Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is likely that birds have selected for sweeter fruits through evolutionary time . |
| 2 | Due to the fact that aerosols have accounted for 60 per cent of CFC usage in the UK , Britain will meet the terms of the Montreal Protocol ( a 50 per cent cut in CFCs ) ten years ahead of schedule . |
| 3 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 4 | Secondly , to give the magazine readability , something with lasting value and relevance that readers wish to keep for reference . |
| 5 | The quiteron is not the first superconducting device that engineers have considered for chips . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , that I may be privileged to tread upon flagstones that worshippers have trod for centuries is a joy . |
| 7 | A Robert Half and Accoun-temps survey found that accountants tended to opt for ‘ something more artistic and creative ’ . |
| 8 | Randy Sherwood , who was known as the Cock of the South , had a handicap of two and was so glamorous with his long , long legs and curly hair that fell perfectly into shape , that girls clamoured to groom for him for nothing . |
| 9 | These pricing formulas will ensure that prices continue to rise for several years : in Northumbria , for example , prices could more than double by the mid-1990s . |
| 10 | But he added that voters had fallen for the ‘ Labour lie ’ that voting Labour would result in a Labour victory in the UK . |
| 11 | I 'm not terribly sure what UCCA stands for , but it 's the form that pupils use to apply for university . |
| 12 | Douglas Kinnaird , of PA Consultants and one of the UK 's top headhunters , makes the point that quite often women do n't realise how hard promotion is to get and that men have worked for it for months , if not years . |
| 13 | If the experience of the National Bus Company , which was privatised in England is taken as a model , we can be sure that privatised subsidiary companies will not index-link future pension rights for their employees in the way that TOPS has done for Scottish Transport Group employees . |
| 14 | If the experience of the National Bus Company , which was privatised in England is taken as a model , we can be sure that privatised subsidiary companies will not index-link future pension rights for their employees in the way that TOPS has done for Scottish Transport Group employees . |
| 15 | That five-year-olds have to go for parties . |
| 16 | Even so , GATT estimates that services have accounted for 17–20 per cent of world trade every year since the mid-1960s : other estimates are that FDI in services has risen even faster . |
| 17 | Indeed , there was still a chance that , terrified they might lose a crucial test of confidence in the chamber that Democrats have controlled for four decades , the president 's managers on Capitol Hill would seek to delay the vote . |