Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 2 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |
| 3 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 4 | John Daubney is no fool and has sought the solution because he , like many others , looks for reasons for unexpected noises occurring at 3 a. m. in the morning . |
| 5 | Thus far , the effective popularisation of basic Keynesian arguments would help strengthen a socialist case for the social planning of investment as in the interests of workers , both immediately ( in terms of employment prospects and living standards ) and in their capacity as savers for the future . |
| 6 | And that becomes the arbitrator for requests for information for the data access mechanism , whatever that happens to me be . |
| 7 | He had left Najaf in 1977 , finding asylum in France and a new operational base from which to beam his messages to the populace , such as calls for the creation of the revolutionary ‘ komitehs ’ that sprang up ‘ in many parts of the capital ’ and appeals to the army to desert . |
| 8 | The victimized workers may not have won their jobs back , but they and other workers learned about the value of self-organization at work as well as about strategies for relating to trade unions . |
| 9 | Professional attitudes and perceptions need to change , and professional knowledge and understanding about societal and cultural matters , as well as about strategies for multicultural education , need to be increased . |
| 10 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 11 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 12 | Examples of works which fall into this category are : documents produced using a word processing system ; CAD ( computer aided designs ) such as plans for a house or a new car body panel ; music written using a program designed to assist with the composition of the music ( as opposed to a program designed to write music ) ; and an accounts report produced using a spreadsheet program . |
| 13 | In classical literature , certain fairies acted as guardians for different gods . |
| 14 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
| 15 | Carol will be happy to receive news of former students and provide information such as activities for graduates . |
| 16 | Much of what was said above about contacts for clinical services also applies to GPs operating their own budgets . |
| 17 | Indeed , Fullan identified several other important ideas ; time and change , leadership and change , meaning and change , and the tension between grandeur and incrementalism as strategies for development . |
| 18 | Animals live in populations that are dispersed in characteristic ways in the environment , ways that can usually be interpreted as a function of the behaviour of individual members operating as strategies for survival and reproduction . |
| 19 | The choice may be quite temporary and for limited purposes — using contingent loyalties as strategies for action . |
| 20 | The answer is none of these things have been undertaken as strategies for the church . |
| 21 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 22 | Expressing concern about calls for Taiwan independence , he said that China had noted the Taiwan authorities ' " strong stand " against independence activists . |
| 23 | The severed heads might have continued being put on spikes as trophies for a start . |
| 24 | The residuals from the fitted line can be thought of as values for a variable which have been adjusted to take the explanatory variable into account . |
| 25 | The day began at 10 am for rehearsals for the next production but if this proved unsuccessful , it was taken off and the new production rushed on . |
| 26 | And cos the the studio is also used regularly for rehearsals for example or as you know if er local amateur company is putting on a show in the studio they 're given the use of the studio a week before the week of the show . |
| 27 | The instrument would be used for rehearsals for the festival of new musicals and would be fully insured by Buxton Opera House . |
| 28 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 29 | Full employment , competition between employers for labour and high levels of labour turnover might mean that many people are working for only a short time in any particular job . |
| 30 | ( d ) Transfers of goods and services The law has traditionally distinguished between contracts for the supply of goods and contracts for the supply of services . |