Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In contrast the trend in cardiovascular mortality with head circumference ( table I ) remained significant after allowing for external conjugate diameter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After looking for agoraphobic avoidance , the therapist should look for social avoidance . |
| 8 | Carefully designed case-control studies are therefore required to measure the separate effect of radon exposure after controlling for smoking behaviour and other risk factors . |
| 9 | They concluded that the importance of allowing for stochastic interest rates varies over time , depending on whether or not large changes in interest rates are expected . |
| 10 | The irony , however , is that in fact the new system is more likely to increase central control over , and funding of , local spending , instead of allowing for local variation , accountability and choice . |
| 11 | If you are considering applying for deferred entry , you should discuss this possibility with your head teacher and should also write to the Faculty of Science and Engineering Office , stating the course for which you intend to apply and your reasons for seeking deferment . |
| 12 | This covered the cost of that interview and will cover the cost of applying for Legal Aid . |
| 13 | The policy of the 1870s was relaxed due to awareness of the hardship inflicted — those reduced to the extreme of applying for poor relief even in 1870 were those with no other resort , and their numbers could be further reduced only by increasing their hardship . |
| 14 | By this time Joyce had also taken the final and logical step of applying for German citizenship on behalf of his wife and himself . |
| 15 | Mr. Wilson : The Minister must accept that if another potential buyer was coming cold on the scene , there would be no question of qualifying for financial assistance . |
| 16 | For to that great extent to which such rationality is a matter of seeking for logical consistency , and for some more general coherence in the total spread of one 's opinions , it can have full play in ethical thought , conceived along attitudinist lines . |
| 17 | There were moments when she thought of looking for outside help but there was really no one she could turn to . |
| 18 | Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer . |
| 19 | On this sheet , on page two , we 've er , we 've performed equation two , right , on the sheet and the second page and it says that there 's , there are two alternative ways of testing for structural change using dummy variables . |
| 20 | These results would suggest that endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography may be a better method of sampling for biliary cytology than percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography although larger numbers of patients within a randomised study would be required for conformation . |
| 21 | One method of paying for private health care is via insurance . |
| 22 | If we could get out of paying for local government , many people would be far happier . |
| 23 | Robert Van Lierop of Vanuatu in the West Pacific and chairman of the group , told the delegates that nations like his ‘ do not have the luxury of waiting for conclusive proof ’ of global warming . |
| 24 | My habit of going for long walking and cycling trips alone further exacerbated my reputation for oddness . |
| 25 | How has the changing face of retailing since the late 1960s affected the role of selling for fast-moving consumer goods ? |
| 26 | The accord allowed for ( i ) the ratification of the March 1990 Oslo accord to seek peace through political means [ see p. 37372 ] ; ( ii ) the promotion of democracy via constitutional and judicial reforms in order to incorporate all political and social sectors in a society based on respect for the law and the independence of the state , and capable of providing for general welfare , social justice and independent economic development ; ( iii ) the incorporation of the URNG into the main political process and its participation in a National Constituent Assembly to be convened by the political parties in 1991 ; and ( iv ) periodic meetings between the URNG and representatives of political parties to accelerate the achievement of the objectives of the peace process . |
| 27 | The paper addressed at some length methods of accounting for convertible debt that seek to address the hybrid nature of such debt by accounting separately for its debt and equity components , although it did not propose that such methods be required . |
| 28 | Respondents are asked to indicate the method of accounting for convertible debt which they consider should be required . |
| 29 | Thus , the discipline remained dogged by the problem of accounting for literary value despite its professional insulation from exposure to the danger of degradations of value in the extra-academic worlds of the literary market-place , the school system , and mass culture . |
| 30 | At the suggestion of the Prince of Wales and encouraged by leading environmentalist Jonathan Porritt , he contacted the Prince of Wales Business Leaders ' Forum , an international network now in its third year of aiming for global business success through good corporate citizenship and sustainable development . |