Example sentences of "for [pron] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 For every pimply , dejected murderer I can give you one who looks like a movie star , for everyone who wo n't talk , one who will gab your ear off .
2 Towards evening the Collector gave the order for everyone who could be spared from the ramparts to assemble in the hall , he wanted to say a few words to the garrison .
3 Not to have a vote , because of the guillotine and for other reasons , is to fail the very people for whom we should be speaking .
4 Most accommodation and transport is provided by independent suppliers , for whom we will accept responsibility on the terms set out as follows .
5 They could therefore intercede with him for the living , to whom they might appear , and for whom they might still work miracles .
6 They did , however have unrealised expectations about the number of clients for whom they would need to provide paid support workers even though they predicted that they would not find it necessary to provide such carers for ail clients .
7 Their approach was to run a business similar to a small City firm of solicitors , maintaining close relationships with a few senior people for whom they would provide a personal service and gain good repeat business .
8 I was n't sure for whom they would be praying .
9 The provisions of the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act make the following statutory requirements of case managers : ‘ Where it appears to a local authority that any person for whom they may provide or arrange for the provision of community care services may be in need of any such services , the authority ( a ) shall carry out an assessment of his needs for those services and ( b ) having regard to the results of that assessment , shall then decide whether his needs call for the provision by them of any such services . ’
10 ‘ Then they meet their four special clients , the ones for whom they will be a key worker .
11 They are introduced to the clients for whom they will be a key worker .
12 People often give up their own home to move into the home of the person for whom they will be caring but may lose that home as a result of the income support capital rules .
13 As soon as you have a date fixed , or even before you hear , it is a good idea to start gathering background information about the job for which you have applied and the people for whom you would be working .
14 To what extent do they appear to preclude you from making use of the skills and knowledge that you have acquired and competing with the people for whom you used to work .
15 But he had made the gesture : these were people for whom you could safely slaughter a sheep .
16 Try smaller local companies who might benefit from some publicity or for whom you could attract extra business or perhaps create an enduring and prestigious work of art .
17 In cystic fibrosis there are people who are severely ill for whom it would be justified to try treatments even at a very experimental stage .
18 But while prevention — which must include support for carers — is essential , ignorance disempowers workers , carers and elderly people themselves , for whom it could even be fatal .
19 I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in .
20 You , my comrade in arms , my friend for whom I would have given my life . ’
21 ‘ The one woman for whom I might almost leave my roulette table . ’
22 The keepers also appear to be a knowledgeable and dedicated group of people , for whom I can only express my admiration of their hard work .
23 However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience .
24 Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing .
25 Cadfael took the key from the porter , who hovered with slightly anxious sympathy , and was relieved to see a delinquent for whom he might be held responsible returning docilely to his prison .
26 At first she and Ernest had been completely mystified , for how could some solicitors they had never met have any news for them which would be ‘ to their advantage ’ ?
27 The present stance involves banning the people of the province from its ranks yet drawing up policies for them which will radically affect their lives .
28 The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services .
29 That 's okay for them we 'll be able to fix something on .
30 Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed .
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