Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] they [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | First their report was published as a booklet , ‘ Hire purchase and Credit Buying ’ , which gave factual information about the various methods and the legislation controlling them , their advantages and disadvantages and the dangers they hold for thoughtless or inexperienced people ; and also a leaflet setting out some of the points to be taken into account when undertaking hire purchase . |
| 2 | They began to drift into amiable silence when they had asked each other questions about their children and the schools , and the plans they had for their holiday in Ireland . |
| 3 | If they 're whingeing because they have n't got quite the times they hoped for , then let them complain into your shell-like ear for a change . |
| 4 | Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ . |
| 5 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |
| 6 | For April 6 is also the day when the over 60s will be eligible for tax relief on the premiums they pay for private medical insurance . |
| 7 | It has been suggested recently by a press commentator that without the CNAA there would be no polytechnics , and undoubtedly if the Council did not exist some similar body would be necessary to give the new institutions the opportunities they need for their full development . |
| 8 | At present the opportunities they provide for cost cutting are more to the fore . |
| 9 | I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly . |
| 10 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 11 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 12 | Now it 's made the people , I have friends in Moscow , who are saying that they are losing a lot of their food supplies , because the West are taking the most throw down prices so that the Yugoslavs and the Romanians can get the goodies they want for us . |
| 13 | Merchants and artisans in the towns normally contributed to the material wealth of the landowner in the form of the rents they paid for their places of domicile and work . |
| 14 | The sites they choose for nesting are the steep-sided inland gorges and cliffs formed by the rivers which rush down to the sea from the great ice-caps . |
| 15 | The latter approach places more emphasis upon the subjective states of individuals , their feelings , the meanings they attach to events and the motives they have for behaving in particular ways . |
| 16 | The Auditing Practices Board wants auditors to stop calling the companies they work for ‘ clients ’ . |
| 17 | In total this has involved the transfer of around 650,000 employees , the majority of whom ( some 90% ) have become shareholders in the companies they work for . |
| 18 | I 'm an employee of the E E F in the same way that is an employee of G M B , in the same way that managers and staff are all employees of the companies they work for , in the same way that your rank and file members are all employees , in the same way that your full time officials are all employees . |
| 19 | They therefore expect the companies they work for to support the providers of those services , in some way , and they want to play their part too , in delivering those services , and I have quite a lot to say about that , later on . |
| 20 | Sporadic outbreaks of lawlessness at British ports — which have already included an attack on a Russian trawler at Peterhead — are likely to intensify as fishermen step up their protests against the imports they blame for prices plummeting at the quayside . |
| 21 | Like climbers and fell-walkers , they frequently attract animosity , oftentimes from locals in the areas they use for their sport . |
| 22 | In such a system , visual and auditory linguistic signifiers are in changing , unstable correspondence with the concepts they stand for . |
| 23 | Their approach is undermined by their mistaken belief that we know what experiential words ( 'pain' , ‘ looks red ’ ) mean by direct acquaintance with the things they stand for . |
| 24 | Time and again the Conservative politicians we approached would talk in private frankly and openly about the problems they foresaw for their party . |
| 25 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 26 | Dependant Some government publications talk about informal carers and the dependants they care for ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | In May 1940 , the RCM general secretary wrote to the Chief Rabbi , pointing out ‘ that our Regional Committees are autonomous and neither they nor the committees under them like interference in the arrangements they make for religious instruction ’ . |
| 28 | It 's the trees they go for , given half a chance . |
| 29 | Reptiles live largely in tropical environments , and the techniques they use for cooling themselves are probably even more important than warming techniques , as we have seen . |
| 30 | Our judges treat the techniques they use for interpreting statutes and measuring precedents — even those no one challenges — not simply as tools handed down by the traditions of their ancient craft but as principles they assume can be justified in some deeper political theory , and when they come to doubt this , for what-ever reason , they construct theories that seem to them better . |