Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is changing fast , and clients are more and more wanting advice and action that calls for considerable finesse , knowledge , and intelligence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | a partnership that lasted for sixty years . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Art & Tech has outlined an extremely ambitious programme that calls for three different mid-engined sports car to be produced . |
| 6 | The head porter or housekeeper usually distributes any mail that arrives for residential staff . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps this can be seen as a statement of a general condition that obtains for all workers . |
| 9 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 10 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 11 | This is not an income that allows for any luxuries . |
| 12 | Now comes the part that calls for real concentration and a steady hand — applying the glue or adhesive . |
| 13 | ‘ Be your own lawyer and you 'll have a fool for a client ’ , is an adage that calls for another : ‘ Employ a lawyer and he 'll have a pauper for a client ’ — Sunday Times . |
| 14 | The sixteenth-century started with a power struggle in Europe between the Holy Roman Empire and France , a battle that continued for many decades , with the conflict chiefly centring around Milan . |
| 15 | A plan that works for that particular family is achieved through a joint decision-making process . |
| 16 | Speaking at a meeting attended by some 400 people in the local village hall that continued for two and a half hours local primary teacher Donal O'Connor said children should not be used in future protests . |
| 17 | Hotels fall into many categories , ranging from boarding houses , guest houses , country inns , small hotels with between 25 to 50 bedrooms , medium-sized hotels with up to 200 bedrooms , large hotels with several hundred bedrooms , and special transient hotels such as motels , motorway hotels , post-houses , airport hotels and hotels in large cities whose business consists mainly of guests in transit that stay for one or two nights only . |
| 18 | The first was Daniel Patrick Moynihan 's year-long effort to cut the payroll tax that pays for social security ( old-age pensions ) . |
| 19 | Brick-making was an early industrial entrant into the Chiltern Hills , where there is no natural building stone except flint , and it was in the fifteenth century that brick works first appeared at Nettlebed , to establish a local business that lasted for five hundred years . |
| 20 | However , some tutors seem to feel that they are unable to accept these modifications despite the syllabus remaining virtually unchanged , though more comprehensive , as befits the education and examination standards of a ‘ professional ’ body that hopes for national recognition . |
| 21 | The Campaign for Mentally Handicapped is another important body that works for better provision and understanding . |
| 22 | By establishing a paradigm for psychological investigation that lasted for some forty years , behaviourists seriously delayed the understanding of human cognition . |
| 23 | Ta'kwakomenae ( will , etc. ) is that crucial aspect of ta'kwaru that allows for responsible or irresponsible behaviour . |
| 24 | Sizzling occasion that calls for cool drinks and suntan lotion |
| 25 | The number of boundaries of competence that exist for any given social entity may vary : the members of an isolated New Guinea society , all of whom perform virtually identical tasks according to age and sex , will have fewer than the members of a more complex society with a greater division of labour . |
| 26 | Making OPP film — coextruded oriented polypropylene — is a precise art that calls for careful handling . |
| 27 | ‘ Expressions ’ is the only salon in the area that caters for Afro-Caribbean and European hair and employs top cutters and colourists in each field . |
| 28 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 29 | It 's an exciting game that calls for great skill . |
| 30 | Herpex simplex virus infection causing a mucocutaneous ulcer that persists for more than 1 month , or bronchitis , pneumonitis , or oesophagitis for any duration in a patient > 1 month of age . |