Example sentences of "for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 2 | You are not allowed to move the child from his/her home until the court has decided what is best for him/her child . |
| 3 | Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class . |
| 4 | For everyone energy is limited , a precious commodity . |
| 5 | We should reject this government claptrap and campaign for a pension age of sixty for everyone men and women , with proper protected rights for women . |
| 6 | Kevin D'Silva , 42 , is another professional manager for whom success this recession is second time around . |
| 7 | The results are based on prices obtained in public auctions between 1980 and 1991 in almost all Christie 's and Sotheby 's sales ; this includes drawings by sixty-eight representative artists for whom drawings turn up frequently , including Cambiaso , Rosa , the two Tiepolos , Rubens , Van Goyen , De Wit , Verdier and Boucher . |
| 8 | On November 2 , a youngster named Paul Rideout netted two penalties for Swindon Town in that club 's 4-2 victory against Tranmere , for whom Owen Brown and John Kerr scored . |
| 9 | Arius received support from scholarly and politically powerful bishops , in particular from the learned church historian Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine , a man for whom Constantine came to have great respect . |
| 10 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 11 | But if the comparison between those who had been in a home and others is confined to those for whom relatives , neighbours or friends were interviewed , there is still a difference : 31 per cent against 19 per cent . |
| 12 | The difference between those spending all and those spending some of the last twelve months in a home persisted when the analysis is confined to those for whom relatives responded . |
| 13 | The records of the Clifton Club ( for Whom Collins played the occasional game ) show four instances of a side batting throughout the period of play . |
| 14 | Initially it appears as an act of balance , with vigorous debate between those who think that censorship is never worth it , and those for whom pornography is so dangerous that censorship is not too high a price at all . |
| 15 | Other surveys have identified the walking problems of the handicapped , for whom accessibility to shops and services is so frequently a problem . |
| 16 | Funded by the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Henry Moore Foundation and the North West Museums Service , the extension will mean , says the director , Mary Gavagan ‘ that an important fine art collection will now be on display not only for the university population but also for the general public ’ , even those with mobility problems for whom ramps and chairlifts will give access to the works of among others Chillida , Derain , Miro , Max Ernst and Terry Frost . |
| 17 | Nevertheless the proportion for whom payment was thought to have been something of a problem was 7 per cent of all those in old people 's homes ( 15 per cent for private ones , 6 per cent for others ) and 17 per cent of those in nursing homes — further differences which did not reach statistical significance . |
| 18 | The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation , for whom Hoyle first wrote his paper , comes to his defence and expounds the relationship between school and the individual in the following way : |
| 19 | The debates side-stepped into discussions of desire in some areas , maintaining some political divisions between women and creating new ones , while the strongest artworks which imaged women 's bodies came from those for whom visibility was still a fundamental issue , particularly black women . |
| 20 | They had a generally depressive effect on domestic rice prices , and threatened to undermine the prosperity of the majority of domestic farmers for whom rice was still a staple crop . |
| 21 | Terms of Endearment had her wobbly-eyed and puffy-lipped for days , particularly when I pointed out to her that it was Shirley MacLaine 's performance which won the Oscar , not Debra Winger , for whom Oscars should have been invented . |
| 22 | ONCE UPON a time The Face was the style bible not of gits in fake fur-trimmed parkas and yups looking for new big ties , but of crazy over-made-up early '80s youth , for whom mum 's old curtains and too much eye-liner signified SEX and REVOLUTION . |
| 23 | Fisher ( 1990 ) has pointed out that the community care reforms are based upon a conception of case management which takes little account of those people for whom services have , mandatorily , to be provided , but who refuse to accept them . |
| 24 | To those for whom law is a simple command , legal by virtue of the source from which it comes , it is not likely that such complexities as these will be popular . |
| 25 | There is , however , no need to look for metaphors in the struggles of labouring women , including Mary Leapor , for whom education was a barely attainable luxury . |
| 26 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 27 | A two dimensional structure was proposed that analysed programmes according to : ( 1 ) the groups for whom education is provided ; and ( 2 ) different factors affecting changes in resource allocation . |
| 28 | This view is backed up by the fact that Novell and Banyan ( for whom 100Base-VG support is just a matter of writing new drivers ) are on board . |
| 29 | For example , students , both at secondary school and university , for whom activism rather than strategic thinking has been the prime consideration in the struggle , have to be persuaded to co-operate . |
| 30 | Despite couchettes , electrification , high-speed trains , restaurant cars , and the arrival of the car and aeroplane , there are still travellers for whom rail journeys hold a particular magic , and places in the world where a journey by rail is almost as adventurous as Gladys Aylward 's . |