Example sentences of "in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of our daily work was ten years in advance of the official police community involvement programmes and yet our actions were only an extension of those social welfare activities the police have been heavily involved in for generations , but which are never given status as ‘ real police work ’ simply because of the institutional emphasis placed upon summons lists , numbers of arrests , crime detections , and other statistical returns . |
| 2 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 3 | He would be at the next meeting in the church hall along with Swire Sugden , and were they in for a surprise ! |
| 4 | In the north-east of England , where railways began , old coaching inns , in for instance Shildon , Sedgefield , and South Shields , doubled as railway stations . |
| 5 | Humans use their bodies to express themselves in for instance the way they walk . |
| 6 | I said to myself , ‘ Christ , I 'm due in for breakfast in another quarter of an hour . |
| 7 | Play is usually defined as any activity engaged in for the enjoyment it gives without any consideration of the end result . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's done now — in for a penny , in for a pound . |
| 9 | When I was a postgraduate student , for example , I was about to embark on a research project on a topic I 'd been involved in for many years . |
| 10 | Evans says that the title of Gospel Oak was in many places conferred on to the tree that , ‘ in for instance the Suffolk village of Polstead , has long outlasted the ceremony ’ . |
| 11 | She had no chance in competitive company at Lingfield last Saturday , but is well in for her handicap debut judged on her effortless victory in a seller at Nottingham last month . |
| 12 | That would let the Smiths in for a total of £836 . |
| 13 | That would let the Smiths in for a total of £836 . |
| 14 | ‘ It 'll give you an 'orrible pain and do your knee in for good . ’ |
| 15 | Will I get some in for you now ? |
| 16 | Other widely-accepted gender differences , in for instance aggression , competitiveness , and spatial abilities , may also be influenced importantly by class . |
| 17 | Postwar feminism even has some methodological programmes for it , in for instance Firestone 's ( 1971 ) call for a combination of aesthetic and technological modes . |
| 18 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 19 | Even so , without pause the report resumed its brooding concern over ‘ the apparent relaxation of standards of behaviour ’ , ‘ the lowering of hitherto established values ’ , ‘ the erosion of good standards , which were hitherto commonplace ’ and the necessity of ‘ reinforcing the values of what as a nation we had believed in for many years ’ . |
| 20 | I ca n't afford to stay in this awful dump I 'm in for long . ’ |
| 21 | It consists of a record of all the things you do in a day and , in order for it to be of value , you need to log every activity you are engaged in for at least one week , if not for two . |
| 22 | While it is in these that we are primarily interested in for the development of teaching material , they are likely to be dependent on the climate of attitudes that prevails in the lesson . |
| 23 | The balance of this site we 'll be doing , as I say , twenty five shared ownership properties and that 's subject to a bid er , in for the next financial year er which again is obviously subject to , to your support , but as I said , it will be our first priority . |
| 24 | The topic returns to the forefront of attention in the final chapter , in which I discuss the very possibility of the enterprise I have been engaged in for the previous fourteen . |
| 25 | Vecchi was in for keeps now . |
| 26 | The cut is still crucial to SFX , since it enables the director to leap instantly between different levels of reality and illusion ; eg stuntman cut close-up of actor cut stuntman , in for example , Tim Burton 's Batman ( 1989 ) , where Michael Keaton , as Batman , is not required to personally perform sensational wirework acts of falling or climbing . |
| 27 | I mean , check it , as in for checking buildings and erm |
| 28 | ‘ I 've brought a few in for tea . ’ |
| 29 | So Waleran goes where his roots are , to keep them safe from being torn up , even if he must do homage to Anjou for the soil they 've been firm in for generations . |
| 30 | Another frequent difficulty is that over a period of years , constant masturbation , sometimes desperately engaged in for emotional comfort rather than sexual release , results in desensitization of the penis . |