Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are , the chapter says , creating new pressures for the extension of joint regulation which ‘ inevitably raise the question whether existing institutions can be developed to provide for employee involvement at this level , or whether new institutions are needed . ’ |
| 2 | The earlier Lectures have shown how the conclusions need to be modified to allow for market distortions , imperfect competition , unemployment , the accumulation of capital over time , etc . |
| 3 | Labour social security spokesman Donald Dewar said : ‘ Claimants should not be made to pay for Government 's economic incompetence . ’ |
| 4 | The present store area within the Exhibition Hall should be freed to allow for conversion to classroom use . |
| 5 | Moreover , in the Opticks he identified seven colours in the spectrum and described a circle divided into seven segments that could be used to account for colour mixing . |
| 6 | The issue system will issue and discharge books and items in the normal way but can also be used to search for information and to produce overdues . |
| 7 | Provided the number of information arrivals is sufficiently large , the central limit theorem can be used to argue for normality in the distributions of price changes ( over a given number of information arrivals ) , and volume ( over a given number of information arrivals ) . |
| 8 | If there is still any doubt , the LIFESPAN validation program can be used to check for self consistency of the database . |
| 9 | Many are funded and developed in conjunction with the Science and Engineering Research Council and may be used to qualify for postgraduate diplomas or an MSc . |
| 10 | Its wording on financial compensation , moreover , fell well short of UK suggestions that frozen Iraqi assets could be used to compensate for loss or damage suffered by Kuwaitis ( the Kuwaiti central bank governor having estimated on Oct. 17 that a restored Kuwaiti government would seek $12,000 million in compensation for looting , theft or damage ) . |
| 11 | Mr Altman has worked out what yield spreads above those on Treasuries would be needed to compensate for default rates at current levels . |
| 12 | And the dancers dancing , the pipers piping , drummers drumming and lords a-leaping could be persuaded to perform for charity . |
| 13 | Obviously , a number of simplifying assumptions have been made here , but the model can be elaborated to allow for price elasticity of demand , differences in learning rates , differences in cost of capital , and so on . |
| 14 | Interviews Most candidates are not interviewed , but a candidate may be invited to attend for interview if the Admissions Committee feels it would be particularly helpful . |
| 15 | Around Oz , The Little Red Schoolbook , Last Exit To Brooklyn , the ‘ experts ’ would again be summoned to testify for liberalism and freedom of expression , but the cases would become inextricably blurred with others , about drugs , and , by 1972 , about political challenges to the state . |
| 16 | people should not be compelled to pay for fuel in arrears — that is , they should be allowed prepayment meters if they want them ; and easy-payment schemes should be boosted . |
| 17 | For instance , at the most basic level , the higher the profit margin the supplier receives for performing a contract , the greater the liability he can reasonably be asked to accept for failure to perform as promised . |
| 18 | The noodles are very thin and simply require boiling water to be poured over them and should then be left to steep for 3–4min . |
| 19 | In 1777 Wolf himself , then a prospective student at Göttingen , had to fight to be allowed to enrol for philology : there was no such " subject " then . |
| 20 | Mexico would not privatize PEMEX , the state oil company , while US and Canadian oil companies would not be allowed to explore for oil in Mexico , nor operate refineries or open petrol stations there . |
| 21 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 22 | Perhaps I may be allowed to paraphrase for brevity from Scientists against Time by J. P. Baxter in his official account of the American Office of Scientific Research and Development : |
| 23 | * Tea should be allowed to brew for 4–5min — frenzied stirring of leaves and bashing of bags forces the flavour and emphasises the tannin . |
| 24 | The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period . |
| 25 | This action centred-account can be extended to allow for conflict between local interests and system forces expressed through the state system and becomes analytically interesting when there is a radical working-class political domination of local government . |
| 26 | But it does emphasize that they must be extended to allow for membership to be endogenous in order to deal with some of the questions raised . |
| 27 | In some circumstances , the course of the trial will be such that a witness whose affidavit has been received will after all be required to attend for cross-examination ; this applies no less to witnesses abroad as to those within the jurisdiction . |
| 28 | Such small firms will be required to account for VAT once a year , and then only on bills actually paid . |
| 29 | Every applicant could be required to apply for leave to make a judicial review application . |
| 30 | These codes apply to conduct which may involve risk issues as well as other situations , and members may be held to account for behaviour which falls short of the required standard . |