Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason . |
| 2 | How could you possibly enjoy yourself if that meant taking time off praying for the holy souls ? |
| 3 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 4 | Most of the day-to-day trade came from the man in the street , and it would be wrong to infer that every coffin-maker and funeral furnisher hungered after catering for the top end of the market . |
| 5 | The most recent research suggests that children who were breast fed have higher intelligence than those bottle-fed from birth , after allowing for the extra time breast-feeding mothers might spend with their babies or extra effort they might put into mothering . |
| 6 | Figure 1 b shows the rotation rate residuals after allowing for the increased value of slowdown rate which fits the later part of Fig. 1 a . |
| 7 | The external conjugate was not , however , related to cardiovascular mortality after adjusting for head circumference whereas the trend in cardiovascular mortality with head circumference remained significant after allowing for the external conjugate diameter . |
| 8 | Observed values of rotation rate for the first 15 days ; as in Fig. 1 c , all values are residuals after allowing for the normal slowdown rate , the persistent increase in slowdown rate , and the 265-day component . |
| 9 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 10 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 11 | During 1991 , BTR increased its workforce from 105,000 to 140,000 but , after allowing for the 48,000 staff added because of acquisitions , there was a net reduction of 13,000 . |
| 12 | BRIGHTNESS the beluga whale has been seen swimming happily in the Black Sea after escaping for the second time . |
| 13 | Earlier in the day Joey finished second to brother Robert in the Shell 125cc race after leading for the first three laps . |
| 14 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
| 15 | They are sure to be stiff after riding for the first time . ’ |
| 16 | Times of night visits , proportion performed by deputies , and trend in number of night visits after adjusting for the increased hours during which visits are claimed . |
| 17 | For instance , Fox and Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have noted that a clear North-South contrast in mortality rates remained even after standardizing for the socio-economic character of areas . |
| 18 | After weighing for the heaviest berry — duly recorded in the ledger by the recorder — any prizewinning berry is removed before they are weighed for the heaviest twelve awards and then again selected for the heaviest six . |
| 19 | Butcher , whose career looked over last season because of a knee injury , will be offered a one-year contract this week after starring for the First Division club in three pre-season friendlies . |
| 20 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 21 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 22 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 23 | Yesterday we observed that Mr Jeffrey Archer ( whose idea of canvassing for the Tory Party has revived the lost art of burlesque ) had bet £10 that the Tories will win with a majority of 27 seats . |
| 24 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 25 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 26 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 27 | Havant take over the daunting task of challenging for the European Cup in Amsterdam , with Hounslow moving to the south of Holland to compete at Vught where a favourable draw puts them among the favourites to reach Monday 's final . |
| 28 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 29 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 30 | Offer it up , people said : offer everything up , the happy times too , it 's all part of praying for the holy souls . |