Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Facts should normally be allowed to speak for themselves : to spell out a conclusion may spell danger . |
| 2 | Representatives from the State Education Commission accepted that funds were insufficient but argued that the state could not be expected to provide for everything . |
| 3 | The reason we do so is entirely based on our perception of what older people should and should not be allowed to do for themselves — at their age . |
| 4 | While people may be held to be responsible for an action they may not always be asked to account for it . |
| 5 | that it is no good thing for any state to be involved in redistributive welfare policies — in which case the periphery must presumably be left to fend for itself . |
| 6 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 7 | ‘ Is he all ready ? ’ the pilot said to Harvey , as if pike could n't be trusted to speak for himself . |
| 8 | The logic of an overall national agreement could almost be left to speak for itself though the conciliation board campaign itself was not formally abandoned until the outbreak of war in August 1914 , when the union immediately declared a truce in all its disputes with the Federation . |
| 9 | A MOTHER stabbed to death by her jealous husband made a secret will stating that he must never be allowed to care for their son . |
| 10 | He says that it will almost certainly be left to fend for itself , seeking business abroad . |