Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaker B treats this contribution as requiring an answer , following a pattern described by Labov in the rule : ‘ If ( speaker ) A makes a statement about a ( speaker ) B-event , it is heard as a request for confirmation ’ ( 1972b : 254 ) . |
| 2 | There is a distinction , originating in Freud and developed by Lacan , between ‘ need ’ , ‘ demand ’ and ‘ desire ’ in which needs can be satisfied by the adequate object ( food ) , demands , while aimed at an object , are addressed to others ( the demand for love or attention disguised as a need for food ) , while desires have no real object , relate only to fantasy , and can not be satisfied ( the desire for unity and plenitude ) . |
| 3 | The velocity concept is developed as a demand for money relationship . |
| 4 | Marriage is intended as a bond for life , and Jesus 's appeal to first principles provides us with a high view of marriage , a vivid contrast to liberal teaching then and now . |
| 5 | The surprises of God are not intended as a substitute for strategy . |
| 6 | This paper derives from an analysis of the matrix tables , and is intended as a basis for discussion . |
| 7 | At the heart of the 1982 dispute was a so-called pay factor for public services of 4 per cent , which was intended as a marker for pay rises to those working in all public services . |
| 8 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 9 | A Hollywood studio decided it was not safe to make a picture about the peacemaker , Hiawatha , because ‘ It might be regarded as a message for peace and therefore helpful to Communist designs ’ . |
| 10 | If these events became regarded as a norm for science then public confidence would be threatened . |
| 11 | During the 1950s , being an MP came once again to be regarded as a qualification for appointment to a judgeship . |
| 12 | This is made worse by the fact that five ‘ O ’ levels are the necessary qualification for a wide range of white-collar jobs , and therefore are regarded as a talisman for success . |
| 13 | The biggest problem with the diabetic clinic is that time tends to be very limited and perhaps it is best regarded as a place for assessment and the identification of problems , with a little time for education . |
| 14 | Forbes was one of the bright stars of early-nineteenth-century British biology , whose death at the age of thirty-nine was regarded as a tragedy for science . |
| 15 | The witness of an insult , or the victim of it , will feel that his dignity is impugned and regarded as a matter for contempt by the person whose conduct he witnesses . |
| 16 | ‘ The really worrying thing is that higher education is being regarded as a commodity for sale rather than something that we should invest in . |
| 17 | The Kingdom must be announced by ‘ insiders ’ and not simply treated as a subject for speculation . |
| 18 | If grouped together ( within 5″ of another chariot ) they may be treated as a unit for leadership tests testing on the value of the highest . |
| 19 | The way I see it now , it 's best treated as a problem for Immigration . |
| 20 | It is necessary to distinguish between distributable profits for company law purposes and what will be treated as a distribution for tax purposes under s209 TA 1988 . |
| 21 | The sale will also be treated as a disposal for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not saying the man should be considered as a candidate for sainthood . |
| 23 | These officers watched sacks being off-loaded into a dinghy for transfer to another vessel . |
| 24 | Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage . |
| 25 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 26 | Walcott suggested there was a three-fold division in the House of Commons at this time : the government interest , which comprised placemen , pensioners and those who in other ways were dependent upon the Court for their position ; a large body of independent back-bench MPs ; and a middle group of professional politicians , which could be divided into seven " connections " , each tied together by family and personal relationships and electoral interests , and which were caught in a struggle for power between the " ins " and " outs " . |
| 27 | So Cedric 's precious irises had to be confined to a corral for safety , and a great deal of thought had to go into making the grounds of the priory into the fine and eccentric garden it is today . |
| 28 | Throughout Edward 's reign papal policy towards England was dominated by a concern for peace within the realm . |
| 29 | Mr Barnett has also described how the public school ethos that emerged in the latter half of the last century was suffused by a contempt for technology and ‘ trade ’ . |
| 30 | The mood of that enquiry was romantically scientific , so to speak , impelled by a search for technicality based on a confident assumption that science had provided the arts with a lasting model of analytical objectivity . |