Example sentences of "for [pron] [noun sg] [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A review of screening and preventive care of older people by the Royal College of General Practitioners published in 1987 indicated particular ‘ high risk ’ groups for whom screening might be targeted . |
| 2 | She had been prodded , probed , examined and X-rayed on numerous occasions , but no cause for her ill-heath could be unearthed . |
| 3 | The courts will always wish to retain a residual and undefined discretion to deal with unexpected cases but the scope for its operation must be kept as narrow as possible . |
| 4 | Some shape names are complex and , if pupils have a limited appreciation of the properties of a shape , it is not likely that their memory for its name will be enduring . |
| 5 | Any piece of ‘ glass ’ that feels too lightweight for its size must be checked with greater care . |
| 6 | To offer purely economic criteria for its identity would be to slide back into economism . |
| 7 | The king himself was not paid ( although Edward Balliol , ‘ king ’ of Scots , drew payment both in times of war and peace ) but dukes received 13s. 4d ; earls 6s. 8d ; knights-baneret 4s ; knights-bachelor 2s ; and esquires 1s ; these last sums corresponding proportionately to the amount each might expect to spend on a horse ( as outlined above ) whose value was agreed in advance , so that compensation for its loss could be paid by the crown . |
| 8 | An ESO will remain in force for one year , but at any time within three months before its expiry date an application for its extension may be made to the court . |
| 9 | The reason for prescribing this medication , and the plan for its use should be explained to the patient and agreed upon before a prescription is supplied . |
| 10 | Most commonly , this might relate to a right of way across the neighbouring property , and details as to whether or not that right has been interrupted or whether charges have been made for its use will be required . |
| 11 | After it , a new plan for its future may be presented officially to the Scottish Office . |
| 12 | The articulating principle governing the social meaning of this music for its audience must be defined in terms of a conjunction of new representations of leisure , the body , gender relations and capitalist consumption , tied in turn to the objectively new social-economic position of this audience in post-war capitalist society . |
| 13 | When the specific concrete practices of several such groups have been identified , then a new and theoretically grounded basis for their classification may be achieved . |
| 14 | Abbey National , the second biggest mortgage lender , said claims for their cover must be made within four months . |
| 15 | It would be improbable that men totally unqualified for their rank would be placed in a fleet commanded by the patron whose own career might be damaged by inefficiency , but given the situation in the fleet , of far more qualified applicants than available places , the choice was likely to fall upon a friend of a friend . |
| 16 | This suggests , I think , that I must refine my earlier criterion in the following way : it is wrong for a person to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desire , and only allowable for them to be treated , with their consent , as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , if no other means for their satisfaction can be made available . |
| 17 | This was , and is , a particularly sensitive area for the average solicitor for their monopoly could be recognised by any member of the public and was a highly visible cost to anyone buying or selling a house . |
| 18 | ‘ Whilst there may be sanctuary men and sanctuary women — ’ he pointed out , producing as it were his trump card , ‘ — since children can commit no crime for which asylum would be needed , the privilege of sanctuary can not be extended to them . |
| 19 | The fact that the endometrial sampling is not listed in the statement of fees and allowances ( section 42 , minor surgery ) as a minor surgical procedure for which payment may be made would preclude most from adding vabra curettage to their repertoire . |
| 20 | The change in the hours for which payment may be claimed accounted for 33.8% ( 536/1584 ) of all night visits in the sample . |
| 21 | … ( 6 ) Schedule 12 to this Act has effect for the purposes of this section and , in that Schedule — ( a ) Part I prescribes the matters for which provision must be made by a scheme if it is to be a scheme which qualifies for recognition for the purposes of this section ; ( b ) Part II prescribes the matters action in relation to any of which must be subject to investigation under a scheme if it is to qualify for recognition for the purpose of investigations in relation to that matter ; and ( c ) Part III contains other requirements to which a scheme must conform if it is to be so recognised . |
| 22 | Dealers take account of the areas sown with each kind of grain , of the forwardness and weight of the crops , of the supply of things which can be used as substitutes for grain , and of the things for which grain can be used as a substitute . |
| 23 | Thus , the findings are not ones for which generality can be claimed . |
| 24 | There will have to be agreement about the significance and relationship between the variables involved in the planning process , before these variables can be accepted as those for which research must be carried out , and forecasts made . |
| 25 | Many plants are left to self-sow and thinned with a hoe , while others are grown from saved seed , but there are always some varieties for which seed must be bought . |
| 26 | The nature of the movements for which plant can be covered is defined under the heading ‘ Scope of Operations ’ . |
| 27 | A very similar sort of enterprise has been engaged in by philosophers interested in the notion of speech act ( addressed in Chapter 5 ) : either by examining a special set of verbs called performative verbs , or by more abstract conceptual analysis , they arrive at classifications of the basic purposes for which language can be used ( see e.g. Searle , 1976 ) . |
| 28 | Husameddin adds that an " ostensible reason zahirde bir sebeb ) for his going may be found in his desire to meet with Shaykh Zayn al-Din Muhammad Khawafi ( Seyh Zeyneddin ) , who was then making his way toward the Hijaz from Khorasan . |
| 29 | The text of Stella celi is an invocation for deliverance from plague , and may have been written in the summer of 1479 , when an outbreak assailed the staff of St George 's ; beyond this , no chronology for his work can be suggested . |
| 30 | His clothes were later found by the side of a canal in which his body was discovered a week later ; no clear reason for his death could be discerned . |