Example sentences of "pattern [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another advanced pattern is for the physiotherapist to hold a cloth stretched between her hands : the patient holds the cloth in his hemiplegic hand and follows the movements as the physiotherapist takes the cloth in different directions , guiding the patient 's arm around , forwards and backwards . |
| 2 | The normal pattern is for the initial expansionist phase to give way to a marginal state , which eventually leads through recession to the residual phase . |
| 3 | A common inner-city pattern is for the fronting rule to be superseded by a lowering rule ( before voiceless stops and in polysyllables ) , or a backing rule ( in other environments ) in the speech of younger speakers . |
| 4 | The three years in which the public sector was in surplus and repaying outstanding debt may be seen as exceptional ; the normal pattern is for the government to be a net seller of debt . |
| 5 | The typical pattern is for the Japanese businessman to eat at a restaurant in the evening and thereafter go to a bar or cabaret . |
| 6 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |