Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen for her own part will have to face up to the fact that , however perfect her public role , she has dismally failed in private to give her children the guidance they needed for stable marriages . |
| 2 | The legal work they do for other clients gives them this experience . |
| 3 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 4 | The towering striker put United 2–0 ahead in the 68th minute of a match they dominated for most of the time . |
| 5 | My guess is he 's moved across to some private security firm — the sort they use for unattributable jobs like this . |
| 6 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 7 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 8 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 9 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 10 | The question is whether the ‘ power ’ referred to was the power to write poetry ; for though the Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) are of high quality they mark for most people the end of Wordsworth 's poetic life . |
| 11 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 12 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 13 | Their second objective is to qualify their own champion which they aim to do with the black pup they plan for late 1993 . |
| 14 | Council , although , the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse ! |
| 15 | In addition they called for lower taxes , free health care , cheaper housing loans and increased spending on state-owned industries . |
| 16 | It was a memorable tour by the Pakistanis and the bottom line must be the magnificent spectacle of cricket they provided for all who watched them . |
| 17 | The word they use for this ( berani ) is Malay but , more commonly , they simply negate the word fearful . |
| 18 | Pray that leaders would make strong relationships with their team , and that by the love they have for one another and the joy experienced , others would come to know God . |
| 19 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 20 | When they left the restaurant they stood for some moments surveying the view of Prague , its many spires , red-roofed buildings , with a green dome here , the Vltava river with some of its bridges there , the Charles Bridge in particular Then , ‘ Shall we walk the rest of the way down ? ’ |
| 21 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 22 | From the resumption of collective bargaining in 1976 until 1986 , there were over 30 national strikes , but almost without exception they lasted for 24 hours or less , often for only 4 hours . |
| 23 | We will increase the time they have for each patient by reversing the financial pressures to take on too many patients . |
| 24 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 25 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 26 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 27 | In the latter group there had often been erosion of their first language and their command of English was confined to the language they needed for everyday use . |
| 28 | Scientists and science educators might do well to worry about the attractiveness of computers and the sense of power they unlock for brilliant young people today . |