Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] for [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sensitivity to oil fumes , coal smoke , paraffin fumes and other odours from heating systems can be tested for in the same way . |
| 2 | The need for a pragmatic component in an integrated theory of linguistic ability can be argued for in various ways . |
| 3 | Similar remarks can be made for at least some examples of metaphor . |
| 4 | As a rule of thumb , a pre-sensitised board can be exposed for between 5 and 10 minutes using an ordinary UV light box . |
| 5 | An excess of gain even at low settings ( ie. from an active bass with powerful pickups ) can be compensated for with the lower of the two white switches , which operates a 15dB attenuation ‘ pad ’ to clean up the signal . |
| 6 | A lower dividend yield can be compensated for with higher capital gains and vice versa . |
| 7 | This can be compensated for by applying a correction based on the knowledge of the appropriate Mark-Houwink relations for each , the standard and the unknown , measured in the solvent used for elution . |
| 8 | Losses which can be claimed for under the Act are death , personal injuries and any loss of or damage to property ( s. 5(1) ) . |
| 9 | Intermediate targets may be genuine targets which can be aimed for in their own right or they may be spurious targets if they are just subdivisions of the journey to the main target . |
| 10 | Individual work can be catered for by drill and practice programs and pupils who have advanced beyond others or who have a problem in class , may move aside to the microcomputer and go through a program which acts as a revision aid or reinforcement medium . |
| 11 | During the day , the Acropolis is not to be missed and souvenirs can be bartered for in the Flea market . |
| 12 | Chosen Heritage Ltd. has a scheme whereby a firm instruction can be given for a guaranteed price funeral which can be paid for at today 's prices . |
| 13 | The local authority will make enquiries to see if the funeral can be paid for by a relative . |
| 14 | To stand a full chance of winning , contestants have to subscribe for a Readers Digest gardening book which can be paid for by Barclaycard . |
| 15 | This can be done under the Planning Acts by way of a Special Development Order ( SDO ) , or it can be provided for in a Private Act concerned specifically with a project . |
| 16 | There are two ways in which it can be provided for in later reorganizations of the file . |
| 17 | This can be allowed for by the winch or car driver reducing the power slightly . |
| 18 | This can be allowed for by recognizing that χ 1 is actually a free energy parameter comprising entropic χ H and enthalpic χ S contributions , such that . |
| 19 | Where lead times are certain , they can be allowed for in stock calculations . |
| 20 | Such important considerations can be allowed for in licensing negotiation so that the issues are properly addressed . |
| 21 | The Tube is an interesting piece of equipment which can be used for at least six different purposes . |
| 22 | More hostility exists than can be accounted for on political and economic theories of the Marxist type . |
| 23 | Current high levels of unemployment can be accounted for without recourse to an explanation from technology ; consumer appetite for yet more goods and services still appears to be insatiable ; and even those economists who advance reasons why new technology might cause unemployment at some point in the future acknowledge that just at present the likelihood is that it will cause labour shortages rather than an overall labour surplus . |
| 24 | This ambiguity can be accounted for without the need either for two different elements enter , or two different elements again , if we regard the meaning of enter as being constituted out of more elementary semantic entities which are related quasi-syntactically : |
| 25 | Of those which are more than mundane , or artefacts of administrative or file-keeping practices , some can be accounted for in terms of plausible expectations of the organizational models , others only indirectly so , and yet others more difficult to explain . |
| 26 | This means that an ambiguous word form set in a disambiguating context may well carry more information than can be accounted for in terms of interaction between the context-independent meaning of the word form , and the semantic properties of the context . |
| 27 | Thru subverts the literary theory which has as its premise that every narrative contains a meaning and that this meaning can be accounted for in terms of a universal ‘ elementary structure of signification ’ which posits woman as an object of exchange between men . |
| 28 | That the concept of a target real wage rate can be accounted for in terms of the behaviour of rational , maximizing agents is amply demonstrated in the works of Layard , of Carlin and Soskice ( 1990 ) and of the works of the new Keynesian school ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 29 | How much of eighteenth century poetry can be accounted for by this term is arguable , yet the idea is certainly useful with respect to Mary Leapor . |
| 30 | And the same change throughout the industry can be accounted for by the functional fact that only those firms which made this change would have survived the competition . |