Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb -s] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 2 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 3 | The validity of a local search result only lasts for two months , and if there is delay in finding a buyer , the search may be extended under the Local Search Validation Insurance Scheme . |
| 4 | Erm The Trac Trade Union Council in Mansfield basically supports for two reasons . |
| 5 | At the risk of indelicacy , one would suggest that such a condition usually accounts for some five or six days of inactivity . |
| 6 | The MEC usually meets for 1½–2 hrs and may discuss or note changes to around 50 student cases . |
| 7 | Some privately employed labour also works for non-profit-making bodies . |
| 8 | The breeder programme also lives for another year . |
| 9 | This effect also obtains for total eurobonds , in which case it is likely to proxy the uncertainty and adverse interest rate expectations caused by a falling dollar . |
| 10 | Interest in the GCR never seems to wane , borne out by the fact that copies of our first volume have all been sold , and correspondence from readers invariably asks for more . |
| 11 | Fraud essentially occurs for two reasons — inherent criminal intent or the resort to deceit and plunder in a vain attempt to salvage a crumbling empire . |
| 12 | Absorption by methane certainly accounts for much of this solar heating , but its abundance may be insufficient to produce the whole effect , in which case there may be an as yet unidentified absorber such as a thin suspension of black soot from the photodissociation of methane . |
| 13 | For the MPhil the portfolio should include one work suitable to form the major item in a concert programme , like a symphony or concerto ; this course normally lasts for two years . |
| 14 | The 1951 Act also provides for personal as well as corporate liability . |
| 15 | The Institute also calls for legislative changes that would require companies to hold an agm within six months of the end of the accounting year ( as opposed to nine months ) . |
| 16 | The committee also calls for stronger links between industry and universities . |
| 17 | Dissociation of initiation from propagation probably accounts for abortive spikes such as those observed in HeLa cells responding to low doses of histamine . |
| 18 | Czerny also calls for this tempo in the Menuetto in Canone of Mozart 's String Quintet in C minor , KS16b/406 ( after the Wind Serenade , K384a/388 ) , and for the same reason , so that we can feel the hemiola crosswinds blowing from its first bars onward . |
| 19 | Set up in 1984 , Radio RIN currently broadcasts for 20 hours a day and successfully competes with many of the country 's commercial stations . |
| 20 | MARTINA Navratilova 's bitter disappointment at the US Open left a bad taste in her mouth , but the winner of 18 Grand Slam titles still craves for more . |
| 21 | The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training . |
| 22 | Mayfair Road also allows for easy access to the Ring Road network , A40/M40 . |
| 23 | The Directive also provides for pregnant workers ' right not to do night work if they have a doctor 's certificate stating that such work would endanger their health . |
| 24 | Unleaded fuel now accounts for 46.7 per cent of all the petrol consumed in the EC , according to figures released by Eurostat , the Community 's statistics office . |
| 25 | UK business now accounts for some 30% of the European total . |
| 26 | Being a teacher today constitutes for many just such an intense set of pressures , stresses , conflicts and uncertainties which often leads people to behave in ways which they do not like , but seem powerless to control . |
| 27 | The EC 's Habitat Directive specifically calls for internationally-important sites below sea level to be protected . |
| 28 | This type of photography also calls for other specialists such as home economists to prepare and present the food in front of the camera , room set designers and model makers . |
| 29 | As well as the obvious left-right-fire functions , the Freewheel also allows for up-down movements , making it a whizz for aircraft action . |
| 30 | In urban areas in Britain , over 37 per cent of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot , yet official data continue to stress that walking only accounts for three per cent of all mileage . |