Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Board has been criticized for over-concentration on economic development at the expense of social development ( Carter 1974 ) . |
| 2 | Those who eschewed colour and decoration , like Spurgeon , and built what were really mammoth meeting-houses with a Greek front , were criticized for lack of taste and for concentrating too much on the preacher . |
| 3 | Sociolinguists who present their data using the simple graphs and frequency tables popularized by Labov in his early work have often been criticized for lack of statistical sophistication . |
| 4 | The study has been criticized for incompleteness of data , but it was a major step forward , and the results obtained were so positive that further research was stimulated . |
| 5 | Despite a long tradition of education , there is still a lack of qualified teachers : in 1986 almost 400 teaching posts were not filled for lack of trained applicants . |
| 6 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 7 | We left after breakfast on the Monday and stopped for lunch near Montdidier . |
| 8 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 9 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 10 | You may keep travel and subsistence expenses paid during jury service , but as your normal salary will have been paid in your absence , any payments received for loss of earnings must be made over to the Company . |
| 11 | I refer to your fax of 16 February 1993 concerning the return you have received for completion from the Local Government Chronicle . |
| 12 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 13 | A time should be prescribed for exercise of any option , though that could be extended by subsequent agreement and the court would readily imply a reasonable time if none were in fact specified . |
| 14 | such additional requirements as may be prescribed for admission to particular courses of study |
| 15 | It is true that if Mr. Tully fails to comply with the order of Buckley J. he could be punished for contempt after a hearing in open court and subject to review by an appellate court . |
| 16 | Continuity was assured by the performance becoming enshrined in a religious ritual which could never be broken for fear of offending the gods . |
| 17 | Such large quantities of water have been diverted for irrigation of the crop that the rivers which once ran into the sea no longer reach it . |
| 18 | He was an honest man : differences between the two quartos are very real , and they point to an obvious conclusion — that The Fairy Queen first staged in 1692 was significantly altered for revival in 1693 . |
| 19 | Accounting policies which if altered for consistency with the purchaser 's policies would have a material effect on the earnings or net assets of the target . |
| 20 | More than five million people have registered for part of the government 's remaining stake in British Telecom . |
| 21 | Since last April , instead of having tax deducted at source from all accounts , we now have about 12.5m accounts which have registered for interest to be paid gross . |
| 22 | The sheet explains what an NMT is ; what arrangements apply when supplying an NMT to a person not registered for VAT for removal to another EC country ; what happens if a new vehicle is to be used on UK roads before it is removed to another EC country ; and what to do if obtaining an NMT in the UK for removal to another EC country . |
| 23 | The appellant firm provided tax consultancy and accounting services and registered for VAT in October 1986 . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many firms were registered for VAT in ( a ) 1979 and ( b ) 1991 . |
| 25 | At the end of 1990 , the latest date for which figures are available , the number of businesses registered for VAT in the United Kingdom was 1.7 million , compared with 1.3 million at the end of 1979 — an increase of almost a third . |
| 26 | The pathogenesis , diagnosis , treatment and control measures are as for the other ruminants , but care must be taken in choosing the anthelmintic since many of those recommended for sheep and cattle are not registered for use in goats . |
| 27 | The best friend of Princess Diana 's brother was said to have arranged for bullion to be secretly exported to India . |
| 28 | Officials within the Northern Ireland Office then arranged for money to be secured for the scheme from the Department of Environment . |
| 29 | But by 1983 sales had been arranged for part of Britoil , Associated British Ports , Amersham International , shares in BP , and the NEB 's shareholdings ( Table 8.2 ) . |
| 30 | Hyman , on the other hand , gives a functional definition of browsing : " Browsing is the activity subsumed in the direct shelf approach whereby materials arranged for use in a library are bed in the reasonable expectation that desired or valuable items or information might be found among those materials as arranged on the shelves ! " |