Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next issue is whether the managers benefit from their position as directors or employees so as to acquire something for less than its full market value . |
| 2 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 3 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 4 | The reason why they maintained these holdings in dollars , rather than selling them for some other currency , was that dollar investments in New York remained attractive despite the decline in the relative value of the dollar in the early seventies . |
| 5 | During periods of anaerobic carbohydrate metabolism , the worms may also excrete pyruvic acid rather than retaining it for future oxidation when aerobic metabolism is possible . |
| 6 | But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours . |
| 7 | For example , the typical credit card agreement allows the holder to draw cash from the issuing bank ( unrestricted-use , debtor-creditor ) , as well as using it for restricted-use , debtor-creditor-supplier transactions . |