Example sentences of "[that] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pavel levers himself into his car , forcing movement out of a body that longs for sleep more than anything else . |
| 2 | It is a bird spirit that longs for freedom . |
| 3 | The fact that many made inquiries so early in secondment suggests an anxiety about the future that made for insecurity rather than stabilisation . |
| 4 | One reason for this increased loss of revenue to the Exchequer has been the raising of the ceiling on the size of mortgages that qualify for tax subsidies . |
| 5 | Then your detective should have much more of the qualities that make for success in a real police officer , and much less vulnerability to comic events . |
| 6 | Banks that lent for property at the top of the market would be wrong to bail out near the bottom |
| 7 | They recommended that grants for land improvement and drainage should be withdrawn from Section 43 areas and that all capital grant schemes in the LFA should be modified to encourage a wide range of conservation measures . |
| 8 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 9 | There was criticism of much that passed for training . |
| 10 | It held passion and fire , it was a kiss of domination that asked for surrender yet promised surrender in return . |
| 11 | Mr John Lamidey , an officer of the Data Protection Registrar , concluded after visiting the league 's London office that the data on computer was not that used for vetting , which ‘ appears to be held on paper ’ . |
| 12 | The definition includes simultaneous reception at more than one location , and also distinguishes between programming provided for business purposes and that provided for entertainment . |
| 13 | Or put another way , for every £1 00 of your income that counts for income tax purposes up to £2,000 , you have to pay £20 to the Exchequer — and are allowed to keep the remaining £80 . |
| 14 | They 're going overland by motorbike ; it 's all in aid of SNAP the charity that stands for Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents at the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 15 | Jesus asked for the ‘ cup ’ to be taken away from him ; the cup that stands for death : |
| 16 | I think you should , allowances should be at at least support you in that and also from those allowances other resources that provide for research etcetera for the members . |
| 17 | That 's because it 's a breath of fresh air compared to some of the muck that passes for music in the popular music charts . |
| 18 | Witness in the New Testament is neither the silent churchgoing that passes for witness among many Christians , nor the sickening self-advertisement that often results when a believer ‘ gives his testimony ’ ; but simple factual reference to the historical Jesus , his death and resurrection , his gift of the Spirit , and his present availability and power . |
| 19 | The majority decided that challenge for fraud was precluded after six weeks . |
| 20 | Precedent has been laid down that cause for separation lies where a spouse resorts to " unnatural practices " with a third party and , perhaps , where a spouse submits to " indecent liberties " by a person of the opposite or the same sex ( Mogg v. |
| 21 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 22 | It is also worth reminding the reader that searching for fraud is not the audit 's primary purpose . |
| 23 | The more likely scenario is that support for SAG will wane , funding from members will dry up and DRDA will become a de facto standard by default . |
| 24 | Thus it is pointed out that support for microelectronics has been biased towards the south of the country , and it is argued that emphasis on a division between sunrise and sunset , on finance at the expense of manufacturing , on entrepreneurship and new firms as opposed to restructuring existing industries , will all encourage the confinement of the fifth wave of economic growth to a few small areas of the country . |
| 25 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 26 | The notion that support for democracy might mean taking sides in a kind of class war will seem absurd to most people today . |
| 27 | I mean , I 'm not into things that happen for effect or for taste ; I like doing things that mean something . |
| 28 | The council statement said Coun Harvison and leader of the Labour group Arthur Taylor appreciated that paying for training was normal , ‘ but were concerned that the unemployed would not be able to apply for one of the 70 part-time instructors ’ jobs . |
| 29 | He therefore suggests that yearning for growth , should constitute the criteria by which a church is assessed ( van Engen 1981:448ff ) . |
| 30 | Where the extreme view differs from more moderate views is in playing down — or even ignoring — crucial differences between the contexts of learning that obtain for oral and for written language , and between the language modes themselves . |