Example sentences of "[prep] [vb -s] for the " in BNC.

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1 In addition , general practitioners sometimes act as advocates for the community , meeting with local officials to try to promote improvements in sanitation and basic infrastructure .
2 Encourage all those who act as advocates for the oppressed within our society and who seek to channel political power into the cause of justice for everyone .
3 Local centres , professionally staffed , were set up in many LEAs to act as focuses for the dissemination of each project 's materials .
4 These birds would later peck a dry bead when offered it on test and therefore serve as controls for the methylanthranilate-trained group , for they had not learned to avoid the bead .
5 Twenty nine ( 19 male , 10 female ) normal healthy subjects served as controls for the SeHCAT test and 20 ( 10 male , 10 female ) were studied for comparison of serum 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one concentration .
6 Sixteen patients with the irritable bowel syndrome acted as controls for the 1 1 1 In leukocyte and 5 1 Cr red cell studies .
7 Twenty healthy white volunteers acted as controls for the intestinal permeability studies .
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