Example sentences of "what [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What goes for one player should also go for the other . |
| 2 | Yet it is sometimes easy to be dazzled by the well-intentioned enthusiasm of a Vicki Hearne , or by false philosophy , into misunderstanding or down-playing the differences , and because it comes naturally to us to say that both we and the dog are angry , or frightened , we conclude that what goes for the human must go for the animal , making certain allowances for sensuous and anatomical variations . |
| 3 | And what goes for a right and a liberty is also true of the other cornerstones of moral language : duty , obligation , right , wrong . |
| 4 | What goes for the mother goes for her brother also . |
| 5 | ‘ I check the bookings to get a general idea of what to plan for weekly activities . |
| 6 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 7 | ‘ During the day I tend to wear classic , comfortable clothes , but knowing what to wear for evening poses a real problem , ’ she explained . |
| 8 | I really need some advice about what to wear for the wedding . ’ |
| 9 | The question as to what covenants for title should be implied in the conveyance may be in issue . |
| 10 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 11 | Having looked at all the options , sit down together and decide what to go for . |
| 12 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 13 | Friendship there , or what passed for friendship , never crossed the great divide of political allegiance and in the acrimonious clamour of the staffroom could swiftly deteriorate into gossip , rumours , recriminations and betrayal . |
| 14 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 15 | They jogged round a corner , and found themselves in what passed for the town square of Dead Rat , Arizona . |
| 16 | The sound was over and silence was back , or what passed for silence here . |
| 17 | But from somewhere in the fog of received wisdom and what passed for it , struggling to be heard above the sound of cracking whips , a persistent and unrepentant voice relayed a subversive message . |
| 18 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 19 | Sir Anthony 's lips slid over his small teeth in what passed for his public smile , and he accepted , without waiting for their answer . |
| 20 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 21 | Since it was to be a fortnightly , the best thing was to alternate with the other half of what passed for London 's alternative press , Private Eye . |
| 22 | What passed for reality on the discworld reasserted itself with a rush of sound . |
| 23 | And if you want to see what passed for America 's energy policy , you 're looking at it . |
| 24 | This is another reason why he likes working with people he knows , because they also know him and his quirks , and Carol knew what to write for him . |
| 25 | WHAT TO SMELL FOR Firstly notice the smell when the present occupant opens the door . |
| 26 | That 's what wants for Christmas , a camcorder and he thinks I 'm gon na buy him one . |
| 27 | What counts for the UK 's international position is that these innovations have enabled production to take place with new types of labour , new ways of organizing labour and in new areas of the world , but long-wave theories do not consider those changes . |
| 28 | What counts for the sake of higher education is the student 's ability to understand what is learned or what is done , to conceptualise it , to grasp it under different aspects , and to take up critical stances in relation to it . |
| 29 | What matters for the moment is to examine the contention that the Roman catholic church had this special position only because of this matter of fact . |
| 30 | This is what matters for Marx , and he seems cautious about the primitive promiscuity hypothesized by Morgan . |