Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He complained that recruitment was being carried out under the banner of a management consultancy service without being accounted for or charged for separately . |
| 2 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 3 | For only in the formal processes of the courts was there any common alternative to the use of force ; and in most European countries throughout the period of this book kings and their officers had the greatest difficulty in preventing might from proving stronger than right : disorder was endemic , justice weak — but none the less sought after and admired for being in short supply . |
| 4 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |
| 5 | The number of enquiries which a bureau receives can not be a measure of the value of or need for the service . |
| 6 | Once it has occurred , the analyst connects the feature in question with his impression of or feeling for the whole work , and may be led to modify this as a result . |
| 7 | A rehabilitated person is one who has been convicted of and sentenced for an offence or offences and who has not committed a further offence or offences during the appropriate rehabilitation period and that period has expired . |
| 8 | From the 1860s , however , growing numbers of those who had no desire to question or to alter the nature of the economic system became uneasy about the prevailing diagnosis of the causes of and cure for poverty . |
| 9 | In this state his spirit was said to fly to the other world of spirits and there discover the cause of and cure for a person 's illness , the identity of a malefactor , or the nature of events destined to occur . |
| 10 | Upon termination of the retainer , the client is entitled to be handed back all relevant papers ( ie documents prepared by the solicitor for the benefit of and paid for by the client , eg instructions to counsel , copy letters to third parties etc , and documents prepared by a third party during the retainer and sent to the solicitor other than at the latter 's expense , eg vouchers for the solicitor 's disbursements ) and other property which may be in the solicitor 's possession , though the solicitor does have a lien in respect of his unpaid costs . |
| 11 | As President of Haringey AC , Ron Pickering showed his love of and feel for grass roots athletics by building the club from obscurity to greatness , partly through encouraging young black athletes to realise their potential . |
| 12 | Sometimes it is manifested in an exaggeration of previous dependency when problems arise ; sometimes , with strangers , excessive expectations of and need for support arise from these earlier relationships ( 'My husband waited on me hand and foot . ' ) |
| 13 | On his ‘ Big Red Train Ride ’ in 1977 , Eric Newby found these class approaches to the catching of and waiting for the trains , which have been such a characteristic of colonial societies in India and Africa , still very much the norm in the communist countries . |
| 14 | One reason is that current account flows no longer dominate the supply of and demand for currencies , and that capital transactions have assumed a greater relative importance . |
| 15 | There was a rapid increase in the output of journals and books and in the range of and demand for newspapers . |
| 16 | Along the horizontal axis are measured the supply of and demand for labour in the ith market , and respectively . |
| 17 | Hence , no matter how competitive labour and commodity markets are ( Keynes assumed perfect competition in the former and allowed for a high degree of competition in the latter ) , imbalances between the supply of and demand for labour would not be rectified through spontaneous variations in the real wage rate . |
| 18 | Consider Figure 7.2 in which the logarithm of the absolute price level , p , is measured on the vertical axis and the logarithms of the supply of and demand for output are measured on the horizontal axis . |
| 19 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 20 | A report published today by the Audit Commission says local authorities are fighting a losing battle to bridge the gap between supply of and demand for rented accommodation . |
| 21 | The poems are full of imagery of and praise for the Bible : |
| 22 | What it means to think of and work for an audience . |
| 23 | Short-term wage work is work that is paid for and contracted for a specific period of time , whether that be a day or a season . |
| 24 | A hard-earned trophy fought for and suffered for . |
| 25 | to contribute to understanding of the economic factors influencing the demand for and supply for adult vocational training |
| 26 | On check-out the group leader will hand the reception manager a copy of this voucher detailing all the charges the tour operator will be responsible for and signed for by the group leader . |
| 27 | There will always be the need for and demand for independent specialist advocacy and advisory services . |
| 28 | I mean , I expect she knew how you felt about the only things worth having being the things you 'd worked hard for and earned for yourself , so you would n't want her to leave you the house ] But she did n't want you to think she 'd forgotten you , or that she was just being spiteful , or something … ’ |
| 29 | Third , the goods produced by bureaus are public goods in the sense that they are unlikely to be provided if charged for and offered for sale . |
| 30 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |