Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 2 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 3 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |
| 4 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 5 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 6 | It 's just like when someone pays for a park bench — they get a little plaque with their name on it , do n't they ? : - ) |
| 7 | " Pacific Water " , on the other hand , is a dynamic , upward-spiralling form which represents for the artist " the sparkling , clear visual quality of Pacific water ( OED definition " tending to Peace " ) — water in its purest form " . |
| 8 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 9 | No more can x be " something which stands for a number " since one could equally well imagine it standing for a matrix or even the differential operator |
| 10 | Alan Pugh is the secretary of another group of initials , BFICC , which stands for the British Facsimile Industry Consultative Committee . |
| 11 | The most direct approach leaves the village by way of Glen Canisp , taking advantage of a rough road to a shooting lodge and then continuing on a good track along the north base of the mountain until opposite the obvious saddle ; here the track , which heads for the more orthodox mountain of Canisp , is left and a watery beeline made for the foot of the gully descending from the saddle . |
| 12 | So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " . |
| 13 | A HOSPICE which cares for the terminally ill is holding a special fund-raising week . |
| 14 | ‘ A few people remembered her riding around the district on a sit-up-and-beg bike , with her photographic equipment in the basket , ’ says Sue Furness , of Yorkshire Image , which cares for the ‘ Kruckenberg Collection . ’ . |
| 15 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 16 | In the interests of conciseness and convention , it is necessary to use here the suffix notation for vector equations which has for the most part been avoided in this book ( the other main exception being the appendix to Chapter 5 ) . |
| 17 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 18 | But movements in oil prices have knock-on effects on other fuels , particularly gas on which plans for a new generation of power stations is based . |
| 19 | Yet it is not absolute in the sense that it is principle apart from morality on which morality itself is founded or a blueprint for conduct which allows for no exceptions . |
| 20 | The cost per head will be £5.00 ( which allows for a contribution to NCT funds if enough of us go ) and its obviously sensible to arrange for us to share 4–5 cars . |
| 21 | Although Goldmann does introduce a measure of reflexivity not present in Marx , Engels and Lukács , it is as a characteristic of the sociology of knowledge which allows for a variety of competing perspectives . |
| 22 | This is that we do not have an a priori conception of reality which allows for a range of possible universes , empirical inquiry determining just which of those possibilities is realized . |
| 23 | The main advantage of the integrated database is , of course , that payroll and personnel information is always " in step " which allows for a consistency not achieved in the past . |
| 24 | Despite the adoption of a global data-structure , an essentially hierarchical flow of information is imposed which allows for a weak interaction between the knowledge sources . |
| 25 | A paradox which allows for an exciting and fulfilling journey — one for which a single lifetime is too short . |
| 26 | A paradox which allows for an exciting and fulfilling journey — one for which a single lifetime is too short . |
| 27 | This species is preserved in a soft shale , but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety . |
| 28 | To cope with these feelings of helplessness and infantile-like dependency on external events and factors there has to be a myth which allows for the possibility of being heroic , apart from being a martyr . |
| 29 | Moderation in behaviour , which allows for the ability to interact tranquilly , is achieved by attaining mastery over one 's ‘ life of senses ’ and one 's ‘ life of thoughts ’ ( Overing 1985 ) . |
| 30 | A carefully graded syllabus which allows for the recycling of language |