Example sentences of "for assessing the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the Kentish examples were reported as being found with touchstones , used for assessing the purity of gold ( Moore and Oddy 1985 ) .
2 Credit Scoring : a numerical system for assessing the eligibility of a loan applicant .
3 You should also work into it check lists for each month with every detail you can think of , and have an arrangement for assessing the event after it has happened .
4 Whereas a patient living inside a hospital has one named doctor — the consultant — in charge of his or her treatment and one named person — the ward sister — responsible for the nursing care he or she receives , outside the walls of the hospital no one person is responsible for assessing the individual 's needs for a range of services and for then making sure that the required services are delivered .
5 Our criterion for assessing the models is simple .
6 The grids were used for assessing the position most appropriate for bisection of the crypts ( Fig 1 ) .
7 This only confirms already-existing customary law ; and inasmuch as it depends on proving an actual intent partially or completely to destroy a particular group , it may be of only limited relevance as a basis for assessing the legality of nuclear possession or use .
8 The third method for assessing the effects of exposure is one in which the subjects are required to learn a discrimination between pre-exposed stimuli ( or between the pre-exposed stimulus and some other ) .
9 Long-inbred populations might be useful for assessing the effects of new mutations .
10 Public examination statistics have regularly been collected although difficulties of establishing comparability over time , and across different examination boards and subjects , have reduced their usefulness for assessing the performance of the education system as a whole .
11 UK employers now have nationally recognised competence-based standards for assessing the performance and capabilities of their managers .
12 We have no mechanism for assessing the success or failure of forwarded enquiries .
13 There are a whole set of statistical techniques for assessing the probability that the observed differences between the two groups could have resulted from chance .
14 self-checking tests for assessing the student 's progress .
15 The purpose of the test is to provide an objective basis for assessing the nature and extent of participants ' alcohol knowledge before and after doing the course .
16 The principal objective of the research is to utilise an examination of the policy making and policy implementation process relating to the telecommunications sectors as a focal device for assessing the nature of Japanese government-industry relations ( GIR ) and comparing this with process in the UK .
17 The research will provide a basis for assessing the nature of the politics of race at the local level .
18 From April 1993 , social services will be responsible for assessing the needs of people , who may require residential or nursing home care .
19 These doctors frequently have the sole responsibility for assessing the needs of patients who are brought to hospitals , for instance to casualty wards , in the middle of the night .
20 The profession was well aware of its tenuous position and the Council of the Law Society was under pressure from members to defend their favoured status and the scale fee , a form of price fixing , for assessing the charge to clients .
21 ‘ It shall be the duty of every director of a building society to satisfy himself that the arrangements made for assessing the adequacy of the security for any advance to be fully secured on land which is to be made by the society are such as may reasonably be expected to ensure that — ( a ) an assessment will be made on the occasion of each advance whether or not any previous assessment was made with a view to further advances or re-advances ; ( b ) each assessment will be made by a person holding office in or employed by the society who is competent to make the assessment and is not disqualified under this section from making it ; ( c ) each person making the assessment will have furnished to him a written report on the value of the land and any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value , and is not disqualified under this section from making a report on , the land in question ; but the arrangements need not require each report to be made with a view to a particular assessment so long as it is adequate for the purpose of making the assessment .
22 Procedure Audit can be used to examine and review any of these , not as a financial tool or a means of apportioning blame for failure , but as a device for assessing the effectiveness of a procedure and the efficient use of associated resources .
23 The following charts are useful for assessing the severity of a problem .
24 The severity of antral gastritis was scored using the method of Rauws et al , which we have found to be a sensitive method for assessing the severity of H pylori -induced gastritis .
25 Paradoxically , the very accuracy of these scoring systems for assessing the severity of illness precludes their use for comparison and audit .
26 While useful for assessing the severity of illness of individual patients or groups of patients , physiological data that can be influenced by medical and nursing intervention , such as that obtained by the APACHE II score , can not , paradoxically , be used to compare unit performances and must not be used for audit .
27 what methods are available for assessing the efficiency of health care programmes and treatments ;
28 Methods for assessing the efficiency of health care programmes
29 This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) .
30 In patients with atlantoaxial impaction , however , odontoid erosion and osteoporosis may make plain radiographs inadequate for assessing the extent of cranial settling and resultant penetration of the odontoid into the foramen magnum .
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