Example sentences of "[noun sg] for " in BNC.

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1 For example , if the examination lasts from 10.00 to 13.00 hours the time-table for six equally weighted questions would be as follows
2 Furthermore , Sara did not want to be bound by a rigid time-table for meals , which Lizzie expected and insisted on .
3 Side doors hinge up , and allow superb visibility for all occupants .
4 The prismed bomb aimer 's station provided excellent visibility for the pin-point accuracy required .
5 DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC .
6 Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle .
7 It is a coming-together of intentions to create visibility for key strategies and organizational movement .
8 The upper line shows the least-squares regression for insectivores and frugivores , the lower one that for folivores ( from Clutton-Brock and Harvey 1977 ) .
9 We chose linear regression for describing the overall changes in mean sperm concentrations , but other statistical models have also been tested .
10 Soviet specialists also maintain that neutrality or neutralisation would anyway be a regression for a ‘ socialist ’ state such as Vietnam .
11 In fact , Lucas actually substitutes for from equation ( 6.4 ) and estimates the following regression for each country :
12 Thus Lucas can be seen to be estimating a regression for each country in which that country 's deviation of real output from its natural level is regressed on its own lagged value and Lucas 's measure of the unpredictable and therefore unanticipated component of aggregate demand .
13 t Tests were used for two level factors ; ANOVA was employed for factors with several levels , and simple linear regression for continuous variables .
14 Each patient had three measurements of bone mineral density and rates of bone loss were estimated by linear regression for each subject .
15 Whilst most of these patients died within a year , 9 achieved tumour regression for at least 12 months ( range 1–5 years ) after two to four courses of I-MIBG .
16 By 1906 Picasso had known the work of Gauguin for some time .
17 His protest that this was the worst kind of Victorian colonialism was short-hand for the conviction that the action had played into the hands of all the enemies of the West .
18 Far from being inclined towards self-righteousness , the Pharisees taught ‘ Be humble before all men ’ , and revered their teacher Hillel for his extreme humility ; and far from being judgemental , they urged ‘ Do not judge your fellow man until you are in his position ’ and ‘ Always judge others by the scale of merit ( that is , charitably ) ’ .
19 Its broad aims were to analyse large American companies in order to discover differences in return on investment ( ROI ) , to establish par values for ROI for different industries and their segments , and to attempt to explain variations in ROI across companies and their subsidiary business units by reference to strategic factors .
20 Short-term performance is then to be judged by a comparison of budgeted and actual ROI for that year .
21 It must be stressed , however , that , if the potential dysfunctional effects of ROI use are to be avoided , financial controllers must make it very clear throughout the organization exactly how supervisors are using ROI for evaluation and exactly how it is to be used by SBU and divisional managers .
22 Theirs was one of the few ale-only breweries in London at this time , most of the others producing huge amounts of porter for a voraciously thirsty market .
23 Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college .
24 He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 .
25 In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth .
26 After arguing with the night porter for another ten minutes , they worked their way up floor by floor .
27 Perhaps , though , you could get a message to Cabochon for me . ’
28 After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival .
29 It 's a Christmas perk for local farmers to sell holly and mistletoe .
30 ‘ They worked hard to get us into Europe and now there 's no perk for them .
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