Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many elderly people do this each year if it is not suitable for them to go away with their family , and they understand the need those who are caring for them have for a complete break . |
| 2 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 3 | John o' Groats is commonly but wrongly regarded as the most northerly tip of the country and because of this popular misconception attracts many visitors , most of whom come for no better reason than to be able to say they have been there and , having satisfied this ambition , turn round and return south . |
| 4 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |
| 5 | Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason — in order to live — but the choice of job may be influenced more by necessity than choice . |
| 6 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
| 7 | However , there are two other aspects on which counsel for the interim government has relied . |
| 8 | This publication , and the Directory of Mines and Quarries , on which work for the next edition continued , provide prime sources of basic data for the United Kingdom minerals industry . |