Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual size of the rise or fall for any given value for t will depend upon the variances of the aggregate and relative demand shocks . |
| 2 | Most members of the elite accepted the contrast or worked for gradual reform . |
| 3 | A further 35% of the students either failed at the final examination , failed at some stage of the course or withdrew for some reason . |
| 4 | By contrast , general purposive browsing describes the academic researcher who indulges in a similar activity of looking over books but with a serious purpose in mind , such as keeping up to date in his field or looking for new ideas . |
| 5 | Laughton and his board have put faith in the players and they must repay that faith or look for another club . |
| 6 | The vessels that sailed in and out of the Minoan harbours , whether bay-hopping round the Cretan coast or bound for far-distant ports , were generally rather small . |
| 7 | Whether you have to make urgent repairs to your car or pay for that holiday you 've been saving for , you can get money out of your account without giving us any notice at all — and you wo n't lost any interest . |
| 8 | This compact volume offers great flexibility and whether used as the basis for a year 's study or recommended for some last minute cramming , the student will derive benefit from it . |
| 9 | I never saw a woman yet you could hold her own with me in talk or love for six minutes together . |
| 10 | This is changing fast , and clients are more and more wanting advice and action that calls for considerable finesse , knowledge , and intelligence . |
| 11 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 12 | a partnership that lasted for sixty years . |
| 13 | ‘ People in Bavaria say it is crazy not to have tall cylindro-conicals in a wholly ultra-modern brewery , ’ says Brombach , ‘ but I think that kind of vessel sets up a convection that makes for dirty beer . ’ |
| 14 | Art & Tech has outlined an extremely ambitious programme that calls for three different mid-engined sports car to be produced . |
| 15 | The head porter or housekeeper usually distributes any mail that arrives for residential staff . |
| 16 | Well , I think a lot of what happens in the academic world is , and my guess is the fundamental reason they get away with it , is that young people wo n't buy much , spending their own money on it , and I think if they were , you could n't serve up a lot of the crap that passes for higher education today . |
| 17 | Perhaps this can be seen as a statement of a general condition that obtains for all workers . |
| 18 | The three special ambassadors sent to James II in 1685 , for example , to congratulate him on his coronation and ask for English help against the Turks , unsuccessfully demanded privileges which were regarded as quite unjustified — to be " conducted " at their audience with the king by a duke rather than as usual a mere earl and for their coaches to be allowed to enter the courtyard of the royal palace . |
| 19 | Then add the sesame paste or peanut butter , remaining soy sauce , chilli oil , remaining salt and chicken stock and simmer for 4 minutes . |
| 20 | Even a Marxist like Gramsci , who spoke of the ‘ consent ’ of the subordinate classes , saw consensus as false consciousness and hoped for revolutionary change . |
| 21 | McCabe , of Millbrook Avenue , Brambles Farm , Middlesbrough , admitted three offences of theft and asked for six offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 22 | Mr Vassiliou , a 61-year-old self-made millionaire , telephoned his opponent to congratulate him and then went on television to concede defeat and appeal for national unity . |
| 23 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |
| 24 | Various parties and groups were established 1989 and 1990 in Nepal itself to oppose the programme and to press for democratic reforms . |
| 25 | He also appealed to all Beninois to return to work to lay the basis for economic revival , while the transitional government implemented an economic structural adjustment programme and negotiated for external financial resources . |
| 26 | So including current and lagged total money growth in the output equation and testing the null hypothesis that the coefficients on these variables are all zero is exactly equivalent to including current and lagged predictable components of money growth in the output equation and testing for zero coefficients on these variables . |
| 27 | In 1903 a loosely structured organization , the Union of Liberation , was formed to unite all sections of opposition and to press for constitutional democracy based on universal , equal , secret and direct franchise . |
| 28 | You told her you had n't been able to get her out of your mind and begged for another chance . |
| 29 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 30 | Lot number seventy one Lot number seventy one seventy one there 's the stele showing there 's the carving showing there for a hundred and fifty pounds , at one fifty , one sixty , one seventy , at one hundred and seventy pounds , at one eighty offered , one ninety , two hundred now two hundred is bid and selling for two hundred , you all done ? |