Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the agent either sends an invoice to the artist for the commission , or arranges for the commission to be paid by the promoters . |
| 2 | This record features lowdown bass that goes for the backs of your legs and up a bit . |
| 3 | It is an attitude that allows for the acceptance of continual change and advancement . |
| 4 | A form of strict liability may be created by wording that allows for the practicability of precautions . |
| 5 | It can be judged from these that plans for the subscription were fairly advanced before her death . |
| 6 | The Royal Society of Nature Conservation ( RSNC ) has predicted that plans for the restructuring of local government will have a detrimental effect on Britain 's wildlife . |
| 7 | The BBC , however , is neither the arbiter of morals nor exists for the benefit of a cultural elite . |
| 8 | In all the Odes there is scarcely a strophe , perhaps hardly a line , that does not transmute word order into word mosaic , a deliberate fragmentation that creates for the reader the pleasurable tension of wondering how the sense will be resolved , accompanied by the stimulus of casual associations , as one word runs against another . |
| 9 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 10 | Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 11 | To return to one of our initial examples , consider the belief that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 12 | We believe that it is the failure to map from roles to names that accounts for the difficulty in keeping track of who is doing what to whom in certain complicated texts with many characters — some Russian novels , for example . |
| 13 | The map for platinum above right shows a very thin platinum-rich outer layer ( only 2 micrometres thick ) that accounts for the silver-grey colour of the grain . |
| 14 | We shall find all these features clearly exemplified in the talk that accounts for the action on the terraces and that makes what happened in school meaningful and right . |
| 15 | And , because all this capability was part of the Macintosh operating system it was available to any software developer so almost every package that appears for the system works the same way . |
| 16 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 17 | But now that the resort is quieter and cleaner , it more than compensates for the lack of clothes bargains . |
| 18 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 19 | As the latter is the only one that works for the majority of UK phones you need to select it when you Install the program . |
| 20 | Far more than incipient political change , it is the random violence that makes for the sense of dread among whites . |
| 21 | It is the peculiar human ability to re-organize and re-describe and re-evaluate from novel points of view that makes for the superiority of the consultants over any set of bibliographical instruments , as well as the human ability to recognize a question as misconceived or stupid . |
| 22 | Taking into account the notion of support , the most satisfactory definition that can be given of the English bare infinitive in the present state of our knowledge is therefore as follows : the bare infinitive is a non-finite verb form that provides for the incidence of its event to a support through all the instants of time required to actualize the complete lexical content of this event . |
| 23 | This neomucisa contains all normal intestinal cell lineages and persists for the life of the animal . |
| 24 | If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court , he may get off with a fine and deportation . |
| 25 | The vintage style Clean 1 is perfect for almost anything , while Clean 2 is enough to bring out the Mutt Lange in anyone — it 's so sparkly , and begs for the addition of some subtle effects . |
| 26 | Hoffs twists some hair and goes for the sexism angle . |
| 27 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 28 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 29 | Nothing seems to happen here , remote from the rest of the world , yet one of the houses supplies weather reports to the BBC and achieves for the community a frequent mention . |
| 30 | The third approach rejects the framework of one centralised decision maker and allows for the calculation of a dynamic non-regrettable Nash equilibrium for multiple agents with competing objectives . |