Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough were portrayed as extravagant young upstarts ( the club had only been in the Football League since 1899 ) , and Sunderland were reproached for daring to ask for such a sum . |
| 2 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 3 | She was found , frozen , in a ditch beside the busy A 34 , after going missing for 4 days and nights . |
| 4 | The equipment — in perfect condition after lying hidden for 50 years — will chronicle a time when each factory had its own firefighting force specially trained to deal with the Luftwaffe 's terrifying weaponry . |
| 5 | AFTER having played for one season under the new laws governing the U19 games , I would like to say how disappointing the season was . |
| 6 | ‘ She is an unmarried middle-aged lady who , after having worked for some while as a district nurse and in health care nursing , in 1968 began fostering children . |
| 7 | The type of binding chosen for any individual volume must always be related to the type and size of the book and its estimated length of retention . |
| 8 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 9 | [ … ] In the course of attempting to account for such market phenomena as quality differentiation , advertising , or markets in which few producers are to be found [ … ] neo-classical theories were led to conclusions which grossly misinterpret the significance of these phenomena . |
| 10 | Circumstances and ideas vary in different countries and the rules of speechmaking differ for different religions . |
| 11 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 12 | The number of occasions when prolonged treatment with aminoglycosides is required is small , but in these cases the risks of ototoxicity are high and the costs of failing to monitor for this disabling condition can be considerable . |
| 13 | Stinking out is impossible since the holes can not be blocked , and even really drastic measures like gassing fail for that same reason . |
| 14 | ‘ After all , I 'm in no position financially to buy a place of my own ; even to think about getting married for several years yet . |
| 15 | Replaced by a stagestruck girl of fourteen , recruited locally , she would be superficially trained in a matter of hours by the Head Girl then , absolutely terrified out of her wits , be put on stage the same night to pacify the Producer , for having paid for eight costumes for a number , he usually insisted on eight bodies filling them , whether or not they knew the routine . |
| 16 | Death and dying Some residents are likely to die while in residential care and there is a need for staff to have some training in helping to care for dying people , in supporting their families , and in attending to the feelings of other residents . |
| 17 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote . |
| 18 | It is time that members opposite stopped this petty vindictiveness and sought to join with both ourselves and the Liberals in seeking to press for real progress in recognising the specific requirement of people with disabilities . |
| 19 | Representatives of the five unions involved will meet on Tuesday to discuss the options , which will range from reballoting to allow for limited strike action to less disruptive forms of escalation in the four-week pay dispute . |
| 20 | What specific social problems are prevalent in the area and what support can you expect in trying to prioritise for special need ? |
| 21 | In trying to account for overall trends it is helpful to start with the sequences of factors which control the immediate risks of fertility for the individual and without which births can not occur : natural fecundity ( the physiological capacity to conceive and bear children ) , exposure to intercourse within and outside marriage , and evasion of the consequences of intercourse through contraception and abortion . |
| 22 | Descartes himself , using the little mechanical and physiological knowledge available to him , went to great lengths in trying to account for this relationship . |
| 23 | What 's also come out very strongly er , in this programme is is that it 's a struggle for a lot of people , both financially , and in terms of juggling time and the multiple demands that particularly women have , in trying to care for young people and old people to the point where women may spend their entire lives between , between twenty and sixty looking after somebody or other . |
| 24 | Designed as an isolation hospital in the 1890's , Over has cared for elderly patients since the 1960's , patients that are now being moved to modern accomodation more in keeping with the 1990's . |
| 25 | With Britain getting closer to Iran and with the US constantly improving its rapport with Syria , we felt that now we were all together , we could be released without having to wait for all the governments to restore relations . |
| 26 | Essentially , they are glorified leisure centres — Butlins for the Costa Brava generation , a way of feeling like you 're abroad without having to wait for three hours at Gatwick Airport . |
| 27 | ‘ I have looked after myself so hopefully my body will repay me by keeping going for another few years . |
| 28 | Sometimes a family will believe that tough love involves refusal to help the suffer to seek recovery , for example by refusing to pay for specific 12 step programme counselling or in-patient treatment . |
| 29 | If response is enhanced by learning to look for more , then this approach seems to offer a way whereby such looking can be energized . |
| 30 | By ensuring the general application of minimum wage standards industry-wide bargaining could also prevent workers from competing with one another by offering to work for less . |