Example sentences of "[verb] for [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she would stay for up an hour in shirt-sleeves in the pitch-dark , sometimes in the snow , while the bewildered family shivered inside . |
| 2 | It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered . |
| 3 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
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| 5 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 6 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
| 7 | We calculated the possible effect of birth weight for a given age of gestation on FEV 1 using the example of two children of 38 weeks ' gestation with the same attributes adjusted for in the analysis but one having a birth weight of 2500 g and the other 3500 g . |
| 8 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 9 | I saw , and I have had in actual fact , recourse to actually use that service over there , and it 's rather interesting if one can t to say that er in the particular village which I er represent , they actually came up , when I asked a certain question , they gave me a , a , far more than what I actually asked for at the time , but found out who the first village constable was , and I think myself that er , that service over there , it deserves every praise it gets heaped on it . |
| 10 | It recommended the adoption of the procedure asked for in the Institute 's Memorial , which he had helped to organize , and the substitution of moderate passages , in place of his forthright statements , only tended to give the Report the appearance of a more impartial document . |
| 11 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 12 | This was £80,000 in excess of the loan asked for in the application in its unaltered form . |
| 13 | This has , of course , been recognized for over a century . |
| 14 | And thirdly , we ask you to affirm the call of Peter for praying for in the ministry . |
| 15 | And that test has to be applied to es each eyslate because this toxin is not part of the genome of Cherani bacteria diphtheria , it 's actually a farged mediated toxin , it 's actually encoded for by a bacteria farged . |
| 16 | Losses which can be claimed for under the Act are death , personal injuries and any loss of or damage to property ( s. 5(1) ) . |
| 17 | Here are the charts , as voted for by the readers of the disk-magazine Remark : |
| 18 | Those are only the qualities he looks for in the people who work for him , though . |
| 19 | The posters were fixed at night and the culprits were never caught — or , more likely , never looked for by a police force who enjoyed the joke as much as the rest of the city . |
| 20 | Another possibility is that there could be a relationship between this inflammation and infection with Helicobacter pylori , although we are unable to confirm this from our study , since the organism was not specifically looked for in every case . |
| 21 | Nothing fancy is looked for in the way of bait and tackle : it 's the basic hook , line and worm . |
| 22 | Finally , it seems also to be a taken-for-granted principle that in human affairs where there is order there is something corresponding to a rule to be looked for in the background of the actions which appear as orderly . |
| 23 | Project members are normally overseen by a Steering Committee , representing relevant expertise that is not to be looked for within the institution itself . |
| 24 | Tied up nearby , as before , is a solitary cow which he cares for on a 25-per-cent basis ( the rest of the proceeds go to the owner ) . |
| 25 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 26 | ( A new test must be applied for from the N.E.C. for each re-take . ) |
| 27 | Following our telephone conversation today I write to confirm that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council will discuss the entertainment licence applied for by the Priory Cafe Scorton at their next meeting on Thursday 18th March . |
| 28 | These arrangements , however , only affect policies that were applied for after the April 1987 deadline . |
| 29 | Itinerant craftsmen have been argued for on the basis of the use of bronze models for the production of two-piece clay moulds ( Werner 1970 ; Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and Hines views travelling craftsmen as the most suitable explanation for the dispersal of ornamental metalwork ( Hines 1984 ) . |
| 30 | The maximalist interpretation is more promising , and the views to be argued for in the rest of this essay explore and develop it . |