Example sentences of "in [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 2 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 3 | We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation . |
| 4 | Therefore we are not justified in using it for a quality of material things . |
| 5 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 6 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 7 | It was already his nickname with fellow-writers such as Ezra Pound ; and , in adopting it for use by the youngest generation , he may have again wished to convey , though with slightly less emphasis , the elusive character of that animal , with its instinct for feigning and dissembling . |
| 8 | ‘ I have always gotten the sense that museums , which are very active in lobbying us for money , take the essential position : ‘ Give us the money and leave us alone ’ ’ , Brodsky announced at a hearing last week . |
| 9 | The union acted wrongfully in dismissing him for insisting on his legal rights . |
| 10 | Though he has difficulty in writing anything for publication , he is a scrupulous and painstaking examiner , and his own examination papers are carefully pondered , finely drafted works of art . |
| 11 | I have no hesitation in recommending them for steady moving water and out of the two I feel the series X is more versatile . |
| 12 | What 's the point in saving everything for a comfortable old age if you 're suffering hardship now ? |
| 13 | If you 've done the business believe in paying you for it . |
| 14 | Do not allow yourself to be pushed around by an agency that tells you they have a large number of suitable vacancies and then persists in sending you for jobs which are not within your specifications . |
| 15 | I think that people would be justified in rebuking me for deceiving them as to my whereabouts , but that I would no more have actually lied than if I had thrown my voice and said ‘ Cooee ‘ . |
| 16 | I have succeeded in completely bringing back into useful production the seven million unemployed who were so dear to all our own hearts , in keeping the German peasant on his soil despite all difficulties and in rescuing it for him , in attaining the renewed flourishing of German trade , and in tremendously promoting transportation . |
| 17 | John Wallace , one of the magistrates of the burgh of Arbroath , explained his reasons for seeking a sinecure appointment worth £50 or so for his son , by emphasising his fear that ‘ the lad will turn out but indifferently qualified for business otherways I should not give so much trouble in asking something for him … |
| 18 | Men frequently fear women 's sexual power and feel justified in blaming them for acts of male violence . |
| 19 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 20 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 21 | There may in fact be some differences in these time intervals and in other pathogenetic factors between Kock pouches and pelvic pouches , but in view of the general clinical similarities between the RP syndromes in these two forms of pouch ( Table V ) , we have felt justified in combining them for the purposes of our analysis . |
| 22 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 23 | In preparing ours for today and the whole question of thinking of being , main precedency of communion rests in our understanding erm , of ordination , which I know later we we will have time to discuss . |
| 24 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 25 | Tennis players are notoriously bad in preparing themselves for the season — and especially the ‘ off ’ season . |
| 26 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 27 | I would like to hear from anyone who has worked with a group of parents or carers of people with learning or difficulties in preparing them for their son 's daughter 's move from the family home into a group home . |
| 28 | This frequent contact with families is given strong emphasis by the prison authorities , who see it as one of the key elements both of encouraging prisoners to participate and in preparing them for successful reintegration . |
| 29 | Whether this is because their earlier success is an indicator that they have the appropriate capabilities , or because their earlier study has been important in preparing them for entry , or some combination of these , is difficult to say definitively without further research . |
| 30 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |