Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are also disproportionately represented amongst a particular category of temporary workers , namely those working on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis , where they make up 64 per cent of the total , and amongst agency workers , where they account for 63 per cent of the total . |
| 2 | In a report to a plenary meeting of Tsektran in June , he said that trains should stop acting like droshkys , carrying people and goods where they wished for little or no pay . |
| 3 | In 1851 George Sumner was appointed rector of Old Alresford , Hampshire , where they lived for thirty-four years , and where their son , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) [ q.v. ] , artist and archaeologist , was born . |
| 4 | They have a cult status which remains something of an enigma — particularly in the North-west where they stand for all that is dreary and depressing . |
| 5 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 6 | George nodded and motioned her to silence again ; although they waited for another quarter of an hour , it was a vain vigil ! |
| 7 | Subjective assessments of pain and difficulty during exercise were significantly less for patients in the experimental group on both test dates than for the control group , although they improved for both groups . |
| 8 | Although they struggled for long periods against the same Turkey side England beat 4-0 last month , Graham Taylor — watching from the stands — said : ‘ Of the three results possible , this was the worst one . |
| 9 | The group did not have another discussion about wages for housework as such , although they did for some months follow Ruth 's prepared reading list — an introductory series of Marxist texts , and the issue of wages for housework emerged again through that , in a theoretical discussion . |
| 10 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 11 | When the money supply is increased , people find themselves holding more than they need for current transactions and so attempt to spend the excess . |
| 12 | The answer is simple ; there need be no judge and no moral dilemma if parents and doctors accept that they have no more right to end the life of a handicapped child than they do for any child which enters this world . |
| 13 | African countries would be well advised to refuse many of the pesticides that they receive for free , according to a scientist from the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 14 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 15 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 16 | The SMMT estimates that they account for 40 per cent of all kits sold in the UK . |
| 17 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 18 | that that can be seen from er the bungalow almost directly opposite , and er it 's almost a traditional requirement that they ask for steep pitches . |
| 19 | Hay 's booksellers justifiably boast that they cater for all tastes . |
| 20 | He says that they sample for dozens of chemicals — the Severn supplies drinking water so they have to be accurate . |
| 21 | The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available . |
| 22 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 23 | The average age of spectators at Frankfurt Galaxy matches was 24 and the NFL obviously believes that young people here will show the same enthusiasm for American sport that they do for fast food , clothes and records . |
| 24 | Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) . |
| 25 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 26 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 27 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 28 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 29 | Law centres vary in the services that they provide for individual clients . |
| 30 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |