Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
2 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
3 | The validity of a local search result only lasts for two months , and if there is delay in finding a buyer , the search may be extended under the Local Search Validation Insurance Scheme . |
4 | At the risk of indelicacy , one would suggest that such a condition usually accounts for some five or six days of inactivity . |
5 | The MEC usually meets for 1½–2 hrs and may discuss or note changes to around 50 student cases . |
6 | Some privately employed labour also works for non-profit-making bodies . |
7 | The breeder programme also lives for another year . |
8 | This effect also obtains for total eurobonds , in which case it is likely to proxy the uncertainty and adverse interest rate expectations caused by a falling dollar . |
9 | Fraud essentially occurs for two reasons — inherent criminal intent or the resort to deceit and plunder in a vain attempt to salvage a crumbling empire . |
10 | Absorption by methane certainly accounts for much of this solar heating , but its abundance may be insufficient to produce the whole effect , in which case there may be an as yet unidentified absorber such as a thin suspension of black soot from the photodissociation of methane . |
11 | For the MPhil the portfolio should include one work suitable to form the major item in a concert programme , like a symphony or concerto ; this course normally lasts for two years . |
12 | The 1951 Act also provides for personal as well as corporate liability . |
13 | The Institute also calls for legislative changes that would require companies to hold an agm within six months of the end of the accounting year ( as opposed to nine months ) . |
14 | The committee also calls for stronger links between industry and universities . |
15 | Dissociation of initiation from propagation probably accounts for abortive spikes such as those observed in HeLa cells responding to low doses of histamine . |
16 | Set up in 1984 , Radio RIN currently broadcasts for 20 hours a day and successfully competes with many of the country 's commercial stations . |
17 | The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training . |
18 | The Directive also provides for pregnant workers ' right not to do night work if they have a doctor 's certificate stating that such work would endanger their health . |
19 | Unleaded fuel now accounts for 46.7 per cent of all the petrol consumed in the EC , according to figures released by Eurostat , the Community 's statistics office . |
20 | UK business now accounts for some 30% of the European total . |
21 | Being a teacher today constitutes for many just such an intense set of pressures , stresses , conflicts and uncertainties which often leads people to behave in ways which they do not like , but seem powerless to control . |
22 | The EC 's Habitat Directive specifically calls for internationally-important sites below sea level to be protected . |
23 | This type of photography also calls for other specialists such as home economists to prepare and present the food in front of the camera , room set designers and model makers . |
24 | In urban areas in Britain , over 37 per cent of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot , yet official data continue to stress that walking only accounts for three per cent of all mileage . |
25 | A first-class honours degree from a college of higher education still counts for less in the world than a third-class degree from Oxbridge , and even less than a sporting ‘ blue ’ from the ancient universities . |
26 | Mesh also allows for good ventilation , keeping condensation problems down . |
27 | The organisation also campaigns for tougher penalties for drivers who kill or injure other road users . |
28 | The ‘ peripheral ’ workforce as a whole now accounts for 34 per cent of those in employment — 8.1 million people . |
29 | Private enterprise now accounts for half the economy and is expanding by 25% a year . |
30 | Grant Metropolitan 's Inntrepreneur lease already provides for independent arbitration but rents are still considered excessive by many tenant leaders . |