Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for such " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy enough to see how someone , especially someone who has suffered a childhood of poverty , can be led to a fear of emptiness , of not getting enough to eat , of starvation itself , and so in later life to stave off or compensate for such a fear . |
| 2 | A quotation from one teacher serves to illustrate this attitude : ‘ Nowadays when education is under attack , and survival is the watchword , there is just not enough time or willpower for such peripheral activities . ’ |
| 3 | This would be so particularly if the employees had terms in their contracts that provided for such extra amounts , or if the employees included directors who were entitled to such extra amounts under their service contracts . |
| 4 | It is suggested that support for such organisations is drawn disproportionately from the middle class , and in particular those sections of the middle class that feel most at threat from the structural changes taking place in contemporary British society . |
| 5 | We have to risk that chat and that jockeying for such possible coming to terms with things . |
| 6 | A program was written that searched for such affixed words and prompted a human with the word and the probable root form which could be selected or rejected . |
| 7 | Logic suggests that blame for such a situation must usually be equally divided , and that there are just as many bad , uncaring or downright lazy mothers as there bad , selfish and irresponsible fathers . |
| 8 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 9 | Vincente Minnelli , a director of the old school and greatly renowned and respected for such classics as The Band Wagon and An American in Paris , was looking for a touch of modernism to attract a young audience to a rather old-fashioned film called On a Clear Day You Can See Forever . |
| 10 | Mona was loved and tolerated for such ethics by a great many people , the young as well as the not so young . |
| 11 | However , the national financial and economic climate prevailing at any given time has influenced the supply and demand for such housing , and prices have altered at different rates ( almost always increasing ) during this period . |
| 12 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |
| 13 | The electoral rules also provided for a second round poll for county list seats in counties where the first round turnout was less than 50 per cent , and allowed for such a second poll to be valid provided that turnout exceeded 25 per cent . |
| 14 | For the first time the Federal government took responsibility for providing , with the co-operation of the states , old age pensions , unemployment benefits and help for such groups as the blind and the handicapped . |
| 15 | Various soldiers had , it said , been tried and imprisoned for such crimes . |
| 16 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 17 | The precise directions in respect of which the penal notice is sought should be specified by the solicitors when applying for such a penal notice . |