Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 2 | Relationships with that partner may be judged successful or otherwise according to the ways in which they duplicate , replace or compensate for parental relationships . |
| 3 | Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason . |
| 4 | The Food and Drug Administration has also hinted that it may revise a policy that does not at present require special safety testing or labelling for most biotechnology foods . |
| 5 | Conversely , the assessment of insufficient performance points clearly to the sort of services necessary to redress or compensate for functional deficits . |
| 6 | By meteorological means we 're now able to identify where such a storm will occur with greater efficiency and to take steps for keeping that area clear of people — or to arrange for controlled evacuation . |
| 7 | There seemed to be no consideration given as to how a management strategy would serve the processes desired , little attempt to anticipate possible outcomes or to arrange for specific progress points when reviews could be undertaken , nor to establish criteria against which a programme 's effectiveness would ultimately be evaluated . |
| 8 | A local authority may be asked to provide a report from one of its own officers or to arrange for another person to provide a report as appropriate . |
| 9 | A sense of rejection or an inbuilt feeling of hostility or hate for other people is an ingredient of sexual dissatisfaction or aggression . |
| 10 | British filmmaking ticked over during the 1950s , for the most part without any great ambition , or yen for artistic adventure . |
| 11 | Other ingredients can be added or substituted for different applications . |
| 12 | And we do not need to undergo years of psychoanalysis , or visit a hypnotist , or meditate for twelve hours a day , in order to seek self-knowledge . |
| 13 | See CORROSION-PROOFING & DESCALING for more details . |
| 14 | ‘ There is no Gook or Kraut or Nip for this war ’ , he writes , ‘ and the only Iraqi jokes I 've heard have been on the telephone from back home ’ . |
| 15 | We believe that everyone will need to use the private car more selectively — possibly cycling or walking for short journeys or using public transport where this is possible . ’ |
| 16 | They may be precipitated locally ( Thompson , 1959 ) or carried for some distance in solution ( Bathurst , 1975 ; Wanless , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | Ideally the information which is suppressed or grouped for contemporary research should be retained for historical research . |
| 18 | MESA Boogie Mk I reissue , excellent condition , £700 , or swap for new Studio 22+ . |
| 19 | MARSHALL 50 watt Artist combo , 1971 , immaculate condition , £450 or swap for Super Lead plus cab . |
| 20 | MARSHALL Super Lead 100 MK2 , early 70's , as new , very pokey , ex-Fleetwood Mac , £275 ono or swap for nice guitar . |
| 21 | WASHBURN D25S 12-string acoustic and case , mint condition , £260 ono , or swap for comparable 6-string . |
| 22 | LEFT-HANDED Tokai Tele , black M/N , £125 or swap for left hand bass of similar make . |
| 23 | BOSS RPQ-10 preamp/parametric equaliser , half rack effects processor , sell £60 or swap for A-1 condition wah-wah pedal . |
| 24 | Or swap for old Squier Strat . |
| 25 | Technologies designed to replace or substitute for lost functions will also continue to improve , allowing if not complete recovery at least a greatly improved quality of life for patients . |
| 26 | In addition , orders may define circumstances in which the application of the National Curriculum provisions to individual pupils might be modified or lifted for any foundation subject … . |
| 27 | I was famished , having had no food or sleep for thirty hours . |
| 28 | They invest them in various ways and at the end of the day you can use that erm policy to actually top up your pension or provide for increased family benefits and because it 's a the administration costs er costs are sort of less than than you get with erm you know sort of taking out a policy with an individual company , on a one off basis . |
| 29 | EP The local government reforms , like the poll tax , are narrowly partisan and will require a costly and unnecessary upheaval in terms of the need to preserve salaries of existing officials or provide for early retirement , the authors assert . |
| 30 | To date , given the inadequate levels of state pension provision and the limited opportunities most women have had to save or invest for old age , their limited access to occupational pension scheme membership has been a major factor in the construction of female poverty in old age . |