Example sentences of "for or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a limited number of people will be allowed to address the councillors for or against a proposal at the meeting . |
| 2 | The board has tried to gather information about the bid , but we could not act until we knew who to act for or against . |
| 3 | Leisure was something people never planned for or thought about . |
| 4 | When the next Rushdie has his book put to the torch , incitement to violence over a book , whether for or against it , should be treated as a criminal offence . |
| 5 | SINCE Indian independence in 1947 , the main question before Indian voters has been whether they were for or against the Nehru-Gandhi family . |
| 6 | Locke 's thought is that , just as we can distinguish between the characteristics of gold ( or the clock ) , and its corpuscular constitution ( or internal mechanism ) , so we can distinguish between the characteristic properties of a triangle , and what accounts for or explains them . |
| 7 | Put simply , Northern Ireland is now the only place on the globe where people can not vote for or join the Labour Party . |
| 8 | Those candidates stood to draw attention to the fact that Northern Ireland residents can not vote for or join a party which will govern them when it comes to power . |
| 9 | In that too , they were alike : both of them had thoughts and feelings that few people gave them credit for or even suspected . |
| 10 | ‘ If I throw names at you , ’ he said , ‘ give your reasons for or against . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know that it 's for or against that he dotes on his wife . |
| 12 | I confess to finding some of his Freudian speculations , unleavened as they are by the faintest suspicion of humour , hard to follow , in the sense that I am unsure what would count either for or against them . |
| 13 | When the issue about state education was simply for or against comprehensive schools , I was absolutely sure where I stood : against , on principle , the principle being that it was wrong to destroy precious educational institutions of great antiquity and the highest quality — the grammar schools — in favour of some abstract egalitarian theory . |
| 14 | After all , the theist is seeking to conform with the verification principle and is listing observations which count for or against God 's existence . |
| 15 | There was also one further desk at the front , set just below the Inspector , where ‘ witnesses , gave evidence either for or against the proposal . |
| 16 | In giving consent to another 's actions , however , our primary purpose is to authorise those actions and in so doing create for or accord to another a special right to act : the obligation generated on the consentor not to interfere with the exercise of this right takes , in this case , the secondary role . |
| 17 | Politicians are reluctant to popularise or enforce measures against which many campaigned prior to Independence and ‘ the majority of farmers remain unaware of the causes of erosion and unconvinced of the need for or value of conservation measures ’ ( ibid. : 28 ) . |
| 18 | Land-users are taxed , sell their produce in the market , work for or employ others , have unequal access to land or other agricultural inputs and are part of the processes of agrarian change such as commercialisation , accumulation , disinvestment and differentiation . |
| 19 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 20 | But if you have to choose one market and you 're producing for or looking to sell to TV , then MIP-TV is probably the better place . |
| 21 | The second way was to find a compound which would compete for or block the inactivating enzyme . |
| 22 | for these would be local schools , selecting about 1,000 pupils from an area that contained about 5,000 children of school age , the selection being made in terms of suitability for or ability to benefit from the kind of education to be provided . |
| 23 | Q What if one of these bodies has reached a decision ( for or against ) and wants to change its mind ? |
| 24 | working for or assisting a competitor . |
| 25 | You may want to invite former colleagues to work for or with you in your new sphere . |
| 26 | Intact physical structures which enable one to see , hear , taste , smell and touch , and those which permit speech and body language are basic to independence , although some degree of impairment can often be compensated for or coped with . |
| 27 | Broadly this expression means any premises in which or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which , persons are employed in any process for or incidental to any of the purposes , outlined in s.175 of the Act , provided the work carried on there is part of a trade or for profit . |
| 28 | In this approach , solutions in the interaction region for or are related to the functions and , and hence S may be obtained as a function of f and g . |
| 29 | Rather , it is an examination of constraints which militate for or against plural reference . |
| 30 | The work plan timetable will highlight specific requirements which must be either budgeted for or planned as appropriate . |