Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to subscribe , send a cheque for £35 , made payable to or look out for generous discounts in this issue of the magazine . |
| 2 | Combine a week ashore at the Symi Houseparty with a week afloat , or luxuriate aboard for two weeks . |
| 3 | Many of these woods have been abandoned or grubbed up for agricultural use . |
| 4 | The fact that , for various reasons , Crosland opposed suggested ‘ transbinary ’ mergers — including Lancaster and the University of Warwick , Brighton and the University of Sussex — strengthened the feeling that the new public sector was being protected or singled out for special development . |
| 5 | When pressed for reasons , they would draw on such ‘ obvious ’ facts as blacks are physically equipped or conditioned better for some sports , or reference was made to the explain-ail theory of ‘ natural ability ’ . |
| 6 | They do n't want to get stabbed … or sent away for six months . |
| 7 | Each school 's proposal is read by the DCSL , Divisional Librarian and the ACL:E&SS , and accepted or sent back for further refinement as required . |
| 8 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 9 | Within five years , half of all non-custodial parents ( usually fathers ) have remarried , creating some full-time and some part-time step-families where children visit or stay overnight for short periods ( Leete and Anthony , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Fielding would let them drawl or quack away for five minutes , before asking , with a strategic glint : And Shakespeare ? " |
| 11 | Calculate the over or under-absorbed overhead for each cost centre . |
| 12 | We can adapt our theories , or cast around for fresh ones , to suit our intuitions . |
| 13 | Class sizes are generally larger than PTRs , because not all teachers actually teach ( heads , for instance , spend most of their time on administrative work ) , because marking and preparation duties restrict direct contact hours with pupils , and because sometimes classes are combined or split up for various periods . |
| 14 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 15 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 16 | ‘ Good thinking , Princess , ’ he said , with an easy charm that made up for any lack of etiquette . |
| 17 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 18 | Do you think that there is even a sort of ‘ them and us ’ attitude , a feeling that the arts world is an ever open maw that cries out for endless sums of money and that the proper business of government is to resist ? |
| 19 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 20 | But he more than made up for that night by setting up both Arsenal 's goals with a performance of poise and maturity . |
| 21 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 22 | This is yet another reason why we must get to the heart of the problem by controlling consumption , rather than searching hopefully for grand solutions . |
| 23 | This is yet another reason why we must get to the heart of the problem by controlling consumption , rather than searching hopefully for grand solutions . |
| 24 | Language is as old as consciousness , language is practical consciousness that exists also for other men , and for that reason alone it really exists for me personally as well ; language like consciousness , only arises from the need , the necessity of intercourse with other men . |
| 25 | Paying once a month for goods requires less money on average than paying separately for each item purchased . |
| 26 | Wherever they were at school , a number of deaf children were unfortunate enough to stay there the whole duration of the war , neither seeing their parents nor going home for any holiday . |
| 27 | Evidently , one tends to forget the worst episodes over time , and remembers only those items that stand out for some reason ’ . |
| 28 | The sum delimited for military spending , 108,000 million roubles , equalled that set aside for social security . |
| 29 | It recommends that developing countries seek " advance payments and relatively small royalties rather than holding out for higher royalties that may never materialise " . |
| 30 | In this case calculating recognition measures for individual stimuli is initially of more interest than doing so for individual subjects thus the data is aggregated across subjects . |