Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that becomes the arbitrator for requests for information for the data access mechanism , whatever that happens to me be . |
| 2 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The choice may be quite temporary and for limited purposes — using contingent loyalties as strategies for action . |
| 6 | And cos the the studio is also used regularly for rehearsals for example or as you know if er local amateur company is putting on a show in the studio they 're given the use of the studio a week before the week of the show . |
| 7 | Full employment , competition between employers for labour and high levels of labour turnover might mean that many people are working for only a short time in any particular job . |
| 8 | With this assumption in mind Gorbachev told the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1985 that ‘ the newly independent countries do not want to be regarded any longer as objects for profit-making and for installing military bases and strongpoints in their territories ’ . |
| 9 | FOR GUMS FOR TEETH FOR LIFE ! |
| 10 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 11 | Here we are primarily concerned about balance and impartiality between political parties , but balance between social groups and institutions , or between alternative life-styles , may also be important ; so too may balance between rival factions within parties — for example during contests for party leadership , such as the 1990 contest between Heseltine and Thatcher . |
| 12 | The history of Chinese culture , from the Neolithic period through to modern China , is presented thematically , through rituals for ancestor worship , technology , calligraphy , ceramics for tea and wine , Buddhist images , and goods made for foreign trade . |
| 13 | Sometimes there are combinations and variations on the above , such as requests for part payments or for time to pay . |
| 14 | The Soviet leader has had a more modest , though not dissimilar effect on East Germany , where his presence last weekend became a focus for calls for change of the type so steadfastly refused by his hosts . |
| 15 | There was support for calls for equality of sacrifice . |
| 16 | Griffiths believed that a greater diversity of service options would develop if the independent sector , voluntary organizations and private companies were encouraged to compete for contracts for domiciliary and residential care services : indeed , there is evidence from initiatives in services for people with mental handicap that having a multiplicity of different service providers stimulates creative innovations in services in a way which monolithic public sector services seem slow to do . |
| 17 | We see no cause to fear that the recommended repeal and replacement of the present section [ s. 40 , LPA 1925 ] as to the formalities for contracts for sale or other disposition of land will inhibit the courts in the exercise of the equitable discretion to do justice between parties in individual otherwise hard cases . |
| 18 | What is needed is an investigation into what language teachers in different classrooms in different countries find problematic about conventional practice or about proposals for innovation that have been put forward . |
| 19 | Also on the topic of research , the European Commission has published several calls for proposals for participation in Research & technological Development ( RTD ) programmes . |
| 20 | The effects of the famine , which follows two years of drought , have been exacerbated by the non-arrival of foreign aid and fighting between clans for control of the southern provinces . |
| 21 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 22 | On 28 May , he had a meeting with General Dulac , who had come to Colombey as an emissary from General Salan , to brief him about plans for Operation Resurrection . |
| 23 | Like sociologists , opinion pollsters believe that , by the application of scientific methodology , people can be treated as units for experimentation , like amoebae on a slide . |
| 24 | It is still used as offices for Holderness Borough Council . |
| 25 | I have some information about knives for sale by mail order . |
| 26 | Naturally , the public display of great works of art led to a demand for imitations for enjoyment by wealthy individuals . |
| 27 | A search for opportunities for originality and creativity . |
| 28 | The 1987 Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches asked for opportunities for Church leaders to study so that they can cope with problems cropping up everywhere . |
| 29 | Such an increase gives him a feeling of career security ; his employer is pleased with his performance , he is unlikely to be made redundant , he decides there is no further need to monitor advertisements for opportunities for career advancement with rival firms and he feels he can now afford to enter the housing market and buy a flat . |
| 30 | In contrast , there is the view of organisations as arenas for conflict on individual and group levels . |