Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Pacific Water " , on the other hand , is a dynamic , upward-spiralling form which represents for the artist " the sparkling , clear visual quality of Pacific water ( OED definition " tending to Peace " ) — water in its purest form " . |
| 2 | So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " . |
| 3 | To cope with these feelings of helplessness and infantile-like dependency on external events and factors there has to be a myth which allows for the possibility of being heroic , apart from being a martyr . |
| 4 | And for teachers already using ( or wanting to adopt ) the approach described here , it acknowledges and reflects their wider concerns , offering a framework which allows for the possibility of building in collaboration as an integral feature of teaching and learning across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 5 | It has a theoretical structure which allows for the possibility of a variety of ‘ racisms ’ , depending upon how various elements of ‘ race ’ , ethnicity and nationality are combined , how they are articulated with gender and class , and how they are related to theories in the natural and social sciences and notions in popular culture and common sense . |
| 6 | A carefully graded syllabus which allows for the recycling of language |
| 7 | The new technology was made possible by the development of Split-Level Diagonal Bit-line , which allows for the construction of circuitry on a two level bit-line , thus saving space ; a new form of trench isolation technology in which a buried oxide in the shape of an inverted triangle allows smooth operation at the 256M-bit level ; and a cylindrical capacitor which uses hemispherical grained silicon — HSG-Si . |
| 8 | This has been through the use of Repertory Grid Technique which , as a practical application of construct theory has been defined as , ‘ Any form of sorting task which allows for the assessment of relationships … in matrix form ’ ( Bannister and Mair , 1968 , p. 136 ) . |
| 9 | Moderation in behaviour , which allows for the ability to interact tranquilly , is achieved by attaining mastery over one 's ‘ life of senses ’ and one 's ‘ life of thoughts ’ ( Overing 1985 ) . |
| 10 | The international prescriptive process operates through the chain of response and counter-response to the articulation of claims which allows for the prediction of future behaviour . |
| 11 | Indeed U may have no conventional meaning , which allows for the creation of new terms , nonce expressions , and thus ultimately for some aspects of language change ( for an explanation of how these communications may be understood , see Schiffer , 1972 : Chapter V ) But crucial for pragmatics , Grice 's theory explains how there can be interesting discrepancies between speaker-meaning ( Grice 's meaning-nn ) and sentence-meaning . |
| 12 | Day 30 Paid himself wages for the month of £320 calculated on the basis of £80 per week for a 40 hr week . |
| 13 | We all accept the physical free-for-all which passes for the January sales . |
| 14 | Strict conventionalism must claim a " gap " in the law , which calls for the exercise of extralegal judicial discretion to make new law , whenever a statute is vague or ambiguous or otherwise troublesome and there is no further convention settling how it must be read . |
| 15 | The EC has threatened to impose economic sanctions on any Yugoslav republic that rejects its proposal , which calls for the break-up of Yugoslavia in its current form . |
| 16 | They like a recent report by the Australian Manufacturing Council , which calls for the government to support industry and promote exports . |
| 17 | We shall begin by discussing uses where it expresses the mere state of being aware of a fact , a sense which calls for the use of the to and never the bare infinitive . |
| 18 | Since a condition has a logical priority with respect to what it allows , there is a before/after relation between what know predicates and what the infinitive does , which calls for the use of to . |
| 19 | This we have called antecedent , a way of seeing causation which calls for the use of the to infinitive to signify the before/after relation between the cause and the effect . |
| 20 | This , it will be argued , corresponds in fact to the way allow ( and also permit ) represent permission , a way of viewing this notion which calls for the use of to before the infinitive . |
| 21 | They deserve examination before any investigation of the more obviously historical evidence which survives for the reigns of Childeric and Clovis . |
| 22 | It follows that fear of impending death felt by the victim of a fatal injury before that injury is inflicted can not by itself give rise to a cause of action which survives for the benefit of the victim 's estate . |
| 23 | He 's one of Stoneley 's men , which accounts for the courtesy . ’ |
| 24 | Experiments are strong on causal logic , which accounts for the enthusiasm some social scientists have had for them . |
| 25 | The surface of Mercury , broadly speaking , can be divided into two types of terrain , heavily cratered terrain , which accounts for about 80% of the imaged hemisphere , and smooth plains , which accounts for the remainder . |
| 26 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
| 27 | The limestone was deposited in very quiet water conditions , which accounts for the preservation of this delicate little fossil . |
| 28 | His daughter by his first wife , and only child , married into the Hulton family of Lancashire , which accounts for the survival of his papers in the County Record Office at Preston and in the British Library . |
| 29 | In the past 100 years , the only time it was defeated was in Mussolini 's reign , which accounts for the popularity among older Neapolitans , sick of living with Mafioso , for his granddaughter . |
| 30 | It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises . |