Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 Which measures for controlling body temperature are most commonly used on your ward ? |
| 2 | This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's . |
| 3 | In both these cases , there is a conformity in coverage which takes for granted a certain perspective on these issues . |
| 4 | Simmel tends towards a Romantic style of analysis which takes for granted a primitive undifferentiated nature , and various latent versions of totality , for example in art and aesthetics as models of utopian , if transient , resolutions . |
| 5 | But it needs to be said that it is not a belief that Richards himself takes for granted . |
| 6 | In this context Cuba , with its exceptionally high dependence on imported oil ( which accounts for approaching two-thirds of the island 's total energy consumption ) and its sophisticated modern refining capacity ( installed by Shell , Esso and Texaco ) , must have looked a promising market for Soviet oil . |
| 7 | The theatre , which caters for touring companies , had a budget of £390,000 to meet its costs during this financial year . |
| 8 | Then , only two months ago , Peter Brooke himself announced that they were to have no purchase grants as such , but that these were now merged with the vote which pays for running expenses . |
| 9 | DSD operates the Grüne Punkt ( green dot ) system , which collects for recycling 80 per cent of consumer packaging . |
| 10 | She fumbles for defusing words . |
| 11 | The book , which is fierce , elegant and utterly unsparing is bound to enrage anyone who takes for granted the necessity of State funding for the arts . |
| 12 | But that is because he is a physical scientist , who takes for granted the biologists " theory of evolution . |
| 13 | The reasons she advances for maintaining the book 's integrity are based on modesty of intention : it is better not to divulge the precise methods of punishment used by its Mrs Teachum , since the book is addressed less to teachers than to pupils . |
| 14 | ‘ This year it 'll be the family Christmas I suppose everyone takes for granted . |
| 15 | Consider , for example , the introduction and successful operation of the wide bodied jets which everyone takes for granted today . |
| 16 | Again it is possible to make categorical assertions in English without giving any indication of the evidence that one has for making them or of one 's attitude towards what one is saying : there are languages that can not do this . ’ |
| 17 | It took less than two years for the computer to change from being perceived as a threat and as something only big businesses would use to something one buys for doing income tax . |
| 18 | At the moment we 're dealing with a general purpose system , which is designed for all sorts of applications , and one pays for having a thing general purpose by costing more money . |
| 19 | That 's when they when they calls for selling . |
| 20 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 21 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 22 | Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 23 | And Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick , which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 24 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 25 | This is an extremely important result , both because of its policy implications which we shall consider later in this chapter and because of the scope it offers for testing the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 26 | The quickening presence of the love he longs for seems conspicuous by its absence , a feeling emphasised by the strong-stressed , medially-stopped half-line . |
| 27 | Each family doctor practice will be able to discuss with the local Family Practitioner Committee the amount it needs for prescribing for its patients . |
| 28 | The Government 's repugnance for that organisation and everything it stands for has been made absolutely clear on repeated occasions . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has for assisting councils to increase security in high tower block housing . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has for reducing waiting times in respect of eye treatments ; and if he will make a statement . |