Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money-Go-Round : One European parliament that speaks for the elderly |
| 2 | The music and lyrical ideas are the stuff of nightmares , foam-flecked poetic rantings that go for the throat and refuse to let go no matter how hard you may plead . |
| 3 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 4 | Although America 's electronics industries are keen for the government to renew the parts of this agreement that call for the Japanese to buy more American chips , their ardour for price-fixing has cooled . |
| 5 | One is to breed together different parental lines that differ for the trait of interest . |
| 6 | Far more than incipient political change , it is the random violence that makes for the sense of dread among whites . |
| 7 | It was Daedalian blood that accounted for the native handiness and wit and industry of the people of Ninfania , the father had always thought . |
| 8 | Britain contains three areas that vie for the term of a ‘ mini ’ Silicon Valley ; they are centred on Bristol , Reading and Cambridge . |
| 9 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 10 | In London she settled in Highgate and ventured out from there on the variation of the Grand Tour that beckoned for the young in Europe in the mid 1960s : Paris , Rome , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Tunisia , and across north Africa . |
| 11 | There is also much criticism of the FC because of the high degree of autonomy that it enjoys and its legally-enforceable powers that allow for the compulsory purchase of land . |
| 12 | This distinction is further elaborated by Beetham ( Chapter 10 ) , who discusses the important consequences that follow for the internal organization of bureaucratic hierarchies . |
| 13 | Bowers , for example , reviews research indicating that speed falls from 55 to 45 km/h in such zones , with the associated implication that speeds for the fastest 15 per cent of drivers would be above 50 to 55 km/h . |
| 14 | He recognises at one point that claims for the ‘ intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ’ in literate culture may derive from socially constructed beliefs about what literacy can achieve ( 1982 ) . |
| 15 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 16 | They based the Alliance 's first ‘ Force Goals ’ upon outdated concepts that called for the deployment of very large conventional forces by the Alliance . |
| 17 | This record features lowdown bass that goes for the backs of your legs and up a bit . |
| 18 | In all the Odes there is scarcely a strophe , perhaps hardly a line , that does not transmute word order into word mosaic , a deliberate fragmentation that creates for the reader the pleasurable tension of wondering how the sense will be resolved , accompanied by the stimulus of casual associations , as one word runs against another . |
| 19 | She needed some more wood for her carving if she was to complete all the ‘ little comforters ’ , as she called them , during her three-week holiday away from the travel agents where she worked , small , smooth-shaped pieces of wood , lovingly carved and polished by herself to fit easily into the palm and which , much to her surprise and delight , were eagerly accepted by the large rehabilitation hospital in the next town that cared for the blind and mentally sick . |
| 20 | The third will that contended for the world was the human will itself . |