Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently she was not prepared to risk this for the sake of pleading Russell 's cause . |
| 2 | That is , it is important to remember that for every year from 1966 to 1983 , only two years , 1979 and 1983 , were characterized by net immigration ; in all other years more people left Britain than entered ( Gordon and Klug , 1985 , p. 22 ) . |
| 3 | Can I really expect her to do that for the rest of my life ? ’ |
| 4 | erm It can be daunting to go back and erm meet teachers again and talk to them as , as adults rather than in the way that you used to when you were a child and erm the teacher was very much above you , but erm try your best to , to do that for the sake of the child because it is very very helpful for children if they feel that their teachers and parents are on pretty good terms . |
| 5 | Friends may refrain from expressing any sympathy because they feel that it might be inappropriate and embarrassing for her , and she may be feeling that people will regard her as a hypocrite if she gives way and weeps , although she may need to do this for a variety of reasons , one of them being not so much for what she has lost , but for what she never had . |
| 6 | They need to do this for a number of reasons , which include : * identifying the characteristics and attributes of customers and market segments ; * developing and positioning products and services which are appropriate to customer needs and purchasing patterns ; * maximising sales penetration potential through distribution and retail channels ; * focusing the most cost-effective promotional activity ( advertising , exhibitions , sponsorship etc ) as accurately as possible on target market segments . |
| 7 | It is as inadequate to argue , for example , that the PCF was simply the institutional terrain in which Nizan pursued a carefully orchestrated campaign of political and literary self-advancement and careerism , as it is to argue that for the majority of the ten years that he spent in the PCF Nizan remained unaware of the imperfections of Stalinist Soviet communism . |
| 8 | She 's only supposed to take that for a week at a time Tom . |
| 9 | Neither seems to say much for the tenderness of the steaks . |
| 10 | The audience nodded , and Liz from the doorway nodded , for she had to admit that for the moment at least everything looked under control : pretty parsley-sprigged snacks awaited distribution , bottles of wine stood in attentive ranks , glasses were lined up , wiped and polished , piles of white napkins lay neatly folded in readiness . |
| 11 | It is important to note that for a variety of reasons clauses of this kind have been heavily criticized . |
| 12 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that for the majority of economists , the use of these concepts of surplus is a legitimate way of analysing the benefits ( and losses ) that arise under differing competitive conditions . |