Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she is serious about knitting for other people she must do four things . |
| 2 | Evaluate the effectiveness of the plan for satisfying the medical , psychological , and personal needs of the patients and for catering for potential problems . |
| 3 | The store coach consisted of an office for the officer in charge , linen store , two store rooms for provisions , sleeping accommodation for chief steward and cook , and a large kitchen fitted with all accessories for cooking for 140 patients . |
| 4 | Well because I think a thanksgiving service for victory and for praying for those who 've died on both sides , I think that 's perfectly reasonable , but a victory parade , goodness a hundred thousand Iraquis died . |
| 5 | It 's also worth applying for other jobs that appeal and for which you might have a chance . |
| 6 | I have n't read such a self-consciously ‘ literary ’ book about climbing for some years , and that style came as a shock , perhaps even intrusion : |
| 7 | One of the results of the emphasis on remedies in administrative law is that the procedure for applying for these remedies is central to an understanding of the position of the public law litigant . |
| 8 | But because the declaration and injunction are remedies in private law as well as in public law , there are also procedures contained elsewhere in the Rules of the Supreme Court for applying for these remedies . |
| 9 | And it is worth pressing for two reasons . |
| 10 | If the person handling the matter seems to be relying on information given to him by others , it is worth pressing for full and frank disclosure of what they have said and for sight of any written statements or other relevant documents that may have been prepared . |
| 11 | In 1600–1 he was paid for surveying for New College , while in 1602 he mapped the Cambridgeshire estates of Merton College , and in 1607 he surveyed an estate in Leicestershire for Brasenose College . |
| 12 | By the way , friendly , protective neighbours are absolutely invaluable and well worth cultivating for that reason if no other . |
| 13 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 14 | On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water . |
| 15 | One of the other stock-market listed football clubs , Tottenham Hotspur , capitalises the cost of its players ' registrations and , after allowing for estimated residual values , amortises them over the period of the respective players ' contracts . |
| 16 | Figure 4.1 shows the growth in spending on private acute care in cash and real terms ( after allowing for general price inflation ) between 1972 and 1989 . |
| 17 | But , after allowing for fixed costs , the couple 's disposable income will be severely squeezed . |
| 18 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 19 | If the regulatory body does its sums correctly , it will then allow the monopolist to levy the minimum fixed charge necessary to ensure that the monopolist breaks even after allowing for all relevant economic costs . |
| 20 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
| 21 | British workers received a 9.3% pay rise in the 12 months to February , equivalent to a real pay increase of just 0.3% after allowing for consumer-price inflation . |
| 22 | If a mispricing remained after allowing for one of three different levels of transactions costs , this constituted a signal to engage in arbitrage . |
| 23 | But post GATT the occupier 's surplus from arable farming falls to £1500 and after allowing for other income total income would be only about £4000 . |
| 24 | The survey data also allow us to explore whether , after allowing for other identifiable differences in the characteristics of male and female workers , the labour market during the 1970s appeared to discriminate against young women compared to their male contemporaries . |
| 25 | In contrast the trend in cardiovascular mortality with head circumference ( table I ) remained significant after allowing for external conjugate diameter . |
| 26 | In our example , the London couple will experience a relatively modest decline of 5 p.c. in its after tax income after allowing for higher child benefit under Labour . |
| 27 | After allowing for this subsidence there are no significant residual gravity changes between June 1991 and June 1992 , except at the summit crater where there was a decrease of 80μGal . |
| 28 | ‘ He found , after allowing for some 37 factors not related to lead , ’ says Price , ‘ that those children having high lead levels in their teeth did significantly less well in tests than did those with low levels . ’ |
| 29 | Although we are unable to ascertain the price increases for the various insurance companies in Northern Ireland and Great Britain as we can in the Republic of Ireland , nevertheless our research does indicate that even after allowing for these rate increases the cumulative increase for Autocover in Northern Ireland and Great Britain since the commencement of the scheme is significantly less than the average increase charged by most other insurance companies during the same period . |
| 30 | The level of funding was sufficient to cover 100 per cent of the benefits that had accrued to members after allowing for expected future pay increases . |