Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include what they think valuable or worth striving for — ‘ ideology ’ , in brief . |
| 2 | Rye may be grown as a zing crop or for threshing for human or animal feed . |
| 3 | These subjects had an examination for evaluation of occult blood , positive stools or for screening for colon cancer , or both . |
| 4 | His decision to take a year off from international rugby has left selectors with the difficult choice of going for a short-term replacement or of opting for long-term continuity . |
| 5 | Members of Schedule I have been given a choice of remaining in that Schedule with an NRA of 60 , or of opting for the new , improved , Schedule II . |
| 6 | When such means failed the extended family gave support most often in the form of food or of caring for some children of the family until a crisis was over , or permanently if it was sustained . |
| 7 | There is no intrinsic benefit gained from paying farmers not to produce food , or from paying for food to be stored and destroyed rather than sold at a fair market price . |
| 8 | Or to Angmering for that matter . ’ |
| 9 | This amendment should ensure that there is a majority of elected members serving on the police authority , either by retaining the present two-thirds requirements , or by providing for a simple majority and they give two main reasons . |
| 10 | This loss of immunoreactivity in serum and urine can be prevented by the addition of 20 mM zinc acetate or by boiling for 10 minutes . |
| 11 | For which you auditioned with your drama school prepared pieces or by reading for the part ? |
| 12 | Similar to Bills of Exchange , it is possible to either roll over the debt by replacing a Note with another of longer tenor , or by asking for the payee 's consent to the extension of the maturity date . |
| 13 | ( Remember that after allowing for drift , the wind angle will be changed and a slight adjustment may be necessary in assessing the new wind angle ) . |
| 14 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
| 15 | Overall , however , the work done by Box and Hale for England and Wales suggests that after controlling for other relevant variables , rising levels of unemployment have been associated with the increased use of imprisonment . |
| 16 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 17 | The latest capital spending review could result in a near 20 p.c. cut in total investment to $6½ billion ( £3.7 billion ) against $8 billion ( £4.6 billion ) last year although after allowing for the purchase of Petromed in Spain the figure is nearer 7 p.c . |
| 18 | Welfare feminists were concerned with the health and welfare of working-class women , especially the relief of their poverty , rather than with pressing for changes in the role of women in the family . |
| 19 | If they fear that in calling for quiet , and seeking to ensure it where the subject declines to desist , they might themselves be the objects of violence , the offence is made out . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is plausible that in looking for a way to relate a proper-named individual to one introduced by a noun , the processor would be dominated by stereotypical associations . |
| 21 | And it seems to me that in looking for in Rochester da Rochester 's admission that he wants a woman who is opposite from Bertha |
| 22 | Finally , it should be remembered that in looking for linguistically significant aspects of speech we must always be looking for contrasts ; one of the most important things about any unit of phonology or grammar is the set of items it contrasts with . |
| 23 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
| 24 | The Order of Things , although in many ways Foucault 's most influential work , remains , however , an oddity in certain respects : first , that in arguing for an a priori common to a ( limited ) number of knowledges , Foucault at times seems to be advocating a structural key between different levels within the episteme , thus restoring the form of the essential section so criticized by Althusser . |
| 25 | It was unfortunate for Virgin that in applying for ‘ exemption ’ to fly into America they should have walked into a simmering row between the American and British governments over the British refusal to allow PanAm to operate a third frequency across the Atlantic . |
| 26 | They disagreed with the view that in caring for sick charity begins at home . |
| 27 | In fact , we 'd much rather spend any extra time available for getting these students through their modules than in trying for the additional assessment . |
| 28 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
| 29 | But now the club have found that on applying for renewal of permission to play at the same venue next season , the pitch has already been allocated . |
| 30 | But one thing seems clear : during the past decade the Government has been more intent on reducing the powers of local authorities than on providing for fundamental changes in the social conditions of the inner cities . |