Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each generation of workers is in effect paying for its predecessors ' pensions , in the confident hope that the next generation will pay for theirs . |
| 2 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 3 | This might occur if general practices encouraged a partner with a special interest in diabetes to care for their diabetic patients ; if practices are well equipped as part of a commitment to quality of care ; if the practice has access to dietitian services — most appropriately , perhaps , through the training of practice nurses in dietetics ; and , in such well organised practices , if only those patients with special problems are referred to hospital diabetic clinics . |
| 4 | She hated to think of his sister lying in hospital waiting for her husband to come to her while all the time he was with Dana . |
| 5 | These several claims justify a commitment to consistency in principle valued for its own sake . |
| 6 | The rest of the class then use these pictures as evidence , discussing the implications of what they are shown in order to plan for their next journey back in time . |
| 7 | But when their parent can no longer be left alone and they decide , as many of them do , to leave work in order to care for her full time , their major problems begin . |
| 8 | For example , once the village pub changes its tone in order to cater for its new clientele , the farm worker is easily alienated — and may even be made to feel unwelcome among the gin-and-tonics and prawn cocktails . |
| 9 | In the middle of November the Eliots travelled to America , where he made five public appearances in order to pay for their forthcoming holiday in Barbados after Christmas — as long as he could " hobble up a stage " , he could still pay for such trips . |
| 10 | In order to pay for their drugs , many users get involved in crime including house breaking and male or female prostitution . |
| 11 | His son 's incarceration at the Belle Grove Asylum cost £200 per year and by the 1780s he was having to dispose of properties in London and Middlesex in order to pay for his European journeys . |