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 | ‘ We have been advised that the Contributions Agency of the DSS is not entitled to collect NICs for fuel provided to an employee for private use and paid for with an All Star Fuel Card in the tax year 1989/90 . |
| 15 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p.125 ) proposes that goods were paid for with an agreed weight of gold or silver . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This could be accounted for by an initial Hercynian episode of stripping of Carboniferous overburden . |
| 20 | Cyclists and the Forestry Commission have come up with a special scheme , policed by rangers on mountgain bikes , cyclists are allowed anywhere in the forest , apart from 3 nature reserves which are out of bounds and families as well , as the more energetic are catered for with an 11 mile trail along disused railway tracks . |