Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 3 | In addition , even though a fifth of total income is derived from occupational pensions , the vast majority of pensioners rely on social security either for all or for a significant proportion of their income : two-thirds of them receive 80 per cent or more of their income from this source . |
| 4 | The questions which must be asked are : i Do specialist multi-agency dementia teams provide a model for the planning and provision of domiciliary day and respite care for all or for a proportion of the sufferers in a community ? |
| 5 | His was the quiet type of a Christ-lived life , and his influence was marked for good and for a strong quality of wisdom which left its mark upon many whom he came in contact with from day to day . |
| 6 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 7 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |
| 8 | Suss collaborated at Clara Mosch from 1977 to 1982 and for a long time worked with coloured linocuts . |
| 9 | A draft State Ecological Programme , published on June 28 , 1989 , called for 400,000 million roubles to be spent , for an end to discharges of effluent into lakes and rivers by 2000 and for a halving of atmospheric pollutants by 2005 . |