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Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [vb base] for " in BNC.

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1	The skills of salesmanship and political demagogy are virtually the only methods we have for changing perception .
2	Packed with information on the animals we use for food , clothing , entertainment , transport or in scientific experiments .
3	Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money .
4	Membership is free ; we earn our living by deducting a small commission ( between 5% and 15% ) from any royalties we collect for you .
5	There were none of the comforts we take for granted now .
6	Sometimes we come very close to the world outside , for example when we hear someone say the words we need for a piece of writing we 're involved in we commit it lovingly to memory so we can use it .
7	The experiences we organise for our learners vary according to the command of the language they have .
8	erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates .
9	During Christian Aid Week itself it is the finds we make for customers that delight us , whether it is discovering just the right dictionary to fit the schoolbag of the 7-year-old son of a young bus-driver , just one number of the National Geographic magazine to complete someone 's sequence , or some early Penguins or American periodicals for the University or National Library collections .
10	‘ No , I was only thinking about all those prayers we say for the conversion of China .
11	The post-Comintern Communist Movement , the Socialist International , international Fascist organizations , and the Green movement ( about which more will be said below ) provide the only models we have for such organizations , and none of these can be currently regarded as successful in global terms .
12	Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court .
13	There will be both American and Japanese ranges in the Starfield line and the two guitars we have for review are from the latter source .
14	For instance , in five-a-sides we play for Mars Bars .
15	‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency .
16	‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting .
17	If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between .
18	Erm , I work for Scottish Women 's Football and the plans we have for this year erm , shall hopefully encourage more women to come into the sport .
19	It means broadening our agenda and questioning the decisions on which it is based , the reasons we go for one story and exclude others .
20	It is not the question of what in general we say when we assert such conditionals , or what they are about , but the question of what reasons we have for saying what we do .
21	Since the values for E and G vary , of course , for each solid the values we get for the theoretical strengths will vary too .
22	‘ He is ideal because he is both a statesman and an artist [ he used to write rather stodgy plays ] , and we believe he shares the values we stand for , ’ says an ICA spokesman .
23	‘ The leisure industry has paid lip service to the sort of groups we cater for , ’ he said .
24	If you 're there for a week , you could comfortably play the two groups we recommend for their value , hospitality and enjoy some agreeable accommodation .
25	As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with .
26	The reason I joined the G M B and I 'm sure most of you was , in good times the G M B looks for improvements in pay and conditions , in bad times we look for holding on to what we have got .
27	At other times we search for someone who can then do the searching for us .
28	Commitment to the values and principles we stand for , reinforced by the recognition that — unlike the other opposition parties — we gained ground on 9 April , must be combined with realism about the further progress and change that will be necessary if Labour is to achieve victory in 1996 or 97 .
29	As with all dreams we reach for the ideal … ’
30	The basic figures we have for this emigration — 100,000 prisoners of war brought from Palestine into Egypt by Ptolemy I ( Aristeas 12–14 ) and 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt at the time of Philo ( in Flacc. 43 ) — are almost certainly both false .