Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate recorded for the South East was under half that recorded for the North of England . |
| 2 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 3 | Please can you look into this and arrange for the job to be finished as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Ooh I 'll carry on watching this and go for a bloody shower ! |
| 5 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |
| 6 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 7 | Linda buried herself in the crowd , exchanging words with this one and that and heading for the bar . |
| 8 | It can be judged from these that plans for the subscription were fairly advanced before her death . |
| 9 | Avoid these and go for the grilled items — possibles are poussins or chicken breast , game such as pheasant , partridge or guinea fowl , or , if you do n't have ethical qualms , lean veal . |
| 10 | In recession , there is little but hope for the future that a party in Government can offer industry . |
| 11 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 12 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 13 | Liam just decided to ignore it all and hope for the best . |
| 14 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 15 | So instead , I refined my masturbation in combination with my hawk-eyed recollection to produce a variety of sexual experience which — ( I now realise ) — more than compensated for the absence of the real thing . |
| 16 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 17 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 18 | By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself . |
| 19 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 20 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 21 | Attaining maximum health involves much more than aiming for a low weight . |
| 22 | It is a programme that holds out more than hope for the underclass . |
| 23 | In 1977 , the Labour Health Secretary David Ennals said : ‘ In the present economic climate the Government can do little more than provide for the increasing number of old people , leaving a small margin for improvements in method of treatment . ’ |
| 24 | PACHE LEAVES THOSE THAT HOPE FOR A HAPPY OUTCOME TO BULL 's TRAVAILS WITH LITTLE TO CHEER |
| 25 | Some of the holidays that cater for the younger element may still be slanted towards pairing people off , but those that cater for the older age groups are not . |
| 26 | As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance . |
| 27 | The computer can check for towns that are missed off signs , those that appear for no good reason or appear only intermittently , to the great confusion of amateur navigators . |
| 28 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |
| 29 | These are normally a lot less than paying for the whole aircraft over the same short period , but after the term of the lease the aircraft must be sold , or re-financed . |
| 30 | Hence , no matter how competitive labour and commodity markets are ( Keynes assumed perfect competition in the former and allowed for a high degree of competition in the latter ) , imbalances between the supply of and demand for labour would not be rectified through spontaneous variations in the real wage rate . |