Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rapid economic development has vastly increased demand for water in recent years , and the expansion is expected to continue : the water needs of the urban population are expected to increase by 45 per cent in the next 20 years , with industry requiring 30 per cent more water and agriculture 14 per cent more . |
| 2 | The material has already revealed evidence for trepanation , a surgical procedure involving removal of a piece of bone from the skull . |
| 3 | Mr Rutskoi has already had responsibility for agriculture taken away , along with his official Mercedes and doctor . |
| 4 | War on the Unborn THE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has consistently opposed abortion for convenience which has been called The War on the Unborn . |
| 5 | Fat people 's bodies just do n't know when to say no. for example , it is easy to tell when your body has a fever , is in pain or is tired . |
| 6 | " Forests , " it says , " have been swept aside to grow crops for western consumers , flooded by huge hydroelectric dams to power mineral smelters and cut down to provide timber for export markets . " |
| 7 | For if nature is offering a sturdy resistance to man 's efforts to wring from her a larger supply of raw material , while at that particular stage there is no great room for introducing important new economies into the manufacture , the supply price will rise ; but if the volume of production were greater , it would perhaps be profitable to substitute largely machine work for hand work and steam power for muscular force ; and the increase in the volume of production would have diminished the expenses of production of the commodity of our representative firm . [ … ] |
| 8 | In the USA , insurance companies have challenged the need for hospital care of anorexic patients , seeking instead to limit reimbursement for treatment , although the need for hospital care is well documented . |
| 9 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 10 | Amedee was employed in the college football system , which exists primarily to raise revenue for academe and players for professional teams . |
| 11 | The mill continued to be used occasionally to grind flour for home consumption , until his eventual departure in 1932 . |
| 12 | Onyx notably lacked inclination for housework , not to mention motherly instinct . |
| 13 | As the community care reforms bed down signs are already emerging that the government may have significantly over-estimated demand for field social workers . |
| 14 | Pound eventually abandoned botany for law , but Clements became professor first at Nebraska and then at Minnesota , before moving to the Carnegie Institution of Washington . |
| 15 | For the moment though , the students will have to take a rest as Glenn jets out to do battle for glory in the world championships . |
| 16 | I 'm not , we do normally have porridge for breakfast . |
| 17 | Those who claimed a break-even or loss situation did not make allowance for home produced food . |
| 18 | success rate of this operation did not represent value for money' . |
| 19 | Only one farmer did not have grass for grazing . |
| 20 | During the first six months , only a very small number of patients ( 11.11% ) did not require dilatation for recurrence . |
| 21 | I wish I 'd brought the environment committee before so I could quote from it but from er recollection it says that that organisation did not have a consistent record of producing a significant number of jobs and that the expenditure on funding them did not provide value for money . |
| 22 | ( Some countries do not pay compensation for damage . ) |
| 23 | If I and many members of the Institute do this because Institute courses and publications do not offer value for money , this can only cause the Institute 's already poor financial situation to deteriorate . |
| 24 | Otto Reinhold , an East German ideologue , reinforced this gloomy view by insisting : ‘ We do not want reform for reform 's sake , but changes which will help the further development of socialism ’ . |
| 25 | Occasionally leases do not require consent for sub-letting and this may be a more suitable structure . |
| 26 | By contrast , ‘ born in Asia ’ is an excellent match for areas where people do not use electricity for cooking . |
| 27 | Er , if anybody has , did n't have spinach for lunch , I have a purloined thing of scissors . |
| 28 | Defries did n't have time for talk . |
| 29 | If they did n't have food for breakfast for us , they would n't wake us up in the morning . |
| 30 | Maybe in ten , fifteen years the situation may change , but I do n't think enlargement for enlargement 's sake is going to be of benefit to the E C. |