Example sentences of "[verb] for [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can recommend any family will find what they are looking for at an HCI Club . |
| 2 | And what else was Kerrang looking for in an ideal editor ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Older people are not confined , when cared for in an acute hospital , to the geriatrics department ; they are the single largest patient group for most major medical specialisms . |
| 5 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 6 | For example , an older person with a fractured femur or requiring a hip replacement will be cared for by an orthopaedic surgeon ; someone requiring a cateract operation will be under the care of an ophthalmologist . |
| 7 | These dissonant days the best a player can hope for as an inspirational backdrop to his talent is an off-pitch dirge . |
| 8 | The sale will hit Bonar 's bottom line profits figure to the tune of £1.2 million , to be provided for as an exceptional item in the group 's results to 30 November . |
| 9 | ‘ Loans not in possession or not in arrears for in excess of six months are provided for on an individual basis if circumstances so warrant . ’ |
| 10 | Here the LEA had argued that a child ( J ) with dyslexia did not have special educational needs requiring special educational provision for the purposes of the 1981 Act , because he was an intelligent child whose needs could be provided for in an ordinary school . |
| 11 | Changes in practice have to be worked for in an intensive and structured way . |
| 12 | The higher death benefit before retirement is allowed for by an equivalent reduction in retirement benefit . |
| 13 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 14 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p.125 ) proposes that goods were paid for with an agreed weight of gold or silver . |
| 15 | Notably in New England and California , the adjustment between old expectations of ever-better social services , paid for by an ever-growing economy , and the new recessionary reality is a large one that will have to be made quickly . |
| 16 | PW points out that had Perfect Information been accounted for as an associated undertaking , ‘ in our opinion up to £2m of the loss recognised this year would have been reflected in the year ended 31 March 1991 by elimination of profits arising on sales made to Perfect Information Ltd . |
| 17 | Between 500 and 1000 km of north-south crustal shortening could be accounted for by an equivalent amount of lateral crustal movement arising from the ‘ ploughing ’ motion of the Indian Plate as it moved northwards and displaced lithospheric blocks in the Eurasian Plate . |
| 18 | This could be accounted for by an initial Hercynian episode of stripping of Carboniferous overburden . |