Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
| 2 | More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today . |
| 3 | Will my right Hon. Friend confirm that the authority 's detailed proposals will be published before the summer , and will those proposals include advertising campaigns on tobacco and alcohol abuse , which account for more than 100,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom ? |
| 4 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 5 | I do n't know what we want for tonight but we might go down my sister 's this afternoon so we want something easy for when we come back . |
| 6 | Young people from working-class backgrounds , for instance , are more likely to spend time with a boy/girl-friend whereas young people from G middle-class backgrounds continue to move around in mixed sex groups for a longer period , perhaps anticipating an extended period of dependence on parents as they head for further or higher education . |
| 7 | Yet they count for little when balanced against his blindness to the cultural ferment which was agitating educated Germany by the later decades of his reign and his ignorant contempt for most of the greatest German writers and scholars of the age . |
| 8 | But also there you can ministers because minis er churches they count for more than two years stop being central funds and therefore , if we had too many |