Example sentences of "[verb] for [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 2 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 3 | In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do . |
| 4 | ADEMA captured 76 of the 116 seats voted for by the internal electorate ; 13 seats were reserved for Malians abroad . |
| 5 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 6 | All in all , some pretty advanced hardware , but it does n't come cheap : Pentium readiness counts for about a grand of the price . |
| 7 | Two years later the tax was extended to include Nonconformist registrations — a move petitioned for by the Dissenting churches themselves , who welcomed the official sanction of their records . |
| 8 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 9 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 10 | It is possible to obtain derogation from certain Stock Exchange requirements but this must be applied for in the early stages of a transaction . |
| 11 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |
| 12 | All this is followed meticulously if at a respectful distance by Doolittle 's seven-piece band , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a strong sense of the orchestra 's role as a virtual extension of the voice , but with little willingness to let the musical idea take over the action . |
| 13 | And that 's a traditional one that 's been made for in a modern , modern colour . |
| 14 | I can recommend any family will find what they are looking for at an HCI Club . |
| 15 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 16 | Even blindingly obvious and crucial insights do n't usually come instantly — it took us 24 hours to realise that the part-concealed agenda behind IBM 's December closures was that the company was signalling the death of the mainframe , a couple of months to realise that the executive search committee of IBM non-executive directors had n't a clue what it should be looking for in a new chief executive for IBM — because they themselves did n't have the computer industry background they needed to recognise how vital such a background would be to the person assuming the post . |
| 17 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 18 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 19 | And what else was Kerrang looking for in an ideal editor ? |
| 20 | A market downturn in rig moves was more than compensated for by a significant increase in supporting offshore construction projects . |
| 21 | For example , the declining firm needs an annual dividend yield of 20 per cent to compensate for the capital loss of 5 per cent per annum , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a dividend yield of only 2.66 per cent , but this is compensated for by an average annual growth in the share price of 12.34 per cent . |
| 22 | Some members of the Committee moved that the school stay open , on the grounds that short-term financial gain would not be compensated for by the long-term loss to the community . |
| 23 | The even more rapid decline in the two-party vote in Britain is to some extent compensated for by the increased vote for the smaller parties since the 1970s , but in the United States the proportion of the electorate mobilized by the parties is almost certainly even smaller because of the growing number of single-issue pressure groups in recent years . |
| 24 | Any loss in emotional or dramatic range , however , is generally compensated for by the fearsome intensity of the vision that results , and the compelling stylishness with which it is communicated . |
| 25 | This was the outcome of changes in population growth and its age distribution which were only partly compensated for by the marked increase in female participation ratios , especially of those in the 25–60 age groups [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 26 | While some forms of employment in the area have declined ( for example , in the railway workshops ) , they have been more than compensated for by the high technology boom and its associated distribution and service industries . |
| 27 | The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door . |
| 28 | Bouncing the rhythm and lead guitars and reprocessing them was , I admit , a bit over the top but , even so ( apart from a slight dulling of the sound , easily compensated for in the final mix ) , I thought the results were very good . |
| 29 | In order to have my clothing coupons replaced I had to be vouched for by a responsible person , and Leslie 's uncle , who was a K.C. and Sheriff-Substitute of Fife and Kinross , kindly did this for me . |
| 30 | While the quality of English wines can now compare with estate-grown and bottled wines from Germany or Alsace — in that they are fairly uniform — they bear the crisply full-flowered taste we often look for in a good table wine or aperitif . |