Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The irony , however , is that in fact the new system is more likely to increase central control over , and funding of , local spending , instead of allowing for local variation , accountability and choice . |
| 32 | Max Saunders FHCIMA , a retired group director of catering for Grand Metropolitan plc , is the new chairman of the South West Regional Committee of the Hotel and Catering Benevolent Association ( HCBA ) . |
| 33 | With the Rule of St Benedict ( c. 550 ) , supremely , the monastic community was launched on the road of catering for ordinary people rather than a spiritual élite . |
| 34 | New season of boating for handicapped people |
| 35 | Recognition of the importance of spacing for maternal and child health followed relatively soon the realization of the effects of maternal age and birth order . |
| 36 | If you are considering applying for deferred entry , you should discuss this possibility with your head teacher and should also write to the Faculty of Science and Engineering Office , stating the course for which you intend to apply and your reasons for seeking deferment . |
| 37 | The distinctions between the two cases are not convincing and the apparent conflict and the difficulties posed by causation in the medical negligence cases show the drawbacks of using the tort system as a method of compensating for personal injuries . |
| 38 | This covered the cost of that interview and will cover the cost of applying for Legal Aid . |
| 39 | The policy of the 1870s was relaxed due to awareness of the hardship inflicted — those reduced to the extreme of applying for poor relief even in 1870 were those with no other resort , and their numbers could be further reduced only by increasing their hardship . |
| 40 | By this time Joyce had also taken the final and logical step of applying for German citizenship on behalf of his wife and himself . |
| 41 | The process of checking for unnecessary points on a digitized line should be capable of being performed within the GIS . |
| 42 | * Check over your drafts , and separate the overall process of writing from the more mechanical process of checking for correct spellings , grammar , etc. ( see p. 117 ) . |
| 43 | Mr. Wilson : The Minister must accept that if another potential buyer was coming cold on the scene , there would be no question of qualifying for financial assistance . |
| 44 | The tape recorders were supplied by the British Ferrograph Company of South Shields , who made an extremely high-quality and tough recorder capable of operating for long periods without attention . |
| 45 | They are not of value in the description of mature ability , nor in the description of the demands of writing for specific purposes . |
| 46 | For to that great extent to which such rationality is a matter of seeking for logical consistency , and for some more general coherence in the total spread of one 's opinions , it can have full play in ethical thought , conceived along attitudinist lines . |
| 47 | This process of looking for individual points of agreement whilst demonstrating diplomatic skills , results in a piecemeal approach which is not targeted to handle or solve any specific problems , but addresses a wide range of problems poorly or inefficiently . |
| 48 | Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems , the call went up for a leader who would , in the words of one Bioscope editorial , be able ‘ to make order out of disorder , to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand , tactfully and helpfully , yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives . ’ . |
| 49 | There were moments when she thought of looking for outside help but there was really no one she could turn to . |
| 50 | It is easy to fall into the trap of looking for causal relations between what we ( the education community ) do and what pupils achieve , and forget to take into account our pupils ' own efforts , perceptions and experiences . |
| 51 | Instead of looking for different relations in different contexts to prove ambiguity , one may adduce sameness of relations as evidence of generality . |
| 52 | pointed out , at p. 327d , this House , while upholding the Court of Appeal 's order requiring the respondents to allow access to premises for the purpose of looking for illicit copies of films and to allow them to be removed to safe custody , also upheld that court 's refusal of an order to answer interrogatories and to make discovery of documents relating to the illicit copies , including ‘ invoices … books of accounts , letters , lists or other documents . ’ |
| 53 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 54 | The effects of high divorce rates characteristic of the post-1960s in Britain upon family structures , filial responsibility and grandparenthood remain largely unknown but will probably have a profound influence upon the experience of ageing for future generations of older people . |
| 55 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 56 | Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer . |
| 57 | On this sheet , on page two , we 've er , we 've performed equation two , right , on the sheet and the second page and it says that there 's , there are two alternative ways of testing for structural change using dummy variables . |
| 58 | We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children . |
| 59 | Whether it can also address the issues of caring for growing numbers of elderly people is another matter . |
| 60 | There is much to do , in the inter-connected aspects of caring for human beings , animals and the environment , and we all have the opportunity to do what we can in our own situations . |