Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We propose that this daunting list of stages , each of which calls for different information skills , can only be satisfactorily incorporated in the school 's programme by a curriculum policy built around these skills . |
| 2 | ‘ I check the bookings to get a general idea of what to plan for weekly activities . |
| 3 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 4 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 5 | Of course , if one envisages the nationalisation of all the major enterprises ( ‘ top monopolies ’ ) , then the problem becomes internalised within the ‘ public sector ’ , but two points here : first , the present discussion is predicated on the hypothesis that there is a fruitful ideological space within which to argue for socialist investment planning — it does not depend on the ( counterfactual ) proposition that there is wide popular support for sweeping nationalisation of enterprises . |
| 6 | The empirical requirement is to seek , evaluate and make explicit the evidence upon which claims for particular ideas and practices advocated as policy are based . |
| 7 | In this kind of analysis the firm is often represented as a family in which respect for male elders is expressed by using seniority as the least disruptive and most predictable basis for internal promotion . |
| 8 | His analysis ( Garland 1985b , p. 32 ) concludes that ‘ the constraints of legal principle and political ideology ’ produced a system aimed at ‘ uniformity , equality of treatment and proportionality ’ in which concerns for individual reformation played only a very minor part . |
| 9 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |