Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For April 6 is also the day when the over 60s will be eligible for tax relief on the premiums they pay for private medical insurance . |
| 2 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 3 | The Queen for her own part will have to face up to the fact that , however perfect her public role , she has dismally failed in private to give her children the guidance they needed for stable marriages . |
| 4 | The legal work they do for other clients gives them this experience . |
| 5 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 6 | The towering striker put United 2–0 ahead in the 68th minute of a match they dominated for most of the time . |
| 7 | My guess is he 's moved across to some private security firm — the sort they use for unattributable jobs like this . |
| 8 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 9 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 10 | The problem with them , however , is that it is not always clear what predictions they make for particular paradigms ( Alba & Hasher , 1983 ; Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 12 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 13 | Gloucesters , can I help you ? erm Monday through to Friday , nine to five Basically we 're a shop for the soldiers to buy erm clothing , any sort of items they need for everyday life in the army . |
| 14 | The question is whether the ‘ power ’ referred to was the power to write poetry ; for though the Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) are of high quality they mark for most people the end of Wordsworth 's poetic life . |
| 15 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 16 | In May 1940 , the RCM general secretary wrote to the Chief Rabbi , pointing out ‘ that our Regional Committees are autonomous and neither they nor the committees under them like interference in the arrangements they make for religious instruction ’ . |
| 17 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 18 | Their second objective is to qualify their own champion which they aim to do with the black pup they plan for late 1993 . |
| 19 | Council , although , the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse ! |
| 20 | In addition they called for lower taxes , free health care , cheaper housing loans and increased spending on state-owned industries . |
| 21 | First their report was published as a booklet , ‘ Hire purchase and Credit Buying ’ , which gave factual information about the various methods and the legislation controlling them , their advantages and disadvantages and the dangers they hold for thoughtless or inexperienced people ; and also a leaflet setting out some of the points to be taken into account when undertaking hire purchase . |
| 22 | In a similar fashion large companies frequently reduce the cash element or where they supply materials to be processed by subcontractors , increase the prices they charge for these materials . |
| 23 | It was a memorable tour by the Pakistanis and the bottom line must be the magnificent spectacle of cricket they provided for all who watched them . |
| 24 | The word they use for this ( berani ) is Malay but , more commonly , they simply negate the word fearful . |
| 25 | Pray that leaders would make strong relationships with their team , and that by the love they have for one another and the joy experienced , others would come to know God . |
| 26 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 27 | When they left the restaurant they stood for some moments surveying the view of Prague , its many spires , red-roofed buildings , with a green dome here , the Vltava river with some of its bridges there , the Charles Bridge in particular Then , ‘ Shall we walk the rest of the way down ? ’ |
| 28 | FORD , rejected as sponsors by the Premier League , yesterday became part of a £1.2m package which will ensure ITV recoup almost a third of the £4m they paid for exclusive coverage of Rangers ' European Cup ties . |
| 29 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 30 | I wanted to find a better job , but for a factory you need to have finished school and in the coffee processing industries they ask for ninth grade . |