Example sentences of "by [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs : |
| 2 | That means not only that the BA could save money , but that it could make a bob or two by catering for the assembled hacks . |
| 3 | He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’ |
| 4 | Lawrence E. Walsh , the special prosecutor in charge of the Iran-contra investigation , responded to the move by suggesting for the first time that Bush was a " subject " of his inquiry . |
| 5 | The Group believed that the Children Bill further eroded the already inadequate rights of poor families by allowing for the progressive transfer of parental rights to foster-parents and by widening the powers to dispense with parental consent to adoption . |
| 6 | All these findings on the relationship between housing and unemployment are not substantially altered by allowing for the generally lower social status — and therefore higher risk of unemployment — among local authority tenants as both this study and the work of a number of other researchers has shown ( McCormick , 1983 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1987 ; Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ; an extended bibliography of the general topic of housing and labour market interactions is given in Munro , 1986 ; Labour Force Survey 1983 and 1984 , 1986 , Table 6.6 ; Sullivan and Falkingham , forthcoming , Tables 1 , 2 ) . |
| 7 | Now , by analysing a sample of customer addresses by ACORN he or she can set sales targets for each ACORN type ; and by allowing for the population in each type in each sales territory , he or she can set quotas which relate directly to the potential for business in each area . |
| 8 | By allowing for the distribution of results in random diversification , reductions in the overall risk of a randomly selected portfolio of shares may continue until the number of constituent securities reaches about thirty . |
| 9 | The van der Waals equation is where a is a constant which corrects for the attractive forces between gas molecules and b is a constant which corrects the volume of the gas by allowing for the part of the volume occupied by the gas molecules . |
| 10 | Acid output was calculated by allowing for the amount of juice produced in each time interval , and was expressed as mEq/h . |
| 11 | You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that . |
| 12 | Inspired probably by the continuing ill-feeling towards himself , Gurney had attempted to leave the Grammar School by applying for the Mastership of Wellington College early in 1855 , but the Goldsmiths declined to supply a testimonial of his conduct until he had given up his post , and his application therefore lapsed . |
| 13 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 14 | SIMON PARKE , the 17-year-old Yorkshireman , made the selectors feel a little more comfortable by qualifying for the World Open here yesterday . |
| 15 | In the Habsburg territories Joseph II treated other members of the ruling family with a studied rudeness which shocked contemporaries : in the 1780s he deeply antagonized his younger brother and successor Leopold , Grand Duke of Tuscany , by pressing for the merging of the Grand Duchy with the hereditary lands of the monarchy . |
| 16 | He could easily find out by groping for the clock , lifting it to his line of vision , and pressing the button that illuminates the digital display . |
| 17 | Obviously , sorting out the courses which are on offer can best be done by writing for the prospectus but with any application the question that will be of overriding importance is how you are going to finance your training . |
| 18 | The introduction of the steam press after 1810 reduced the price of books , allowing experts to earn a living by writing for the ever-expanding market . |
| 19 | Giardia infection can be diagnosed by looking for the parasite in the stools . |
| 20 | And now you can easily spot the best quality Scottish salmon by looking for the tartan Brand Quality Mark . |
| 21 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 22 | The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones , and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes . |
| 23 | Cut costs by looking for the sign Zimmer if you want bed and breakfast in a private house . |
| 24 | It is entered by looking for the entrance : by looking for opportunity . |
| 25 | At one-hour weekly meetings , the team started the process by looking for the symptoms of the problem , which meant pulling together all the relevant facts . |
| 26 | Check that the jacket has been made to the current British Standard by looking for the label with the " Kitemark " symbol . |
| 27 | Because one 's involved whether one likes it or not , just by caring for the person concerned . ’ |
| 28 | father replaced mother 's lost services by caring for the infant himself , the father 's services did not accrue as a result of the death . |
| 29 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 30 | To test this prediction rigorously Lucas should estimate equation ( 6.6 ) for his 18 countries jointly , imposing the restriction implied by his model that the β 1 coefficients are negatively related to the estimated variances of v. The Lucas model could then be tested along the lines suggested in chapter 3 , by testing for the validity of this restriction . |