Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone looks for different types of friends at different ages . |
| 2 | If you have any recipes that work particularly well , please let me know for future editions of this book . |
| 3 | I long for Anglican churches to be more confident in their expression of the Good News . |
| 4 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |
| 5 | I think I go for clichéd solos in a way . |
| 6 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 7 | The evidence is provided by a number of low scarps which wind for considerable distances across the Mercurian surface . |
| 8 | According to the Limited Partnerships ( Unrestricted Size ) No 1 Regulations 1971 , which provide for limited partnerships in surveying and allied professions beyond the usual maximum of twenty members , not more than one quarter of the total number of partners can be limited partners . |
| 9 | Part II — Orders in family proceedings This introduces four new orders known collectively as s8 orders which provide for different aspects of a child 's care and upbringing . |
| 10 | Twenty-nine countries — members of the North Atlantic Treaty organization ( NATO ) and the former Warsaw Pact , including the successor states to the Soviet Union — on June 5 signed a revised Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , which provided for sharp reductions in conventional weaponry and troop levels in Europe . |
| 11 | Experience with the Town Development Act ( which provided for negotiated schemes of ‘ overspill ’ from congested urban areas to towns wishing to expand ) did not suggest that it would be easy to find sufficient sites . |
| 12 | This is accomplished through the ordering of edges on the Agenda , and through the direction-independent nature of the Fundamental Rule which looks for possible extensions to hypotheses . |
| 13 | In the first , a bill is passed which allows for certain actions to be taken , such as the establishment of a space agency , the construction of a national highway system , the provision of agricultural price supports , and so on . |
| 14 | The twelfth century was characterized , therefore , by fewer but more protracted wars , which smouldered for long periods between short , sharp bouts of conflict , like the war that covered must of the reigns of Henry I of England and Louis VI of France , the one inaugurated by the great rebellion of 1173 , which outlived both Louis VII and Henry II , or that against Catalan claims in the south . |
| 15 | The commission 's defence task force , which called for radical changes in military procurement practice , was led by & name , the new deputy secretary of defence . |
| 16 | Spontaneous examples of positive performance such as using specific knowledge , rounding , correcting and so on are generally recorded during oral interaction with pupils and are not revealed by written tests which ask for specific answers to specific questions . |
| 17 | Dr Tyrrell 's unit on Salisbury Plain , which closed for financial reasons in 1990 , tried unsuccessfully for 44 years to find a cure for the common cold , conducting experiments on more than 18,000 volunteers . |
| 18 | I was always the one who argued for equal ages at Ladymont . |
| 19 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 20 | Many of them pass it on to their wives ; 1% of the women who came for pre-natal tests at the hospital were HIV-positive . |
| 21 | The second point is that precisely because legal conservatism values precedent , and will overturn prior cases only rarely , those who hope for great sea-changes in the law with the appointment of politically friendly judges are often disappointed . |
| 22 | Are you going for other interviews for instance ? |
| 23 | Opinion was divided between participants such as President Menem of Argentina ( supported by Uruguay ) who called for free elections in Cuba , and President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico who ( together with Brazil , Colombia and Venezuela ) was optimistic about forthcoming change after hosting two meetings with Cuba at Guadalajara and Cozumel during 1991 . |
| 24 | But this harsh action was condemned by Reagan who called for punitive measures against the Eastern bloc , threatened to cut off all talks with Moscow and asked that Western aid be ended for an oil-gas pipeline which was being constructed from Soviet Siberia into Europe . |
| 25 | And for agencies that supply some goods or services for purchase there are the consumers who pay for individual units of collectively provided goods . |
| 26 | Older people who have fewer than eight main meals each week , or who go for long periods of the day without food , are considered to be especially at risk . |
| 27 | And almost every day she went for long walks on the moors with her dog , Keeper . |
| 28 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 29 | The artisans and cottagers continually plied their trades : chandlers making tallow from pig fat ; skinners , cheesemongers , capmakers , blacksmiths , and at night , when the stalls came down , the raw-boned villains of the underworld who scrounged for easy pickings amongst the brothels and stewsides of the Thames . |
| 30 | We may be one of the country 's leading consumer banks with group assets excess of £1 billion but we do n't ask you to pay for expensive overheads like High Street branches . |