Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing the microfloppies have in common is the fact that they are all under 10 cm in diameter , making them better suited for briefcase-size computers than the existing 5¼-inch ( 12–5 cm ) and 8-inch ( 20 cm ) diameter floppy discs . |
| 2 | The emphasis was now on the proliferation of high-capacity small-scale computers capable of greater versatility than the older machines , lending themselves to the formation of networks , and many of them deliberately designed for easy access , so that much of the mystique was being dispelled . |
| 3 | One of them reportedly calls for two months severance plus a month for every year worked . |
| 4 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 5 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 6 | Minor or the trace constituents then are present in concentrations less than one part per million they obviously count for less than point one percent of the total salts They are useful as chemical tracers of particular waters . |
| 7 | He says there are lots of tourists and it 's a shame they just come for that . |
| 8 | Lichens that survive cold and desiccation on mountain tops in temperate regions may find tundra winters only marginally more difficult , and tundra summers an unaccustomed blessing ; the adaptations they already possess for harsh temperate environments become pre-adaptations for polar living . |
| 9 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 10 | Although there has been a substantial move away from the building of three or more bedroom houses in recent years , they still accounted for 60 per cent of the total housing stock in 1986 compared with nearly three-quarters a decade earlier ( Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , Table 6.8 , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 12 | Now is , is the fact that they do n't do that , they still go for this rent and interest rate reduction is it because of the experience of the north , they found that the best way in the north was to go for rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then go on , and they were simply taking that experience into the south , but taking it into a different area where it was no longer necessary or appropriate ? |
| 13 | They usually run for four to 12 weeks with one to six sessions a week . |
| 14 | They usually look for large schemes in which to invest . |
| 15 | Once the abscesses burst , they usually discharge for several days before gradually healing up often with an obvious scar which can remain visible for several months . |
| 16 | They also pressed for free elections . |
| 17 | They also pray for each other at a distance and give each other freedom to phone at any hour of the day or night if necessary for personal support . |
| 18 | 4 ) In several places it was felt that the paper provided further evidence of the gap that exists between how we perceive things and how our constituents see them who , for the most part see themselves as the ‘ money raisers ’ — a role they also fulfil for several other organisations as well . |
| 19 | They also called for wider consultations , and a meeting between the US Department of the Interior and the Belau Olbil era Kelulau ( OEK — National Congress , consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate ) to discuss the document was scheduled for September 1990 . |
| 20 | They also called for international aid . |
| 21 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 22 | They both accounted for this outcome in terms of the rigidity of the block contracts they had been recommended to make by the regional health authority . |
| 23 | They now cater for some 22% of the 16+ population and vary in size from 200+ to 1000+ . |
| 24 | They now account for another quarter . |
| 25 | They now account for forty per cent of sales . |
| 26 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 27 | but were they really hoping for twenty four people ? |
| 28 | If they really care for one another … ’ |
| 29 | The modern movement for the legislative recognition of ‘ human rights ’ is in fact a movement for the increased control of legislatures by the judiciary , because the human rights that are claimed are couched in such broad terms , and involve so much balancing of one consideration with another , that they inevitably call for much judicial ‘ interpretation . ’ |
| 30 | More emphasis will be given to social class inequalities , partly because they are more adequately documented and partly because they partially account for ethnic and sex inequalities . |