Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she is serious about knitting for other people she must do four things . |
| 2 | Evaluate the effectiveness of the plan for satisfying the medical , psychological , and personal needs of the patients and for catering for potential problems . |
| 3 | The store coach consisted of an office for the officer in charge , linen store , two store rooms for provisions , sleeping accommodation for chief steward and cook , and a large kitchen fitted with all accessories for cooking for 140 patients . |
| 4 | It 's also worth applying for other jobs that appeal and for which you might have a chance . |
| 5 | I have n't read such a self-consciously ‘ literary ’ book about climbing for some years , and that style came as a shock , perhaps even intrusion : |
| 6 | One of the results of the emphasis on remedies in administrative law is that the procedure for applying for these remedies is central to an understanding of the position of the public law litigant . |
| 7 | But because the declaration and injunction are remedies in private law as well as in public law , there are also procedures contained elsewhere in the Rules of the Supreme Court for applying for these remedies . |
| 8 | And it is worth pressing for two reasons . |
| 9 | In 1600–1 he was paid for surveying for New College , while in 1602 he mapped the Cambridgeshire estates of Merton College , and in 1607 he surveyed an estate in Leicestershire for Brasenose College . |
| 10 | By the way , friendly , protective neighbours are absolutely invaluable and well worth cultivating for that reason if no other . |
| 11 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 12 | Figure 4.1 shows the growth in spending on private acute care in cash and real terms ( after allowing for general price inflation ) between 1972 and 1989 . |
| 13 | But , after allowing for fixed costs , the couple 's disposable income will be severely squeezed . |
| 14 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 15 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
| 16 | British workers received a 9.3% pay rise in the 12 months to February , equivalent to a real pay increase of just 0.3% after allowing for consumer-price inflation . |
| 17 | But post GATT the occupier 's surplus from arable farming falls to £1500 and after allowing for other income total income would be only about £4000 . |
| 18 | In contrast the trend in cardiovascular mortality with head circumference ( table I ) remained significant after allowing for external conjugate diameter . |
| 19 | In our example , the London couple will experience a relatively modest decline of 5 p.c. in its after tax income after allowing for higher child benefit under Labour . |
| 20 | After allowing for this subsidence there are no significant residual gravity changes between June 1991 and June 1992 , except at the summit crater where there was a decrease of 80μGal . |
| 21 | Who 's going to get into a fight after surfing for eight hours ? ’ |
| 22 | The company was compulsorily wound up after trading for 10 months with a deficiency of around £150,000 . |
| 23 | After trading for some months , he has been approached by a company which says it owns the rights to the trade name Pizza Parlour and that he must desist from using it . |
| 24 | After walking for some time , having covered about half the distance between the two stations , Willie became aware of a steady , yet rather unnerving sound just ahead as if someone was hammering the rails . |
| 25 | After walking for some time through the wood Valdemar put his finger to his lips and motioned us to be quiet . |
| 26 | Results were expressed as nmol substrate metabolised per hour , after correcting for specific radioactivity of the substrate and number of 1 4 C atoms per molecule . |
| 27 | However , a Belgian study in which cuff width and arm circumference were taken into account revealed that even after correcting for this relationship , weight appeared correlated to blood pressure ( Demanet et al , 1976 ) . |
| 28 | After correcting for this imbalance by the direct standardisation method , the recurrence rate in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated patients ( 15% ) was only half that seen in the other two groups ( 30% ) although this difference still failed to reach statistical significance . |
| 29 | After incubating for 30 minutes at room temperature , the reaction was stopped by washing the sections in cold water . |
| 30 | Police Chief Daryl F. Gates retired on June 28 after serving for 14 years as head of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) . |