Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where do all that money go for the fee ? |
| 2 | That decision called for the establishment of joint working parties , for each of the subject areas , with responsibility for devising guidelines for the new syllabuses and specifying the detailed criteria relating to their assessment . |
| 3 | To understand that stupid , stubborn , eternal desire to light up , it is necessary to understand the special romantic pull that smoking exerts for the left . |
| 4 | This course lasts for the equivalent of three terms , and has two distinct parts . |
| 5 | Adjusting this income to allow for the rise in prices , it seems that the real income fell by more than one-third . |
| 6 | This duality accounts for the generation and alternation of opposites throughout nature , light and dark , moving and still , male and female . |
| 7 | Another Coral goes for the Gold Cup … then there 's Wonder Man … |
| 8 | This plan provided for the withdrawal of Soviet troops in exchange for ‘ guarantees of the neutrality ’ of Afghanistan by the Great Powers and its neighbours and the creation of peace-keeping forces . |
| 9 | This question allows for the possibility of an actual mistake , big or small , as well as acknowledging that you can always do even better than you did . |
| 10 | Piecemeal reclamations of this type account for the intricacy of the system of banks protecting the low-lying pastures surrounding the Wash . |
| 11 | This adjustment compensates for the slope and allows me to swing normally . |
| 12 | A man who spent four heady years as an undergraduate was often advised to go to another place to train for the ministry . |
| 13 | This conference called for the unity of Palestine and Transjordan , and declared Abdallah king of all Palestine . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 15 | The Commission continued during this period to press for the creation of a single EC market in energy , particularly in response to appeals from France , which sought larger export markets for its nuclear-generated electricity . |
| 16 | This relationship lasts for the duration of the Course , unless either party seeks a change . |
| 17 | ( This factor accounts for the perpetuation of a large proportion of inaccurate and incorrect references , as any librarian working on inter-library loans will testify ) . |
| 18 | Nevertheless I am convinced that where , as here , a party can satisfy the court that there is a genuine risk of prosecution for some offence which is not within the scope of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 ’ — e.g. conspiracy — ‘ or any similar statutory provision , it is not open to this court to substitute for the privilege against self-incrimination some other protection based on an order restricting the use of disclosed material . |
| 19 | And are you this morning applying for the protection order in respect of the Edisford Bridge Hotel ? |
| 20 | … anxious to prevent this Movement fighting for the preservation of the Paris Bourse , the London Stock Exchange , the Amsterdam Exchange , and Wall Street . |
| 21 | Mrs Bennet came to clean four times a week now , and another woman came for the washing , and Julia often wondered how she would have managed without them . |
| 22 | Another woman reached for the speaker 's hand and started stroking it . |
| 23 | Trivers ( 1971 ) used essentially this argument to account for the evolution of ‘ reciprocal altruism ’ , in which animals cooperate only with those that cooperate with them . |
| 24 | The federal prime minister , Mr Ante Markovic , rang up President Bush earlier this week pleading for the administration 's help . |
| 25 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 26 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 27 | This arrangement accounts for the bulk of the hotel 's travel agent bookings . |
| 28 | The eastern Alps have been suggested as an example of such ‘ flake tectonics ’ since this mechanism accounts for the existence of a ‘ platelet ’ in the Alps which is much thinner than normal and dips in a southerly direction ( Fig. 3.20(B) ) . |
| 29 | Surely you must have some urge to fight for the company Gran founded on caring , sharing principles … ? ’ |
| 30 | This correlation argues for the possibility of synthesis of platelet activating factor precursors in cells sensitive to gastrin stimulation . |