Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family meant a great deal to him , obviously , and she had witnessed for herself his kindness and strength . |
| 2 | The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would . |
| 3 | I 'd met Masha 's husband earlier in the day , and he 'd improvised for me . |
| 4 | The SPG was , however , highly controversial and widely criticized for its behaviour at demonstrations in particular . |
| 5 | The scientific management approach was criticized for its naive preoccupation with financial or extrinsic rewards , and for ignoring intrinsic needs for affiliation , self-esteem and self-actualization . |
| 6 | Content analysis is often criticized for its ‘ merely quantitative ’ findings , but its data , while often needing further interpretation , are essential to any developed sociology of culture , not only in modern communications systems , where the large numbers of works make it inevitable , but also in more traditional kinds of work . |
| 7 | The study of landscape is one of the oldest sub-disciplines within geography , but during the quantitative revolution of the 1960s and early 1970s such work was roundly criticized for its descriptive nature and its search for uniqueness . |
| 8 | Kew was criticized for its fidelity to bedding-out and Latin plant names . |
| 9 | Although his regime was credited with having introduced a degree of economic prosperity , it was widely criticized for its disregard for human rights . |
| 10 | The HDI was widely criticized for its complexity and for a system of weighting data which gave the United States the lowest HDI of any developed country ( owing to its high illiteracy rate ) . |
| 11 | The French government was consequently widely criticized for its presentation late on Jan. 14 of new proposals , of which no inkling was given at the EC ministerial meeting . |
| 12 | Although the investigation had resulted in the conviction of 34 individuals and four corporations and secured damages of nearly $32,000,000 , it was increasingly criticized for its slow pace . |
| 13 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims . |
| 15 | The NAC " was severely criticized for its policy towards the Abyssinian war . |
| 16 | Such theories have been plausibly criticized for their romantic and Utopian strains , also for the way they echo and sometimes invoke a post-Freudian version of the polymorphous perverse . |
| 17 | The BMA were criticized for their intransigence and the pharmaceutical industry 's advertising was criticized for seeking to frighten patients . |
| 18 | A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism . |
| 19 | As before , the problems of interpreting outcomes outweigh the difficulties of assessment and some of the criteria used in research have been criticized for their cultural and class bias . |
| 20 | Of these , the latter two were especially criticized for their poor records of arrest and/or inactivity ; records perhaps best viewed in the light of the legislation they sought to enforce , the complexity of the offences they where obliged to detect , and last , but by no means least , the limited resources , in terms of finance , manpower , and expertise , made available to them . |
| 21 | Periodically revised and completed , these ‘ rules and regulations ’ bore the imprint of the administrative tradition that had hitherto governed broadcasting , and were criticized for their formalism — and insufficient recognition of the realities of broadcasting . |
| 22 | ( Cash more and Troyna , the editors of the volume in which Rex 's paper appeared , were widely criticized for their own collapse into a cultural essentialism which accused ‘ black youth ’ of being ‘ arrogant , rumbustious and contemptuous ’ and having ‘ a certain fascination for violence ’ ( 1982 , pp. 18 , 33 ) . ) |
| 23 | But the London and North-Western and the Great Western Railway companies were criticized for their poor provision of workmen 's trains in 1892 and a parliamentary select committee was still pressing for the provision of cheap trains for workers in 1905 . |
| 24 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 25 | Nicknamed the Dottore sottile ( " subtle doctor " ) , he had become reconciled in the 1980s with Craxi , whom he had previously criticized for what he regarded as his autocratic attitudes . |
| 26 | At the time , his letter was criticized for what one Gaullist called its " artificial optimism " . |
| 27 | Are you heavily criticized for your anti-republican , anti-Nationalist views ? |
| 28 | I knew it was a really tight corner and so I slowed right down and was criticized for it , ha . |
| 29 | Accordingly he dedicated the fight to ‘ black people of the world ’ , and was criticized for his sentiments . |
| 30 | Marius Steen was often criticized for his healthy disrespect for ‘ Art ’ and there are many stories of this supposed philistinism which he loved to tell against himself ( On first hearing of Michelangelo , he is reputed to have asked ‘ Michael who ? ’ |