Example sentences of "in [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Women 's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote .
3 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 .
4 What specific social problems are prevalent in the area and what support can you expect in trying to prioritise for special need ?
5 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 .
6 Descartes himself , using the little mechanical and physiological knowledge available to him , went to great lengths in trying to account for this relationship .
7 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 .
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