Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb infin] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoppers save for rainy day |
| 2 | Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach . |
| 3 | What kinds of support do relatives provide for each other ? |
| 4 | Evidently wise to this fact , vivisectionists refused the Natural Concern team access to all their experiments save for some brain operations on rats . |
| 5 | In these and other models , households save for future consumption ( by accumulating money balances ) and in some cases firms can accumulate inventories for future sales . |
| 6 | For example , the proposed EC limits on car exhaust emissions will require more expensive car engines or catalytic converters , so internalizing the cost of air pollution by making motorists pay for preventive action . |
| 7 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 8 | He won his first four races in California but after a defeat was off to Nickerson again : do horses qualify for Frequent Flyer Privileges ? |
| 9 | Most animals today do seem to have bodies that accord well with the functions they have to carry out to survive : flyers are aerodynamically efficient , active swimmers have suitable streamlining , herbivorous mammals have teeth appropriate for grinding plant food , and so on . |