Example sentences of "[vb base] for [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 2 | Other costs seem equally hard to cut ( staff costs account for less than a third of the total ) . |
| 3 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 4 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 5 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 6 | For schemes where the benefit is X months benefit for each and every claim the payments should be suspended during periods when the claimant is in temporary employment . |
| 7 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |
| 8 | The identities of chemical units that normally exist for less than a microsecond are important clues to how reactions take place . |
| 9 | In semelparous forms , which breed only once , there is often a sudden loss of function after reproduction ; adult mayflies live for less than a week , and male Pacific salmon show catastrophic senescence after their single breeding attempt . |
| 10 | Before you settle for less than the genuine article , compare the price . |
| 11 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 12 | Call your doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 13 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 14 | Call you doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that this will mean compulsory Sunday work for little or no premium payment . |