Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly they make demands on social and medical services , and it is possible that severely mentally handicapped people will have to be looked after for all their lives . |
| 2 | Their defence solicitor said Merlin had been well looked after for five years . |
| 3 | Version 9 will include all the specifications that must be adhered to for those designing and implementing 64-bit Sparc technology . |
| 4 | The special case of a disseminated labour force , the railway and other communications workers , will be looked at for 1922 . |
| 5 | ‘ As nasty a thing as I 've looked at for many a day ’ , says one of the characters in Trollope 's Vicar of Bullhampton of the local Nonconformist chapel . |
| 6 | I agree , I find it quite difficult to drive a lot of vehicles because I 'm very small and especially if you 've got small feet and I think there 's a big problem in that area and that it should be looked at for small people driving cars . |
| 7 | I recently read an assessment report which stated , ‘ Her mother seems to have disappeared and has n't been heard of for six months . |
| 8 | Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year . |
| 9 | The individual is the provider of material and data , is sought after for this purpose , is the bearer of social forces and is the agent of society itself . |
| 10 | Behind the solitary constable was a vast army of doppelgänger wheeling and cavorting in the city 's Sefton Park , ready and available to reinforce the power of the patrol officer , a force to be reckoned with for those who might dispute the territory of the street . |
| 11 | This is a question that the board has struggled with for two years . |
| 12 | I hope this public interest will eventually fade away , especially when we have moved in for good . |
| 13 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 14 | Er I do n't know how many of you made wills but er draw him out on other things if you 've got any problems I mean we we had quite an interesting session at one of the power station talks on a er tenant er tenancy agreement that a chap had been bothered about for some years . |
| 15 | Digital networks , in the form of ISDN ( integrated services digital network ) have been talked about for many years , and in mainly technical terms . |
| 16 | This twenty-five-day trial was probably the most talked about for many years . |
| 17 | ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct . |
| 18 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |
| 19 | This was something which has come out that an officer was told by for better , for truth or for untruth a year or so later . |
| 20 | … to ensure that redundancy is not used as a pretext for getting rid of employees which some manager wishes to get rid of for some quite other reasons , eg … by reason of personal dislike . |
| 21 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 22 | Its soothing action has been called upon for many generations . |
| 23 | In my humble opinion , he should not be called upon for such justification . |
| 24 | This means that the original cause of action can no longer be relied upon for any purpose . |
| 25 | Few can be relied upon for any technical back-up or support services although they can draw upon the services of their manufacturing suppliers for this purpose . |
| 26 | Only science and mathematics , declared the positivists , could be depended upon for reliable knowledge and to provide the true basis for progress ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 27 | When this was in turn cleared in the early 1980s the site was disposed of for private construction . |
| 28 | The details of his three years ' captivity from the North African desert to the Eastern Front were not spoken of for more than another thirty , other than by occasional scant reference . |
| 29 | ‘ Does article 5(1) of the [ Brussels ] Convention apply to claims which are made by an association constituted under private law possessing legal personality against one of its members in a matter relating to obligations in regard to the payment of a sum of money and which have their basis in the relationship between the parties by virtue of membership , such relationship arising from the defendant party 's joining the association as a member by virtue of a legal transaction entered into for that purpose ? |
| 30 | And what is the effect on the children of a marriage entered into for economic or social reasons ? |