Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BROOD parasites and their hosts are thought to engage in a coevolutionary arms race in which parasitism selects for adaptive defences by the host ( such as egg rejection ) , which in turn select for counter-adaptations by the parasite ( such as egg mimicry ) . |
| 2 | This technique shows the entities most likely to be mentioned by the reader and , hence , indicates which entities predominate for various reasons . |
| 3 | The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself . |
| 4 | However , the apparent success of retail development and the much higher land prices and rents which sites developed for out-of-town retail purposes command , has led to continuing pressure on industrial sites in general , including sites in and around North Shields . |
| 5 | He argues that classes develop in market economies in which individuals compete for economic gain . |
| 6 | The same was true of Street Scene , which Vidor directed for Goldwyn-United Artists in 1931 . |
| 7 | Another important criticism , associated especially with Bernard Williams , is that utilitarianism ignores the real significance which life has for mature human beings . |
| 8 | In return , the US negotiators agreed to Japanese demands for action on its spiralling budget deficit , which Japan blamed for excessive US consumer demand and for an excessively strong US dollar . |
| 9 | Thirdly , these studies have emphasised the importance which jobs held for young women — as a source of status and independence both outside and within the family . |
| 10 | Mr Ishihara is no more than an entertaining distraction in Japanese politics : a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , but one with no power base and whose views count for little . |
| 11 | SGML is supposed to be able to do for document-based information what SQL did for proprietary databases . |
| 12 | Even when only historic costs are being recognized there are still subjective judgements which have to be made to produce balance sheets and income statements : how much depreciation to charge ; how to calculate the closing stock figure ; what provision to make for doubtful debts , etc . |
| 13 | The historians of a general history , on the other hand , reject interpretation as such in favour of making the evidence of documents intelligible by posing questions to them , constituting through such questions what counts as the series of historical events , its elements , its limits , and its relation to other series , or what rules operated for particular discursive practices . |
| 14 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 15 | That 's what Surrey done for English batting — 36.36% . ’ |
| 16 | That 's what Surrey done for English cricket . ’ |
| 17 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service what opportunities exist for civil servants based in Great Britain to gain experience in duties relating to Northern Ireland as part of staff development programmes . |
| 18 | We know what CAMRA did for real ale and there is even a chance — is n't there ? — that Greenpeace will save us from ourselves . |
| 19 | Look what loyalty did for Sabine ! |