systemic knowledge as a means of compensating for the deficiency and if we are thereby able to convert symbol to index , then the act of meaning negotiation itself has the effect of extending or altering the schematic knowledge we started with . |
| 85 | Far from being outdated , this old and broad conception of democracy holds out the only hope of compensating for the weaknesses of elected representative assemblies , dwarfed as they presently are by the bureaucratic and monopolistic structures of power which surround them . |
| 86 | In urban areas , where the range of health professionals at the primary care level is still variable , a fully multidisciplinary approach to the assessment and management of cases is a valuable means of compensating for the limitations of particular general practices . |
| 87 | A final group of approaches see football spectator disorder as a way of compensating for the loss of community caused by post-war industrial and urban development . |
| 88 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 89 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 90 | Few at this conference were a-quiver at the prospect of bidding for the Tilbury to Southend line . |