Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
| 2 | ‘ It was n't easy paying for both the new carpet and the runabout . ’ |
| 3 | For those regular expert witnesses who feel the need to charge more than £90 an hour ( or £500 for their initial report in a medical negligence case ) an explanation should be proffered to avoid subsequent substantial difficulty on taxation , and the words ‘ as recommended by the BMA ’ would not normally suffice for either the retaining lawyer or the court . |
| 4 | They have been widely used for over a hundred and fifty years . |
| 5 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 6 | Firm mobility usually accounts for only a small proportion of employment growth in any area , with most coming from existing or new indigenous firms ( Cross 1981 ; Watts 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 8 | It also made for quite a wet ride as the Seayak ‘ bobbed ’ downwards . |
| 9 | She now writes for both the British and American press . |
| 10 | Japanese industry now accounts for nearly a third of sales . |
| 11 | But it 's the establishment front runner in the US , where Dell pioneered the direct marketing of PCs , which now accounts for almost a third of the total market . |
| 12 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 13 | Humans , we are told , never tolerate for long the predatory and revolutionary power of money without constraining it . |
| 14 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |