Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | V. Marlow is not included in either squad despite being named as playing for both Dorning , in place of Hartley , and Twitchit , in place of Millgate . |
| 2 | At one extreme underthrusting is seen as proceeding for up to 1500 km at the base of the continental crust through the peeling off of the lower part of the lithosphere of the Eurasian Plate ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) . |
| 3 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 4 | Instead , they are asking for no compulsory redundancies , and are arguing with BR management about whether this can fairly be interpreted as asking for jobs for a lifetime . |
| 5 | In this way F must soon be interpreted as standing for ‘ Fail ’ . |
| 6 | Wedding rituals in either case are a classic example of how the statements made by participants in a particular context should not be taken literally or at face value but must be interpreted as standing for something else , rich in ambiguity and figures of speech . |
| 7 | Official denials by the Argentine Foreign Office were interpreted as playing for time to avoid loss of face . |
| 8 | I was not shown as voting for the Government motion in Division 15 . |
| 9 | Thus all references to sets of conditions are to be understood as allowing for the possibility of one-member sets . |
| 10 | Even though active support for antislavery organisations declined after 1840 , leaders of abolitionist organisations wanted to be recognised as speaking for a reflexive , if latent , antislavery sentiment . |
| 11 | In this approach , trade unions are viewed as pushing for wage increases in an attempt to gain a bigger and fairer share of the national income for their members . |
| 12 | Furthermore , out of a total number of firms on the audit register of 11,200 , only 164 were identified as acting for listed companies and a further 115 for other large organisations . |
| 13 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 14 | It might seem that it would , because it might seem very natural to think that one red thing or image might be taken as standing for red things in general because of its natural resemblance to the other members of the class , this constituting the most fundamental sort of association . |
| 15 | Vehicle emissions have been calculated as accounting for nearly 80 per cent of Mexico City 's pollution . |
| 16 | Yet this ‘ distraction ’ , which the Commission 's own Court of Auditors Reports have warned , costs hundreds of millions of pounds , was dismissed as accounting for no more than 0.18% of farm spending . |
| 17 | It covered speculation ( described as reselling for profit goods purchased at fixed state retail prices ) , abuse of position by retail trade workers such as by unauthorized sale of goods from depots and warehouses , and private price fixing by groups or individuals with access to scarce goods . |