Example sentences of "for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was not so , why would it get funding ; you do n't get something for nothing these days … |
| 2 | We 'd be there for hours , then wake up bog-eyed and fit for nothing next morning . |
| 3 | ‘ Who paid five pound for thee seven year back ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ For thee these Hands wind up the whirling Jack , |
| 5 | The game was more enjoyable for everyone that way . |
| 6 | Those who are over thirty , and not fifty or over ( for whom nine months is the norm ) , or who have a theology degree , undertake twenty-one months . |
| 7 | Moreover , it was those that were most likely to suffer long periods of unemployment and non-employment and for whom early retirement was a realistic option , i.e. those aged 60–64 , who were most likely to say that it would be very effective in dealing with unemployment : 46 per cent , compared with 34 per cent of the 55–59 age-group and 30 per cent of those under 30 . |
| 8 | The authors of the paper do not suggest ignoring the age of the patient , quite the reverse : ‘ criteria appropriate for younger patients may not be suitable in the elderly , for whom effective stabilisation of disease , a partial remission , or a complete remission of short duration may be sufficient to achieve worthwhile prolongation of life with an acceptable quality of life . ’ |
| 9 | it would follow from these findings that the children currently being referred to clinics for anti-social behaviour are the group for whom successful intervention is the more urgently needed , to prevent personal misery for them as adults , for their spouses and children , and for the persons whom they will rob or swindle . |
| 10 | Interleukin-2 is a new treatment which offers hope to cancer patients for whom successful therapies are not available . |
| 11 | For whom MAS acts |
| 12 | Apart from these important changes , specialized antiracist work within the local state has been increasingly identified as an embarrassment by the Labour Party for whom political commitments to antiracism and multiculturalism are apparently a vote loser . |
| 13 | King of the Slums manage as much social comment in a dozen songs as others do in a decade but they belong among bands that eschew political persuasion in favour of chronicling the lives of the despairing or dispossessed , the people for whom political solutions have failed . |
| 14 | Expertly managed by Trusthouse Forte along with some of the world 's prestigious properties , the Forte Hotel Village continues to attract the most discerning Citalia guests for whom highest standards are met . |
| 15 | Lawyers for whom ducal service constituted a major part of their career were more likely to have been drawn from outside the duke 's regional orbit . |
| 16 | Lawyers for whom ducal service constituted a major part of their career were more likely to have been drawn from outside the duke 's regional orbit . |
| 17 | Boro 's second team lost the final of the North Yorkshire Trophy 28–14 to Wharfedale , for whom former West Hartlepool and Sale centre Glyn Harrison scored four tries . |
| 18 | It was they who caused a reluctant minister to accept , in 1963 , the introduction of an examination at 15 + other than O level ( the CSE examination ) specifically designed for the next 40 per cent of the ability range below the 20 per cent for whom 0 level was thought to be appropriate . |
| 19 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 20 | What will be the likely effects of such judgements on someone for whom practising meditation has become an important part of life , perhaps helping them to cope with difficulties and gain a sense of freedom and peace ? |
| 21 | Such a figure was the perfect model for the everyman figure seeking the meaning of salvation for both individual and society that Langland depicted in the weary , wet-shod Will , so vibrantly aware of the gap between the final metaphysical realities of heaven and hell and the immediate beguiling preoccupations of the field full of folk , for whom hot pies seemed more sustaining than the bread of life . |
| 22 | Mounted bird wings , stuffed mammals , galls , acorns , nests , seed heads , fungi , grasses — all sorts of natural objects were on view , or ‘ on feel ’ , for folk who ca n't see , but for whom tactile experience of different shapes and textures is a small compensation . |
| 23 | Of the 1111 women for whom vaginal delivery was planned , 467 ( 42% ) had an emergency caesarean section . |
| 24 | Treading almost on the heels of this conviction was the bogey of Havelock Wilson himself for whom many employers harboured feelings " perilously near hatred " . |
| 25 | Although an advertisement is not the place in which to list all the snags of the job it should mention fundamental conditions like shift work or weekend working so you do not waste time seeing people for whom such conditions would be unacceptable . |
| 26 | Here it would be tempting to assume , whether modestly or angrily , that there is another group of readers — the sophisticated , the expert , the professional , for whom such problems simply do n't exist , or have long since been left behind . |
| 27 | But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial . |
| 28 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , George Eliot shared in the Victorian enthusiasm for Dutch interior painting , which dwells in a similar way upon the potency of objects , eliciting from the contemplation of such things the expression of useful lives ( Fig. 81 ) , almost in the manner of medieval Flemish painters for whom such details are invariably symbolic of spiritual states . |
| 30 | While a large proportion of pupils manage to achieve multiple identities and to co-exist in a range of daily cultures , there are some pupils for whom such transitions are problematic , and for whom the inconsistencies in curriculum messages are too great . |