Example sentences of "[that] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's difficult to describe in detail without spoiling the effect for future viewers , something that goes for the whole film . |
| 2 | She needed some more wood for her carving if she was to complete all the ‘ little comforters ’ , as she called them , during her three-week holiday away from the travel agents where she worked , small , smooth-shaped pieces of wood , lovingly carved and polished by herself to fit easily into the palm and which , much to her surprise and delight , were eagerly accepted by the large rehabilitation hospital in the next town that cared for the blind and mentally sick . |
| 3 | From here , a futher interpretation of the Miller 's Tale may be proposed which is similar in form to that of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin recalled just above , although far less severe , morally , than either that proposed for the French fabliau or that of the allegorizers . |
| 4 | It was concluded that low cost tools have limitations but can provide useful experience to system builders that allows for the critical selection of more advanced software . |
| 5 | Concern was also expressed about smoke from the barbecue interfering with other sporting fixtures , and it was agreed that plans for the proposed verandah should be viewed by the parish council before going to the district . |
| 6 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 7 | Opinion polls in June 1991 suggested that support for the National Party had fallen to 35 per cent , while that for the Labour Party had risen to 42 per cent . |
| 8 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 9 | In London she settled in Highgate and ventured out from there on the variation of the Grand Tour that beckoned for the young in Europe in the mid 1960s : Paris , Rome , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Tunisia , and across north Africa . |
| 10 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 11 | As the implications of another disastrous election defeat begin to be analysed , it is clear that calls for the Labour Party to embrace PR as a way of breaking the Tory stranglehold are gaining in strength . |
| 12 | They claimed that mid-week polls showing a large Labour lead had shocked some floating voters into the realisation that opting for the Liberal Democrats would let Mr Kinnock in by the back door . |
| 13 | It may be modern unwillingness to accept that there were activities in ancient societies which we do not understand that accounts for the embarrassing silence of archaeology on the Andean lines and its stubborn resistance to a proper treatment of the ley theory in Britain . |
| 14 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 15 | It 's reported that the price of CD players will shortly tumble as Matsushita market a machine that retails for the low price of £280 — about half the price of the company 's launch model . |
| 16 | There is also much criticism of the FC because of the high degree of autonomy that it enjoys and its legally-enforceable powers that allow for the compulsory purchase of land . |
| 17 | In my opinion the Italian Federation should even now refund substantial sums of money to all the countries that attended for the dreadful food and facilities . |
| 18 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 19 | The national data computed for Japan ( 1979–1980 ) and that combined for the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) and Hungary ( 1976–80 ) show minimum risks of a still birth at the second birth order for women aged 25–44 years . |
| 20 | Anyone who indulged in it for its own sake was an out-and-out sinner — and that went for the resulting offspring , too . ’ |
| 21 | Money-Go-Round : One European parliament that speaks for the elderly |
| 22 | Although America 's electronics industries are keen for the government to renew the parts of this agreement that call for the Japanese to buy more American chips , their ardour for price-fixing has cooled . |
| 23 | it to be rewritten we usually have one event after Christmas that pays for the extra gas and heating that we use . |
| 24 | This distinction is further elaborated by Beetham ( Chapter 10 ) , who discusses the important consequences that follow for the internal organization of bureaucratic hierarchies . |
| 25 | It was Daedalian blood that accounted for the native handiness and wit and industry of the people of Ninfania , the father had always thought . |
| 26 | I would maintain that claims for the cognitive consequences of literacy must take account of this challenge . |
| 27 | Meaning is not an issue that arises for the Russian Formalists , and it is here that they differ most fundamentally from the American New Critics with whom they otherwise have so many similarities . |