Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older people who have fewer than eight main meals each week , or who go for long periods of the day without food , are considered to be especially at risk . |
| 2 | The second ace is the country 's near-monopoly of traditional traffic-free villages — or what pass for traffic-free villages in these days of electric taxis and buses . |
| 3 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 4 | They are people striving for purpose and meaning in circumstances that are usually much less than ideal and which call for constant adjustment , adaptation and redefinition . |
| 5 | And you wait for other people an that and and you do n't leave that 's all I wo n't do that again , . |
| 6 | Playing up to it , he gives an autograph and we board for free . |
| 7 | They 're ambitious and they strive for upward social mobility . |
| 8 | This contrast is used to explain why the Japanese are said to feel less class conscious than Westerners because vertical loyalties within companies , say , are more important than horizontal relations with other people who occupy the same position but who work for different companies . |
| 9 | It seems we got a irregularity here — Mr Stein knows he goin' to be workin' here long-term but he apply for short-term only . ’ |