Example sentences of "[conj] for [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elder abuse has not been a priority for research or for developing practice guidance for social workers and other staff who have direct contact with older people . |
| 2 | These results suggest that unqualified mature students do not perform as well in their final examinations as qualified mature students or for that matter standard entry students . |
| 3 | We may refer to the functions of manager , sales representative , typist , or industrial scientist , or for that matter fitter , as ‘ occupations ’ . |
| 4 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
| 5 | These included such ‘ subversive ’ bodies as wartime committees for Soviet-American friendship or for Russian War Relief . |
| 6 | These examples suggest that de-centralisation in itself will not substitute for the market 's rewards and penalties , or for genuine consumer sovereignty . |
| 7 | There 's a lesson here for the BBC or for any television organisation — and it 's important that everyone should get that lesson right . |
| 8 | Although British Coal pays compensation for damage resulting from mining subsidence there can be no adequate compensation for the emotional loss of one 's home or for some material loss . |
| 9 | They were often used for one or another of the Sheikh families , or for some accident victim who could not get to a specialist hospital in any other way . |
| 10 | ( c ) if , at the date of the offer , the offeror holds shares carrying 50 per cent or less of the voting rights attributable to the equity share capital , and the offer is for debentures or for non-equity share capital , the offer must include or be accompanied by an offer made by the offeror for the remainder of the shares comprised in the equity share capital ; |
| 11 | It has yet to be decided exactly how this money will be spent but , as with all legacies , it will either be used for new acquisitions or for vital capital expenditure on properties . |
| 12 | However , the investment in all assets except for short-term government debt involves some degree of risk . |
| 13 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 14 | War or MOD Disablement Pension or War Widow 's Pension ( except for Constant Attendance Allowance and Mobility Supplement paid as an addition to a War Disablement Pension ) |
| 15 | All the professional photography we see on television is shot from camera tripods except for some newsreel material — and even hand-held news shots are almost as steady when the camcorder is being operated by an experienced cameraman . |
| 16 | Evidence in favour of this interpretation of the phrase ‘ the physical environment ’ is found in DoE Circular 55/77 ( now withdrawn ) which made it clear that a statement of pollution policy could appropriately form part of a structure plan , albeit necessarily of a general nature since they are policies stated by an authority ( county council ) responsible neither for air pollution control nor for most development control . |
| 17 | It was not unusual for reliefs to reach the front with only half the numbers that set out , nor for this nightmare approach march to last ten hours or longer . |
| 18 | This algorithm assumes that for each sentence position only one of the candidates is correct ( this condition generally holds , except in cases where the correct word is missing from the list of candidates ) . |
| 19 | Simpson ( 1984 ) argues that for compulsory education disaggregation by demographic characteristics is not particularly useful . |
| 20 | ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . ) |
| 21 | In the Victorian era , however , the burden of interest payments resulting from earlier wartime borrowing caused such concern that for some time budget surpluses were run in order to reduce the national debt . |
| 22 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 23 | This implies that for any investment asset the marginal rate of exchange between the expected return and the risk ( standard deviation ) of that asset must be equal to the marginal rate of exchange for the market as a whole . |
| 24 | Reaction times to photographs of faces in a same-different task were reported to be faster for left than for right hemifield presentation by Geffen , Bradshaw and Wallace ( 1971 ) , Rizzolatti , Umilta and Berlucchi ( 1971 ) , Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta ( 1974 ) and St John ( 1981 ) . |
| 25 | The Institute , now renamed the International Federation of Documentation , set out to design a standard international classification scheme primarily for documentation rather than for general library use . |
| 26 | In the event , empirical work in general ( as noted above ) does not appear to confirm the presence of large disincentive effects , although for negative income tax ( NIT ) , experiments in the USA undertaken in the 1970s did produce significant negative-work-hours responses of the order of 7 per cent reduction for males , 25 per cent for wives and 15 per cent for female heads of households ( see Robins and West 1980 ) . |
| 27 | If for many contract computer staff their employment is more permanent than temporary , it is also pertinent to ask whether it is more safe than precarious . |
| 28 | If for any reason station staff do not know the answer , call us . |
| 29 | Limits might be set for the amount of animal manure put on the land , and for inorganic fertiliser application , based on crop and soil types . |
| 30 | The British believe that they have a genius for constitutional government with a minimum of constitutional laws , and for working majority rule without oppression of minorities . |