Example sentences of "for [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Guide books are arranged to suit the convenience of the traveller , for whom routes round a city or a site are often suggested . |
| 10 | In this study the biweekly bulletin Hue and Cry , which listed descriptions of persons for whom magistrates had issued warrants , provides the necessary data . |
| 11 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 12 | They were a generation for whom Beats , jazz , art , and existentialism was what Paris was really about , not the hedonistic , free-spirited outburst of the revolution . |
| 13 | If there has been no irregularity , the law does not mend or amend contracts merely for the relief of those for whom things have not turned out well . |
| 14 | While writing this book I have tried to avoid , where possible , medical language that refers to people with mental disorder exclusively as ‘ patients ’ , a race for whom doctors and other professionals make all the decisions , whether the ‘ patient ’ likes it or not . |
| 15 | Reagan actually began his first term with an approval rating lower than that of any other president for whom records are available . |
| 16 | Thought will have to be given now to players discouraged previously , including Ramprakash , who has had a raw deal while Hick has been favoured , and the hapless Fairbrother , for whom critics always seek reasons for non-selection . |
| 17 | He saw it as a struggle between the desires of the bourgeoisie , for whom sports were ‘ mere entertainment ’ and for whom play was merely a recuperative process following the real work of labour , and , the desires of the common people for whom games were ‘ an alternative life-activity in their own right ’ . |
| 18 | The workers for whom employers competed were not merely the ones with the bargaining strength to make unions practicable , but also those most aware that ‘ the market ’ alone guaranteed them neither security nor what they thought they had a right to . |
| 19 | A resource allocation is a complete description of what , how , and for whom goods are produced . |
| 20 | The new proposals specify a list of 58 industries for whom audits would be compulsory . |
| 21 | One of the attractions of that district , he remarked , was the proximity of the Thames , particularly so for him , for whom rivers had a particular fascination . |
| 22 | The identification of certain antecedent risk factors is needed in order that a high-risk group can be selected for whom events of certain types may indeed provoke or precipitate psychiatric disorder . |
| 23 | Certainly the author of ‘ The Man Who Was King ’ for whom savages were interesting , if rather silly , became the reader of the romantically tinged Frazer , but essentially Eliot 's view of ‘ civilization ’ went deeper than gramophones . |
| 24 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 25 | Where TVEI is designed to be only a part of a pupil 's curriculum in the 14–18 age range , the CPVE has , in contrast , been designed explicitly for that section of the pupil population for whom A-levels are inappropriate , but who wish to achieve some further , more vocationally relevant qualification at school . |
| 26 | For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference . |
| 27 | These networks , which included certain kinds of neighbouring , included those for whom ties of kinship were of primary significance . |
| 28 | He saw it as a struggle between the desires of the bourgeoisie , for whom sports were ‘ mere entertainment ’ and for whom play was merely a recuperative process following the real work of labour , and , the desires of the common people for whom games were ‘ an alternative life-activity in their own right ’ . |
| 29 | A special class of prose-speakers for whom verse-speakers descend to the lower level are clowns , who may sing lyrics or speak verse for satiric purposes , but who are almost invariably addressed in prose the moment they appear . |
| 30 | It would appear , from more recent studies , that food additives are important in a great many children with hyperkinetic syndrome , but that it is unusual to find a child for whom additives are the sole problem . |