Example sentences of "for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This time difference may be outweighed by the need to secure intravenous access for dextrose — a serious disadvantage in agitated patients because extravasation of dextrose may cause considerable pain and tissue necrosis . |
2 | These toxins are made by bacteria that thrive in the crevices where teeth meet gums ; so treatments for gum disease tend to focus on getting rid of the germs . |
3 | As a possible source for Loulou we can , I think , eliminate the mother of a ‘ hideous ’ English family encountered by Gustave on the boat from Alexandria to Cairo : with a green eyeshade attached to her bonnet , she looked ‘ like a sick old parrot ’ . |
4 | Ernst & Young has been the exclusive distributor for KnowledgeWare in Europe since 1986 , but the company now has direct distribution operations in most European countries including Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden and the UK . |
5 | Genes - for resistance to antibiotics , for example — can be swapped between micro-organisms of completely different species naturally , in the wild . |
6 | But transgressive reinscription appropriates reaction for resistance , thereby substituting agency for autonomy . |
7 | On the one hand it has appeared as a focus for resistance . |
8 | But the scope for resistance is limited and the all pervasive security network is said to extend to Sunday services where sermons are monitored for hints of dissent . |
9 | Hitler had stood for resistance to a cancer spreading across Europe . |
10 | ‘ Seeds collected now can be tested for resistance either this year or at some time in the future , ’ he says . |
11 | Selection for resistance to mastitis and good fertility at the same time as selection for milk yield and quality is proving effective in the dairy cattle population of Norway . |
12 | Either because those in power simply underestimated the potential for resistance or simply because they believed they could in the end over-ride such resistance , industrial companies in conjunction with waste disposal firms ( and often in collusion with state health regulatory agencies ) dumped indiscriminately and with disregard for human health and life . ’ |
13 | Crop rotation can also help reduce the opportunity for resistance to develop in the insect population . |
14 | A militia spokesman rambled on in Arabic about the need for resistance , the nobility of the struggle against isolationism and the potentialities of the revolution . |
15 | Horses often display these signs when asked to perform a difficult movement , and will be marked down for resistance in a dressage test . |
16 | The four most common reasons for resistance to change are : |
17 | There are other reasons for resistance to change . |
18 | One reason for resistance to the new paradigm was the sheer impossibility of convincing geologists in the traditional way : by convening on an outcrop and hammering out the evidence . |
19 | This involved the translocation of the gene responsible for resistance to the carbamate insecticide propoxur on to the male-Y-chromosome so that only the males were resistant . |
20 | Edwards ( 1979 , 16 ) , for example , characterises the situation as one where for most of the twentieth century management have met ‘ chronic resistance to their effort to compel production ’ and consequently ‘ have attempted to organize production in such a way as to minimise opportunities for resistance and even to alter workers ’ perceptions of the desirability of opposition ’ . |
21 | Through this people God called for resistance to the great rebel and usurper of the world . |
22 | Whether he would have kept any such agreement is another question , but his capacity for resistance would have been much reduced . |
23 | Naturally , we look for deportment and how the flowers are carried , for colour and splendour , for abundance , for the sweet scents and the period over which the bloom is carried , and for resistance to rain , pest and disease . |
24 | The first decade of annexation ( 1910–20 ) witnessed the most rigorous phase in which draconic punishments were enforced for resistance to Japan . |
25 | Late in 1867 , despite calls for resistance from among his more conservative supporters , he formally returned political authority to the emperor , but this move proved inadequate to appease his more extreme opponents , who argued that while the Tokugawa continued to control more than 25 per cent of the country they were bound to play the dominant role in councils of state . |
26 | He had not avoided a strike , which was half his inclination , but he had preserved a reasonably favourable position , both for himself and for resistance . |
27 | The 1920s and 1930s are just as notable for resistance to incursions from the peripheries of the discipline , as for the rise of Scrutiny . |
28 | Hence , in the mouths of conservative lawyers , we catch an appeal to the radical doctrine of the sovereignty of the nation ; it alone could provide a theoretical basis for resistance to a French king whose claim was legally established by the formal abdication of both Ferdinand VII and his father . |
29 | " But if we did things differently here there would n't be any need for resistance movements . |
30 | Guy tensed the instant she moved , as though bracing himself for resistance . |