Example sentences of "as [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 4 | The federation shall act as guarantor for the liabilities of the Special Fund . |
| 5 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In classical literature , certain fairies acted as guardians for different gods . |
| 8 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
| 9 | Inspection of a copy of the syllabus for Salters ' A-level chemistry ( obtainable from the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board ) will demonstrate how appropriate the course is as preparation for a chemistry degree . |
| 10 | Most of the work done with the patient standing up aims to make his selective movements of better quality as preparation for making steps . |
| 11 | Alternatively , try rubbing over gold with a very small amount of modern PVA emulsion and glue and allowing it to dry as preparation for water-based paint . |
| 12 | He scored 102 not out , his third ton of the tour , as India decided to use the fourth and final day of the match as preparation for the second Test , which gets under way in Johannesburg on Thursday . |
| 13 | Valerie Schwartz had already , with her father Georges , a doctor from Geneva , climbed the Breithorn and Mont Blanc du Tacul as preparation for the big day . |
| 14 | This was the main value they attributed to school work experience rather than seeing it in any direct sense as preparation for engineering work . |
| 15 | Fortunately we were able to use a FIS race , in Pitztal , Austria , as preparation for the World Cup season . |
| 16 | The move was seen as preparation for ECOMOG to take on an offensive rather than merely a peacekeeping role . |
| 17 | These courses are recognised as preparation for professional registration and students can choose either general nursing or mental health nursing . |
| 18 | Whig lawyers , such as Treby and Somers , served as counsel for the defence in the bishops ' trial , a curious development considering the mutual antipathy between bishops and Whigs during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 19 | I shall continue as chairman for the present , and shall continue to edit the newsletter . |
| 20 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 21 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 22 | Carol will be happy to receive news of former students and provide information such as activities for graduates . |
| 23 | The window was barred on the outside but this did not seem unreasonable as there was only one thin wall of barbed wire as defence for the whole camp . |
| 24 | While NGOs in England have been meeting ministers and senior civil servants on a regular basis and having open discussions on subjects such as funding for voluntary environmental work via the DoE 's Environment Forum , all we have had is a typically furtive ‘ consultation ’ on Environment Wales . |
| 25 | In addition , some clauses are regulated differently according to whether the contract is made with a person dealing as a consumer or with a non-consumer. ( a ) Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 The scope of the Act The UCTA 1977 applies to clauses which seek to restrict or exclude " business liability " , which is defined as liability for breach of obligations or duties arising — ( a ) from things done or to be done … in the course of a business … ; or ( b ) from the occupation of premises used for business purposes of the occupier … |
| 26 | He also acted as auditor for a number of major international joint ventures . |
| 27 | To re-appoint Miss Dorothea Vaughan as auditor for the coming year . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The choice may be quite temporary and for limited purposes — using contingent loyalties as strategies for action . |