Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations .
2 But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed .
3 So the , the eating habits have changed a lot since then although we have shops which cater for every need of the immigrant community .
4 It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time .
5 READERS who care for a dementia sufferer may like to know that Counsel & Care has just published a fact sheet which could be of considerable help to them .
6 Some were clergy who stayed for a week or two .
7 The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity .
8 The directors understand they have a credibility problem with the supporters who called for the sacking of the board at the end of last week 's drawn home game with Partick Thistle .
9 Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won .
10 Enthusiasts , such as the Nobel prizewinners who vouched for the SSC 's promise in Washington on April 13th , would point out that the SSC is not meant to boost the superconductor industry — it is meant to find new physics .
11 Sometimes we come very close to the world outside , for example when we hear someone say the words we need for a piece of writing we 're involved in we commit it lovingly to memory so we can use it .
12 He had no sense of give and take ; no idea of the concessions one made for the sake of social comfort .
13 With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading .
14 But the more closely historians examine the seventeenth century , the more precedents they find for the innovations associated with the name of Peter the Great .
15 They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours .
16 The report says : ‘ Few pupils have the basic books they require for the GCSE without financial support from home .
17 ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life .
18 As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed .
19 ‘ Practice ’ need not be eschewed as part of higher education ; but its presence in the curriculum must be justified in terms of the opportunities it affords for the student 's critical reflection .
20 Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 .
21 I think that is a , there is a need to look into this , it is an area where we have n't looked into at the moment , and when you consider the valuable work that our staff in the D S O organisation does , and the profit it makes for this county council , and the savings it makes for the county council , it would be sensible for us to also look into building maintenance as well .
22 And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them .
23 The largest opening in the archosaur skull was the orbit , housing the eyes ; behind this were two temporal openings which allowed for the bulging of the jaw muscles and might even serve to make the skull lighter , since with increasing body size every feature that could reduce weight helped .
24 In 1508–9 , 20 per cent of the value of Newcastle 's trade was already in coal , and in the following decade there was a boom in coal exports which compensated for a slump in those of wool .
25 The extent to which some villages were involved in the woollen industry by the beginning of the nineteenth century is demonstrated by the 1806 militia returns which survive for the collection of West Riding townships which lay within Staincross wapentake .
26 I have to get down all the colours or elements I want for the poem .
27 In Kufra , the barber , the hotel cooks , some shop managers , tailors and garage mechanics were non-Libyan , as were some of the workers in those larger gardens which produced for the market .
28 Although the lines are exceedingly fine ( ie , just resolved ) at this distance , increasing the separation between source and observer can produce very strong lines which account for the glare I have noticed .
29 It was the visitors who pressed for the meeting .
30 He was one of 100 youngsters who auditioned for the role of a boy who remains on stage all through , being told the story in flashback .
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