Example sentences of "[that] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that often it was jealousy — mixed with booze — that made for a lethal cocktail , with Bogie as the stirrer . |
| 2 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 3 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 4 | It was invented by the Joseph-Robinson corporation , a particularly unscrupulous food company that operated for a time amongst the outer colonies of the planet Earth . ’ |
| 5 | In one recent enquiry into the electricity supply industry , Lord Wilberforce asked the Treasury to submit a memorandum on the significance of the dispute to the interests of the national economy and the Treasury responded with a document that argued for a progressive and substantial reduction in the levels of settlements . |
| 6 | However , the bulk of LDCs have neither oil resources to export nor a diversified manufacturing base , and it is these countries that account for a high proportion of the world 's poor . |
| 7 | Mr Jencks concludes that to search for a comprehensive policy to tackle the underclass is a waste of time ; different policies are needed for different problems that may be only loosely related . |
| 8 | It is true that to search for a legal framework in which the ill-articulated wishes of a testator can be given effect is to regard the testator 's intention . |
| 9 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 10 | And we 've allowed for the fact that cooking for a family or organising a dinner party may take you away from the cooker when you want the food to go on cooking . |
| 11 | Like plants that jostle for a bare minimum of soil and light , human beings would eventually fill all the available territory , he warned . |
| 12 | Duncan asked , now sprawled on the bed , his legs crossed and his head resting against a thin cushion that passed for a pillow . |
| 13 | He had pulled the band of material that passed for a skirt up around her waist and was tugging at the top of her tights . |
| 14 | ‘ So , perhaps a really cynical person would conjecture that you need the money that caddying for a golfer like Harley , who is obviously back in form and on the verge of some big wins and big money , would bring . |
| 15 | He would recognise the need for utility , the same need that provided for a discreetly-concealed compost and refuse heap in the ancient gardens of his homeland . |
| 16 | By the summer , the same show had been enlarged and retitled Jolly Jack or The Heart that Beats for a Sailor . |
| 17 | then star that stands for a wild card , that 'll do all files which have got the back up . |
| 18 | But you and I both know that applying for a stay of more than six months takes time . |
| 19 | On the wall that passes for a kitchen , Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas stare down in fastidious disapproval at Anya 's batterie de cuisine , unfit for whipping up their favourite hashish fudge . |
| 20 | A treatment that allows for a basic continuity underlying the emergence of novelty . |
| 21 | Rosenne concluded that the inclusion of jus cogens , along with the distinction that is drawn between treaties that are void ab initio165 and those that can be subsequently avoided , gives the Convention the flexibility that allows for a reconciliation between its dominant bilateralism and the overall community interest . |
| 22 | Creating a technical structure that allows for a pan-authority electronic mail service is usually as problematic as building the trust and confidence that will allow staff to communicate and make decisions using such a system — let alone remember to log in each day . |
| 23 | And we lack provisions that allows for a presidency in the absence of a minister is a good one as long as it is monitored closely by district council . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd have thought that looking for a gas leak with a lighted match would be the last thing he would do . ’ |
| 25 | I know that looking for a Purple Heart , or V C , erm are but I do believe it needs to be it needs to be clarified . |
| 26 | PACHE LEAVES THOSE THAT HOPE FOR A HAPPY OUTCOME TO BULL 's TRAVAILS WITH LITTLE TO CHEER |
| 27 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 28 | While in new York , I learned that plans for a virtually new Flushing Meadow complex have been dropped |
| 29 | The following month , however , the President announced that plans for a multiparty system were to be implemented and that elections would be held in February 1991 . |
| 30 | But it is vital , before we canonise the creatures , to note that acting for an end ( requiring teleological explanation ) is almost a defining feature of the living world as a whole . |