Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His decision to take a year off from international rugby has left selectors with the difficult choice of going for a short-term replacement or of opting for long-term continuity . |
| 2 | When such means failed the extended family gave support most often in the form of food or of caring for some children of the family until a crisis was over , or permanently if it was sustained . |
| 3 | Or to Angmering for that matter . ’ |
| 4 | This loss of immunoreactivity in serum and urine can be prevented by the addition of 20 mM zinc acetate or by boiling for 10 minutes . |
| 5 | Evaluate the effectiveness of the plan for satisfying the medical , psychological , and personal needs of the patients and for catering for potential problems . |
| 6 | Well because I think a thanksgiving service for victory and for praying for those who 've died on both sides , I think that 's perfectly reasonable , but a victory parade , goodness a hundred thousand Iraquis died . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water . |
| 9 | At 14 months , all rate were killed by exsanguination under general anaesthesia and after fasting for 15 hours . |
| 10 | Blom settled in England shortly before the war of 1914–18 , and after working for two music publishers — Breitkopf & Härtel in Berne and J. & W. Chester in London — began to make his name in 1919 as a writer of programme notes for the Promenade Concerts . |
| 11 | And after working for seven minutes I am already feeling the need for the ingestion of sugar . |
| 12 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 13 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |
| 14 | He still dreamt of avenging the shame of Kosovo and of ending for all time the ‘ long Turkish night ’ . |
| 15 | A. Two great inventions , about 1800 , caused a massive rapid expansion of industry and of housing for extra workers . |
| 16 | It is clear that individuals in the ‘ higher ’ occupational groupings are far more likely to have high incomes and to be owner-occupiers than those in the lower groupings , and it is also clear that children of higher category parents have a much better chance of extending their education beyond the minimum , and of qualifying for higher status occupations themselves ( Goldthorpe , 1980 , Halsey et al . , |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There are contested arguments for and against charging for social services , which resemble the more general argument about markets we reviewed in Chapter 3 . |
| 19 | Fourthly , the comprehensive multidisciplinary assessments of individual older people have a key role in the overall evaluation of service provision and in planning for future development . |
| 20 | Even if the primary focus is the needs of an older person , the counsellor can not afford to ‘ take sides ’ , but should instead aim to help the whole family face up to and develop a wider understanding of the problems and difficulties that exist in old age , and in caring for older people . |
| 21 | The latter sounded his horn impatiently , and without waiting for any sign nosed his car into the middle lane , accelerating as he did so . |
| 22 | And by deferring for five years the right to purchase the balance of LIN 's shares BT is protected against a downturn in cellular company prices . |
| 23 | It is a truism , but worth stating for all that : as teachers , academics ’ first responsibility is to their teaching ( i.e. to their students ) ; it is not to their research . |
| 24 | Communication is not a matter of trying to " put something " into the other person 's perception but of arranging for that perception to , temporarily , coincide with one 's own . |
| 25 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |