Example sentences of "[vb base] for [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 2 | The market return minus the risk-free return is the risk premium that investors expect for investing in the market portfolio . |
| 3 | More simply , a crack on the head is what you get for acting in a perfectly natural manner . |
| 4 | Are we presuming that those students will not be expected to pay anything in the charge that they pay for staying in the halls of residence ? |
| 5 | Unless you are certain that you will finish the job in 24 hours , go for hiring by the week . |
| 6 | It works with newly-enhanced versions of the company 's range of gateways , which convert proprietary electronic mail messages into the X400 format for routing by the OpenServer 400 . |
| 7 | He writes : ‘ among [ the Dinka ] I had that experience of daily conversation which enables one to discriminate , as we take for granted in the language into which we were born , between what people mean and what they say . |
| 8 | When the company I work for went through a rough patch , there were no pay rises for two years . |
| 9 | The instruments that would be needed for communicating echo pictures are no more sophisticated than the instruments that both bats and dolphins already have for echolocating in the first place . |
| 10 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 11 | We may find something wrong with her , items we need for overwintering in the ice . |
| 12 | I blame myself you see for going in the hospital . |