Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You keep this perch warm for a while , I 'm doing a walkabout . ’ |
| 2 | Some people change for the better . |
| 3 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 4 | I mean the trouble with group selectionistic thinking is you , you completely discount the costs that some people pay for the benefits of others and so oh well , you know everybody benefits from mothers erm having children and sacrificing themselves to their offspring . |
| 5 | Some people work for a firm that goes bankrupt ; some people invest early in Rank Xerox . |
| 6 | From April 1991 larger practices will be able to choose to take control of some NHS funds to finance a range of local services for their own patients — including certain hospital treatments , and the cost to the NHS prescriptions and some staff needed for the practice . |
| 7 | Or for guessing what this pair do for a living . |
| 8 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 9 | They might have exchanged , again , the people of their two schools , but to Kate these people seemed for the moment irrelevant . |
| 10 | With all these people working for the success of the Festival , the rest is up to you ! |
| 11 | Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size . |
| 12 | Sandys ’ Reformation did exactly the opposite : his policies reinforced British military capabilities for nuclear war , while cutting the ships , aircraft and above all infantry needed for the type of fighting in which military forces have been constantly engaged in the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 13 | We had always known that there were many people looking for a historic building to restore but had not realized the extent , which was very encouraging . |
| 14 | If such an attractive new influence could be spread abroad in the world , where so many people long for a religion which has that ring of truth , the detection of which is a priceless human ability acquired down through the ages and not to be denied , there would be a growing number of adherents rallying to it . |
| 15 | Usually many more people apply for a job than can be successful . |
| 16 | ‘ There are now over 300 less people working for the group , but of those , there were only 20 redundancies , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The other problem we 've got , and I will call it a problem , is the relationship to beat with , with the sections and elections to regional councils , in the union , where there 's not enough people or just barely enough people to stand for a section and they 're automatically elected . |
| 18 | As goals at Arsenal became fewer , most people plumped for the most obvious explanation ; Nicholas was a victim of the magical trinity of bevvy , birds and big-headedness . |
| 19 | Such a financial obstacle would send most people looking for an easier option , but Dreamflight has been helped enormously in recent years by Spar supermarkets who have raised £350,000 . |
| 20 | Most people go for the stars or the Tarot . |
| 21 | Prickly heat is the term most people use for a medical condition called polymorphic light eruption ( PMLE ) . |
| 22 | When they reach retirement age , most people qualify for the basic pension , which is normally uprated once a year to keep in line with price rises . |
| 23 | Prices range from 65 pounds to 665 pound the better the suit the higher the price , most people opt for a semi-dry suit it is made out of neoprene a rubbery material which lets the water in but does n't let it out again your body heat warms the water up . |
| 24 | Most people opt for the furry friendliness of the cat family . |
| 25 | It is a fact that most people bitten for the first time by their own dog are bitten in the bedroom . |
| 26 | An area of great diversity , grandeur and fun , the USA 's West Coast has enough to keep most people enthralled for a lifetime . |
| 27 | Some people do n't stop when she asks them for money , but most people think for a bit and then dig in their pockets and give her summat . |