Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the agent either sends an invoice to the artist for the commission , or arranges for the commission to be paid by the promoters . |
| 2 | This record features lowdown bass that goes for the backs of your legs and up a bit . |
| 3 | It 's difficult to describe in detail without spoiling the effect for future viewers , something that goes for the whole film . |
| 4 | It was concluded that low cost tools have limitations but can provide useful experience to system builders that allows for the critical selection of more advanced software . |
| 5 | It is an attitude that allows for the acceptance of continual change and advancement . |
| 6 | A form of strict liability may be created by wording that allows for the practicability of precautions . |
| 7 | Bowers , for example , reviews research indicating that speed falls from 55 to 45 km/h in such zones , with the associated implication that speeds for the fastest 15 per cent of drivers would be above 50 to 55 km/h . |
| 8 | It can be judged from these that plans for the subscription were fairly advanced before her death . |
| 9 | Concern was also expressed about smoke from the barbecue interfering with other sporting fixtures , and it was agreed that plans for the proposed verandah should be viewed by the parish council before going to the district . |
| 10 | The Royal Society of Nature Conservation ( RSNC ) has predicted that plans for the restructuring of local government will have a detrimental effect on Britain 's wildlife . |
| 11 | The BBC , however , is neither the arbiter of morals nor exists for the benefit of a cultural elite . |
| 12 | In all the Odes there is scarcely a strophe , perhaps hardly a line , that does not transmute word order into word mosaic , a deliberate fragmentation that creates for the reader the pleasurable tension of wondering how the sense will be resolved , accompanied by the stimulus of casual associations , as one word runs against another . |
| 13 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 14 | As the implications of another disastrous election defeat begin to be analysed , it is clear that calls for the Labour Party to embrace PR as a way of breaking the Tory stranglehold are gaining in strength . |
| 15 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 16 | We believe that it is the failure to map from roles to names that accounts for the difficulty in keeping track of who is doing what to whom in certain complicated texts with many characters — some Russian novels , for example . |
| 17 | It may be modern unwillingness to accept that there were activities in ancient societies which we do not understand that accounts for the embarrassing silence of archaeology on the Andean lines and its stubborn resistance to a proper treatment of the ley theory in Britain . |
| 18 | The map for platinum above right shows a very thin platinum-rich outer layer ( only 2 micrometres thick ) that accounts for the silver-grey colour of the grain . |
| 19 | We shall find all these features clearly exemplified in the talk that accounts for the action on the terraces and that makes what happened in school meaningful and right . |
| 20 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 21 | Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 22 | To return to one of our initial examples , consider the belief that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 23 | It 's reported that the price of CD players will shortly tumble as Matsushita market a machine that retails for the low price of £280 — about half the price of the company 's launch model . |
| 24 | And , because all this capability was part of the Macintosh operating system it was available to any software developer so almost every package that appears for the system works the same way . |
| 25 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 26 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 27 | But now that the resort is quieter and cleaner , it more than compensates for the lack of clothes bargains . |
| 28 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 29 | Money-Go-Round : One European parliament that speaks for the elderly |
| 30 | it to be rewritten we usually have one event after Christmas that pays for the extra gas and heating that we use . |