Example sentences of "and [prep] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 This method is applied both for storing items in the table , and for searching for items in a previously stored structure .
2 Evaluate the effectiveness of the plan for satisfying the medical , psychological , and personal needs of the patients and for catering for potential problems .
3 Well because I think a thanksgiving service for victory and for praying for those who 've died on both sides , I think that 's perfectly reasonable , but a victory parade , goodness a hundred thousand Iraquis died .
4 His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled .
5 It defines what is important , worthwhile and worth striving for .
6 But post GATT the occupier 's surplus from arable farming falls to £1500 and after allowing for other income total income would be only about £4000 .
7 And after allowing for income tax you were actually losing money .
8 On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water .
9 The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking .
10 He was reliever to feel a slight tug as the parachute eventually opened ; it was bitter cold but fortunately he was being blown away from the capital 's fires , and after drifting for a time , hit the ground ‘ like a wet sack ’ .
11 At 14 months , all rate were killed by exsanguination under general anaesthesia and after fasting for 15 hours .
12 Blom settled in England shortly before the war of 1914–18 , and after working for two music publishers — Breitkopf & Härtel in Berne and J. & W. Chester in London — began to make his name in 1919 as a writer of programme notes for the Promenade Concerts .
13 And after working for seven minutes I am already feeling the need for the ingestion of sugar .
14 They took out large orders of tea and coffee on cardboard trays , and after wondering for a while if they were anything to do with the film business Lucy finally decided that every last one of them was probably either a builder or a shopfitter .
15 Deliveries should be logged and after checking for shortages and damage goods should be fully unpacked and stored correctly in the allocated spaces .
16 On Saturday he was back in his own Opel and despite struggling for grip in the slippery Fermanagh forests he played safe to finish 35 seconds behind the Ford Escort Cosworth of Leckey .
17 The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race .
18 It will be a matter of making a good landing directly into wind , if that is possible , and of hoping for a minimum of damage to the glider .
19 In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since .
20 He still dreamt of avenging the shame of Kosovo and of ending for all time the ‘ long Turkish night ’ .
21 For a long while she stayed there without moving , her mind filled with the dull ache of loss and of longing for what might have been .
22 A. Two great inventions , about 1800 , caused a massive rapid expansion of industry and of housing for extra workers .
23 It is clear that individuals in the ‘ higher ’ occupational groupings are far more likely to have high incomes and to be owner-occupiers than those in the lower groupings , and it is also clear that children of higher category parents have a much better chance of extending their education beyond the minimum , and of qualifying for higher status occupations themselves ( Goldthorpe , 1980 , Halsey et al . ,
24 Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer .
25 There are contested arguments for and against charging for social services , which resemble the more general argument about markets we reviewed in Chapter 3 .
26 Reading activities develop into individual reading sessions with the teacher , into private reading , and into reading for information ( in order to understand something , to do something , or to write something ) .
27 The growth has come from privatisation of services provided in the public sectors , particularly healthcare and education and from catering for the public .
28 So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps .
29 The first thing the men did , upon receiving the news , and before fending for themselves , was to move their women and children to safety , generally into one of the secret corries in the hills .
30 I was not alone in the way I identified with the saga of the March family , nor was I alone in identifying with Jo ( and presumably all readers do ) in her hurts and disappointments , her longings for femininity that clashed with her dreams of independence and achievement ; and in wishing for the ultimate fairness of all things as they were shaped by those nineteenth century moral certainties .
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