Example sentences of "[conj] for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Whether you 're buying this set as a present , or for yourself , it makes a perfect gift .
2 ‘ You 'll never know if people want you for your looks or for yourself .
3 Christians today are not normally known for their candour about doubt or for their confident ability to resolve it .
4 Though in theory taking life was contrary to the tenets of Buddhism , it was considered more shocking to kill animals for other persons , or for their hides , than to kill for a meal .
5 HUNDREDS of Tibetans have been imprisoned since late 1987 for taking part in demonstrations in favour of Tibetan independence from China or for their peaceful expression of dissent from Government policies in Tibet .
6 Or for their troop movements .
7 Simplicity There is no need for countries to decide what constitutes the appropriate exchange rate or for their general agreement on whether deficit or surplus countries are responsible for the adjustment burden .
8 " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith .
9 The launch of the Front was placed in some jeopardy when on Oct. 17 the Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) denounced 14 of the organizations taking part in the conference for either having participated in apartheid structures or for their racial make-up .
10 As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ .
11 The association of the beakers with the gods and the spirit world could support a further idea that their purchasers might drink to their chosen deity either in thanks for a favour granted or for one to come .
12 Dorian Gray describes moments when ‘ the passion for sin , or for what the world calls sin ’ is utterly overwhelming
13 Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death .
14 No responsibility for what he did or for what happens to him afterwards .
15 Then , in mid December , under pressure from the museum 's board of trustees , he resigned , stating , ‘ a resignation — no matter whose or for what — is always a sad event , but , in this case , the best interests of a great museum have been kept firmly in mind ’ .
16 Nagel observes that ‘ it is intuitively plausible that people can not be morally assessed for what is not their fault , or for what is due to factors beyond their control ’ .
17 If we hope to understand human language and the psychological capacities on which it rests , we must first ask what it is , not how or for what purposes it is used .
18 ‘ You have no idea who might have taken it , or for what purpose ? ’
19 With the best will in the world , I am not responsible for what was said over the weekend or for what may to be a contradiction .
20 For deep in the vaults of Protestant Kirks there are no altars to the dead and no prayers to them or for them .
21 No date has yet been set for England to tour Pakistan — or for them to return here .
22 Mike Rosen , poet and broadcaster , was the champion of a strategy for reading dependent on enthusing readers by offering them books which they could enjoy , books which had been chosen by them or for them by people who knew about children 's books .
23 And er that they they still , even when I have to do things , which are not very erm happy either for me or for them , erm I 'll just give the example of removing a child from
24 Over centuries gypsies have been persecuted in varying degrees ; but now they are as much the victims of general trends and events taking place without regard to or for them .
25 ‘ First , had I chosen to have an abortion or for him to be allowed to die , I would have made the biggest mistake of my life .
26 He noted how frequently she made excuses for their hands to touch or for him to lift her down from her horse .
27 Is that for you or for him , I asked .
28 He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment .
29 It was not uncommon , even by Edward II 's time , for a benefice to be forcefully defended against a royal presentee , or for him to be physically assaulted .
30 This in turn implies that the two generalizations already hinted at-that it was not normal practice either for the kasabat kadi to return to the medrese stream or for him to make the jump to the mevleviyet kadiliks were by then established : both are , of course , in a sense implicit in the Kanunname in so far as neither eventuality is mentioned , though , equally , neither is specifically excluded .
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