Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 2 | ‘ What had you in mind to pursue him for ? ’ |
| 3 | All the Secretaries of State had educational training and experience in government to fit them for their posts . |
| 4 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |
| 5 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 6 | Certain names wish to withdraw these funds from Lloyd 's , as not being within the terms governing their premium trust funds , in order to use them for their personal benefit . |
| 7 | Cells work to keep calcium at vanishingly low internal concentrations , in order to use it for signalling . |
| 8 | The notion is analogous to our understanding that we need to save up money in order to exchange it for something we wish to buy . |
| 9 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
| 10 | The second kind of implicatures come about by overtly and blatantly not following some maxim , in order to exploit it for communicative purposes . |
| 11 | If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment . |
| 12 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 13 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 14 | However fascinating the ‘ social gospel ’ has proved to historians , it was not the most important aspect of the ministry to Nonconformity : this was the need to improve the quality of ministers ' education in order to equip them for the position they had achieved in English life . |
| 15 | So also are promotional prospects , and future managers within the practice should be identified and given suitable training in order to equip them for greater responsibility . |
| 16 | God had given his Spirit to his anointed king in order to equip him for his leadership of the people . |
| 17 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |
| 18 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |