Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon men that and his righteousness Joy be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost . |
| 2 | and it goes for ever and ever |
| 3 | Monkey Mia , on the remote western coastline of Australia , has for more than two decades been visited by wild dolphins . |
| 4 | IBM 's famous opinion survey is alive and well , running every second year , as it has for more than 20 years . |
| 5 | This is a city which lives for today while surrounded by its past . |
| 6 | The Teesside branch of the charity organises activity trips for more than 200 ‘ young people at risk ’ every year . |
| 7 | It 's long and straight and takes for ever but eventually we get to the outskirts of Newbury . |
| 8 | As my hon. Friend rightly pointed out , no patient in his area waits for more than two years and there has been a dramatic fall in the number of those who have to wait a year . |
| 9 | Mr Akehurst questions the wisdom of ensuring no-one waits for more than two years for hospital treatment a key Tory election pledge as this would result in people with low priority conditions holding up treatments for people with more urgent clinical needs . |
| 10 | Clawbacks will be triggered if the public applies for more than 1.75 times the near-24 per cent of the issue provisionally reserved for small buyers . |
| 11 | Syntactic structure accounts for well and ill-formedness . |
| 12 | Oil accounts for more than 50% of the gross domestic product and more than 90% of export revenue . |
| 13 | But such projects and a successful geothermal programme which now accounts for more than 10% of Kenya 's electricity will do little to reduce the oil dependence which helps keep Kenya and many other African countries caught in an energy trap . |
| 14 | According to some estimates , ICI accounts for more than 20% of civilian R&D in the UK . |
| 15 | Production now accounts for more than five per cent of the national pig kill . |
| 16 | That managed competition may increase in time but it is stretching credibility a long way to suggest that a company that accounts for more than 96 per cent . |
| 17 | This means , in a year , car crime accounts for more than five million pounds in Milton Keynes . |
| 18 | It should be pointed out , however , that the results of the Forster and Olbrei experiment do not provide evidence for a constant effect of syntactic analysis since a correlation coefficient of.65 accounts for less than 40 per cent of the variance in processing times . |
| 19 | Rape , for example , accounts for less than 1.5 per cent . |
| 20 | A Nottinghamshire Day Centre which caters for more than a hundred mentally handicapped people is facing closure . |
| 21 | No deal lasts for ever and not even the most skilful draftsman can cater for every eventuality when drawing up a service contract . |
| 22 | Aluminium benching is easily the best , as it virtually lasts for ever and is easily cleaned . |
| 23 | This complex and beautiful structure seldom lasts for more than one night . |
| 24 | BI The name of the mythical northern cockerel ; a reverie that lasts for more than twenty ( Earth ) years |
| 25 | Income Support is not available to anyone who works for more than 24 hours a week . |