Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 2 | Relationships with that partner may be judged successful or otherwise according to the ways in which they duplicate , replace or compensate for parental relationships . |
| 3 | Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason . |
| 4 | The Food and Drug Administration has also hinted that it may revise a policy that does not at present require special safety testing or labelling for most biotechnology foods . |
| 5 | Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question . |
| 6 | It is easy enough to see how someone , especially someone who has suffered a childhood of poverty , can be led to a fear of emptiness , of not getting enough to eat , of starvation itself , and so in later life to stave off or compensate for such a fear . |
| 7 | Conversely , the assessment of insufficient performance points clearly to the sort of services necessary to redress or compensate for functional deficits . |
| 8 | Similarly , tenements given for maintaining a chantry or lights in some church or chapel , or given for some other alms , if they were alienated , were also to be recoverable by the donor or his heirs . |
| 9 | In October 1921 the Huddersfield unemployed sent a deputation to Herbert Chapman asking for admission charges ( raised from 6d to ls in 1919 ) to be waived or lowered for those with a dole card . |
| 10 | One of the most frightening aspects of all intelligence agencies is the manner in which they create a totally false brand of patriotism in order to further a particular cause on the spurious grounds that only they understand what needs to be done and should not be asked to account or explain for any of their actions which must remain secret for all time . |
| 11 | By meteorological means we 're now able to identify where such a storm will occur with greater efficiency and to take steps for keeping that area clear of people — or to arrange for controlled evacuation . |
| 12 | There seemed to be no consideration given as to how a management strategy would serve the processes desired , little attempt to anticipate possible outcomes or to arrange for specific progress points when reviews could be undertaken , nor to establish criteria against which a programme 's effectiveness would ultimately be evaluated . |
| 13 | A local authority may be asked to provide a report from one of its own officers or to arrange for another person to provide a report as appropriate . |
| 14 | A sense of rejection or an inbuilt feeling of hostility or hate for other people is an ingredient of sexual dissatisfaction or aggression . |
| 15 | It was called the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive , or NIREX for short . |
| 16 | Thus , of the clients who did not receive the residential , short stay , or day care , other services were either provided or arranged for 20.6 per cent of cases in the specialist team and for 6.9 per cent of cases in the generic team . |
| 17 | Dr. Thackeray had never seen or prescribed for any of the patients at the asylum . |
| 18 | British filmmaking ticked over during the 1950s , for the most part without any great ambition , or yen for artistic adventure . |
| 19 | Other ingredients can be added or substituted for different applications . |
| 20 | And we do not need to undergo years of psychoanalysis , or visit a hypnotist , or meditate for twelve hours a day , in order to seek self-knowledge . |
| 21 | See CORROSION-PROOFING & DESCALING for more details . |
| 22 | ‘ There is no Gook or Kraut or Nip for this war ’ , he writes , ‘ and the only Iraqi jokes I 've heard have been on the telephone from back home ’ . |
| 23 | If the maximum , even with the double length light on , is a tuck or slip for two or four rows , it probably will . |
| 24 | We believe that everyone will need to use the private car more selectively — possibly cycling or walking for short journeys or using public transport where this is possible . ’ |
| 25 | They may be precipitated locally ( Thompson , 1959 ) or carried for some distance in solution ( Bathurst , 1975 ; Wanless , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | Ideally the information which is suppressed or grouped for contemporary research should be retained for historical research . |
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