Example sentences of "for [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He complained that recruitment was being carried out under the banner of a management consultancy service without being accounted for or charged for separately . |
| 2 | Despite political struggle , scientific advances and social battles , some things can not be changed , marched for or campaigned against . |
| 3 | Commercial enquiries are few in number , and are either charged for or dealt with in a quid pro quo manner . |
| 4 | If you are going to eat in the kitchen make sure overall lights arc on a dimmer switch and that there is enough light over the table — use a rise-and-fall light fixture for example — which can , of course , be substituted for or combined with candlelight at night . |
| 5 | Leisure was something people never planned for or thought about . |
| 6 | In America , and in his memories of a life still to be wished for although lost and gone for ever , that boy could be glimpsed in Eliot also . |
| 7 | Mr Chairman I believe I have the floor and I would also say that contrary to what we 've just been told there are people employed by what was called and three to four hundred people are employed , they 're not effected other than fifteen people , fifteen people were not effected by this statement and there are some hundred and eighty people who still work for and connected with the project . |
| 8 | The Patents Information Network has been established by the British Library to enable the public to find out what patents are being applied for and granted in this country and elsewhere . |
| 9 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 10 | It is a collective expression of extensive opposition to — even outrage at — the attempt by Henry VIII and Arran to stampede the Scots , the moment the opportunity appeared to present itself , into a complete denial of their long tradition of independence fought for and achieved in the teeth of English aggression . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many schools in Hampshire have now applied for and achieved grant-maintained status ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 12 | Four schools in Hampshire have applied for and achieved grant-maintained status . |
| 13 | Obviously where an agency contractual or ostensible has been created and the agent behaves improperly , whether by exercising undue influence upon or by making false representations to the surety , then the creditor will be held vicariously responsible for and affected by the acts of the agent committed in the execution of the agency . |
| 14 | Minutes later the gift was paid for and placed in her arms , and James went upstairs to visit the man 's sick wife . |
| 15 | That City is attacked in The Rock , but ‘ this London of ours ’ is also celebrated as a city to be worked for and redeemed by a Christianity sometimes remarkably primitive , a pared-down Christianity among the wild men , as a London church is seen as a ‘ House ’ built of |
| 16 | Predisposing factors must be searched for and treated . |
| 17 | When this loss is allowed for and expressed in terms of an annual ( negative ) return over the holding period , it is possible to derive a redemption yield comprised of both running yield minus annualised capital loss . |
| 18 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 19 | And because it is always uncertain whether a new system of regulation can be smoothly established when the old one breaks down , the regulationist approach does not share world-system theories ' perspective of inexorable capitalist expansion in which all developments are seen as functional for and planned by capital as a whole . |
| 20 | Home-produced building materials , such as bricks and other refractories , adjust themselves to the prospective demand indicated by the numbers of houses contracted for and begun . |
| 21 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 22 | Short-term wage work is work that is paid for and contracted for a specific period of time , whether that be a day or a season . |
| 23 | He was arrested for and charged with obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty , and his conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada . |
| 24 | Progressive legislation is fought for and gained by organised resistance , often on a class base , though this may be concealed . |
| 25 | A hard-earned trophy fought for and suffered for . |
| 26 | Enough has been said to indicate how the institutions and the legal system to which Britain acceded have been able , on the back of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments , to stretch their influence far beyond the economic boundaries hoped for and assumed by the British . |
| 27 | Hence we should ‘ [ understand ] the significance of Christ as embodying values and ideals which also are sought for and valued by feminists ’ . |
| 28 | And in fact the there , most of the traffic calming is actually being paid for and carried out by the developer for that scheme . |
| 29 | For Camus the sky was a source of sustenance that he could draw on at will ; for me it is a thwarted promise , yearned for and glimpsed against the odds . |
| 30 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |