Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ADEMA captured 76 of the 116 seats voted for by the internal electorate ; 13 seats were reserved for Malians abroad . |
| 2 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 3 | Two years later the tax was extended to include Nonconformist registrations — a move petitioned for by the Dissenting churches themselves , who welcomed the official sanction of their records . |
| 4 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 5 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 6 | It is possible to obtain derogation from certain Stock Exchange requirements but this must be applied for in the early stages of a transaction . |
| 7 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |
| 8 | Some members of the Committee moved that the school stay open , on the grounds that short-term financial gain would not be compensated for by the long-term loss to the community . |
| 9 | The even more rapid decline in the two-party vote in Britain is to some extent compensated for by the increased vote for the smaller parties since the 1970s , but in the United States the proportion of the electorate mobilized by the parties is almost certainly even smaller because of the growing number of single-issue pressure groups in recent years . |
| 10 | Any loss in emotional or dramatic range , however , is generally compensated for by the fearsome intensity of the vision that results , and the compelling stylishness with which it is communicated . |
| 11 | This was the outcome of changes in population growth and its age distribution which were only partly compensated for by the marked increase in female participation ratios , especially of those in the 25–60 age groups [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 12 | While some forms of employment in the area have declined ( for example , in the railway workshops ) , they have been more than compensated for by the high technology boom and its associated distribution and service industries . |
| 13 | The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door . |
| 14 | Bouncing the rhythm and lead guitars and reprocessing them was , I admit , a bit over the top but , even so ( apart from a slight dulling of the sound , easily compensated for in the final mix ) , I thought the results were very good . |
| 15 | H pylori was stained for by the modified Giemsa method . |
| 16 | An increase of the Fixed Satellite Service band is proposed between 3.5GHz and 3.6GHz while flexibility is called for in the existing bands for Fixed Satellite Service and the Broadcasting Satellite Service , particularly between 11GHz and 12GHz . |
| 17 | Several items called for in the Digital Servo Interface are ‘ specials ’ and will not be available locally . |
| 18 | A considerable injection of resources will be required to provide the managerial and technological expertise called for in the White Paper . |
| 19 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 20 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 21 | Demands on social services to provide support are rising steadily as are those made on voluntary groups and organisations who strive to support both carer and cared for with the limited financial and physical resources they have available . |
| 22 | I suspect they were being cared for under the Central Methodist hall . |
| 23 | But hear Richards : ‘ Ewbank 'd inside and Atco 'd outside , the English suburban residence , and the garden which is an integral part of it , stand trim and lovingly cared for in the mild sunshine . |
| 24 | In recent years prisons have accumulated increasing numbers of mentally disordered people who at one time would probably been cared for in the old asylums . |
| 25 | Some of its relics are scrupulously cared for in the English Circle headquarters ; they showed me a pair of jockey scales , caricatures of riders clambering redfaced out of ditches , group paintings of the hunt moving off . |
| 26 | Storms had wrecked the Spanish fleet on the shores of West Ireland , and the refugees had been welcomed and cared for by the Irish people . |
| 27 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
| 28 | Along the road we were ably supported and cared for by the ubiquitous Ian Godwin ( no , do n't let him map read ! ) and the effervescent Liz Roberts ( in charge of silliness and peanut butter and banana sandwiches ) . |
| 29 | Some small but particularly beautiful areas of woods , cliffs and islands are preserved and cared for by the National Trust . |
| 30 | By the end of November over 5,000 people were estimated to have left Haiti , of whom some 3,500 were being held aboard United States vessels or at US bases , and over 1,000 were being cared for by the Cuban authorities . |