Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | River Island women 's range has already got party dresses in for the festive season . |
| 2 | Junior Bent ( Bristol City , 12.06 ) , Efan Ekoku ( Bournemouth , 12.07 ) , Adrian Littlejohn ( Sheff Utd , 12.08 ) , Iffy Onuora ( Huddersfield 12.09 ) , Keith Curle ( Man City , 12.10 ) , Rod McDonald ( Walsall , 12.18 ) , Tony Witter ( QPR , 12.19 ) and John Goodman ( Millwall , 12.40 ) , and late replacements Vance Warner ( Nottm Forest ) and Michael Brown ( Bolton ) , who stands in for the injured Stuart Storer ( 12.17 ) . |
| 3 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 4 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 5 | As a result of the rebellion in 1745 , there was no election in the burgh of Montrose , and indeed there may well have been no elections in a number of other burghs , but Montrose stands out for the following reason . |
| 6 | ‘ Rover stands out for the dogged determination with which its faced a world recession , for introducing an ever wider range of quality cars and for the spectacular success of Land Rover ’ |
| 7 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 8 | Its end , that is , the singular future that lies ahead for the collapsing object . |
| 9 | The confidential reports , leaked by the unions , were compiled by 15 internal ‘ taskforces ’ charged with considering the BBC 's prospects as it gears up for the public debate over renewing its royal charter in 1996 . |
| 10 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 11 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 12 | Vic waits law-abidingly for the green light , then presses the accelerator hard . |
| 13 | After a week , Shaun calls back for the full container and drops off a new one . |
| 14 | I compared my yardages with a wheel once , and we were no more than two paces out for the whole course . |
| 15 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 16 | And Hoddle 's Heroes … a town turns out for the big salute . |
| 17 | This accounts partly for the vast success of ‘ Made in Italy ’ . |
| 18 | Neil teaches at the Guildhall School of Music in London and , like most of the artists listed here , teaches and plays regularly for the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford . |
| 19 | The company 's Paris division is reputedly achieving similar levels of success , which bodes well for the new outlets due to open in Frankfurt and Madrid by the end of the year . |
| 20 | He pays up for the Big Turn but , ’ she shook her head and compressed her lips together , ‘ she 's never once swept that stair . ’ |
| 21 | It 's a sort of goodwill thing that Bonn puts out for the Allied forces ; it does n't outsell Playboy . |
| 22 | While I think he is right to criticise those who propounded a social gospel earlier in the century he does so for the wrong reason . |
| 23 | The selected ‘ A ’ squad then works together for the targeted event by means of a series of residential training sessions . |
| 24 | Darren Jackson comes in for the suspended Mike Ford … |
| 25 | But when it comes up for the real audit , what job , is it going to encourage jobs that are audited . |
| 26 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 27 | The tutorial supplied is excellent and more than makes up for the formal style of the manuals . |
| 28 | But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones . |
| 29 | One glimpse of the world 's most spectacular waterfall makes up for the tiresome form-filling in baking customs halls which any African border crossing entails — neither Botswana nor Zimbabwe are suitable for those who wilt quickly in the heat or ca n't stomach light aircraft . |
| 30 | This is a conflict of interest which can not easily be overcome and hardly augurs well for the future reconciliation of the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural rural population . |