Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He craves success the way an alcoholic longs for another drink . |
| 2 | In the heart of London and in its leafy suburbs , English Heritage cares for some marvellous properties which survive , after extensive restoration , almost in their original state . |
| 3 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 4 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 5 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 6 | It would be easy to dismiss this significance were it not for the fact that general or national interests continue to be important and highly effective rallying cries for much of contemporary politics . |
| 7 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 8 | Suppose the result holds for all simpler triples ( P' , Q' , R' ) . |
| 9 | The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money . |
| 10 | Although , therefore , Dicey 's sharp distinction between the application and interpretation of statute suffices for most practical purposes , it ultimately breaks down in the face of changing views of the contours of the political community or of serious threats to the central tenets of liberal democracy . |
| 11 | The latter figure allows for those who played the market : those who , having bought shares as a result of one or more privatizations , sold them in order to realize a quick capital gain . |
| 12 | Our focus here is on information received by the enterprise from the external environment ; but a similar dilemma exists for any type of information within the firm . |
| 13 | If any LIFESPAN mail exists for that user , it is emptied into a file ( * . |
| 14 | If the relocation package appears very favourable , the company may find itself paying out relocation costs for more staff than it had budgeted for . |
| 15 | Measures included ( i ) the elimination of taxes on fuel and gas oils and on kerosene ; ( ii ) extended tax rebates for exporters , calculated to be worth between US$670,000,000 and US$1,100 million per annum ; ( iii ) the reduction of the highest import tariff from 35 per cent to 20 per cent ; ( iv ) tariff increases for many intermediate industrial products , but the maintenance at zero of the minimum import tariff , which applied to fuels and capital goods not domestically produced ; and ( v ) a " temporary " increase , from 3 to 10 per cent , in a statistics tax levied on nearly all imports . |
| 16 | In effect , without the support of advertisers the British media would be in a poorer and much truncated form : advertising revenue accounts for some 40% of the popular press 's total revenue and some 70% of the qualities ' total revenue ; advertising revenue also finances the commercial television channels , countless commercial radio channels and a sizeable proportion of the new cable and satellite channels . |
| 17 | Flavell accounts for this paradox in terms of , what he calls , cognitive salience , which amounts to the claim that the thought of the three-year-old is determined by whatever is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ at any given moment . |
| 18 | Since Intersolv reckons that maintenance accounts for some half of all programming work in MVS sites , and says that the research makes up for the bulk of this work , the potential time savings for users and the potential market for Intersolv are substantial . |
| 19 | Deep or extended cut accounts for half of all deaths and roof collapses in American mines . |
| 20 | The annual accounts for that year include the sale of a dead horse for fourteen shillings , and the sale of a live one for fifteen pounds . |
| 21 | Economic studies of cleaning , however , have shown that manual labour accounts for some 89 per cent of energy costs which themselves account for as much as 96 per cent of the total cleaning bill . |
| 22 | The history of social action accounts for this to a considerable extent and all students of social administration must turn to some reading of the development of social policy . |
| 23 | To suggest that the signs are up in order to show a ‘ vigorous contempt for the people whose productive labour pays for all their intellectual endeavour ’ is not only wrong but reinforces the old stereotype of ‘ them and us ’ which at least some colleges are trying to break down . |
| 24 | However , in panic attacks the fear lasts for many minutes compared with only seconds or minutes in complex partial seizures ( unless status develops ) . |
| 25 | While the familial basis of women 's oppression remains for all classes , upper class women have more chance for freedom than their working-class sisters who suffer a double oppression . |
| 26 | The second exception is where an agent receives a commission or discount from a third party and it is the usual practice of the business in which the agent operates for such a commission or discount to be paid . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the search continues for another nine guns . |
| 28 | The long quest by Amstrad Plc , Brentwood , Essex to find some non-executive directors has culminated in the appointment of Jeoff Samson , and the search continues for more names to strengthen the board further . |
| 29 | This retardation effect continues for several growing seasons and produces an indented conical depression . ’ |
| 30 | Once mastered , structured talk makes for more thought . |