Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the constitutional changes voted for by members of the RICS , subject to Privy Council approval , herald a relaxation of those restrictions . |
| 2 | Candidates tend in Ireland to be voted for by electors who know them , and they must be selected with this in mind . |
| 3 | One of the main set of attributes looked for by employers in their recruits is their ability to find interesting , creative and workable solutions to problems . |
| 4 | It was a day like those searched for by Northerners in the south of France or the Greek islands . |
| 5 | The increase in the industrial trade deficit was partly compensated for by surpluses on services and tourism so that the current-account deficit remained small in relation to gross domestic product ( GDP ) ( under 0.4 per cent ) . |
| 6 | It appears that the surfeit rings in the crystal are compensated for by holes at the lattice sites . |
| 7 | On Monday she had gone to her job — improbably she appeared to be a supervisor for a market research firm — as usual , and could be vouched for by colleagues there . |
| 8 | Action was called for in matters both of housing quality and quantity , and of distribution according to need . |
| 9 | We understand that even at 40MHz Pentium produces twice the heat called for in simulations and , embarrassingly for Intel , will require a heat sink and fan no matter what . |
| 10 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast . |
| 11 | The number of people so disabled by their distress that they have had to be cared for in institutions is relatively small . |
| 12 | The number of people who are so disabled by their distress that they have to be cared for in institutions is very small indeed . |
| 13 | A further 25,000 are cared for in homes run by voluntary organizations and 78,000 are cared for in private residential care . |
| 14 | The family who has to care for children whether they 've got disabilities or not and the whole intention of this Act is that children are best cared for by parents and any alternative is second best . |
| 15 | Alzheimer patients may never present to medical attention but die in the community either undiagnosed or cared for by relatives who have never sought medical investigation . |
| 16 | He has now been located and is being cared for by relatives . |
| 17 | Leanne has two young children who were last night being cared for by relatives . |
| 18 | Human children , if they are to survive and become adults , must be cared for by adults at least until adolescence . |
| 19 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 20 | This P–59 is to be cared for by members of Edwards ’ 6515th Organisational Maintenance Squadron so her preservation and upkeep seem assured . |
| 21 | If all diabetics were looked after solely by general practitioners , undoubtedly some would be cared for by doctors without a real interest in the subject . |
| 22 | Children cared for by grandmothers or foster mothers during their first three or four years often have great difficulty when they return to live with their natural parents or a new step-parent . |
| 23 | They were cared for by friends at their home in nearby Witney . |
| 24 | Her parents spent weeks sleeping on a hospital floor , while her sister , Caroline was being cared for by friends . |
| 25 | Divorce and remarriage of the middle generation will affect the care of elderly people , for how many ex-in-laws are likely to be cared for by ex-sons and daughters-in-law ? |
| 26 | He would continue to be cared for by nurses . |
| 27 | It is true to say that the only overweight animals are those cared for by humans who take more notice of the time on the clock than of natural feelings of hunger . |
| 28 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 29 | The St John 's Hospital allows a glimpse of early health care , with mock-ups to show how the patients were housed in rows of wooden cots , and cared for by nuns and friars . |
| 30 | Among the pastoralists of East Africa women produce most of the foodstuffs through agriculture , but only cattle , cared for by men , are defined as the really important and noble product , and in fact women 's dominant productive contribution is given as an excuse for their social devaluation as low creatures unconcerned with the aesthetic and political value of pastoralism . |