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 .
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