Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb base] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what you get for flying antiques , ’ he said unsympathetically . |
| 2 | Whatever direction the hair moves , the shape remains strong and striking — just what you need for blustery weather ! |
| 3 | And that 's what we use for electronic circuits . |
| 4 | What we know for sure is is really outlined here . |
| 5 | Even an uncertainty is tangible : " What we know for certain is that this point is uncertain . " |
| 6 | Right let's see what we have for Good Friday . |
| 7 | We were thrilled by her generous gesture in this the Guild 's Centenary Year , not least because the story she tells so well shows that much of what we do for Christian Aid is in the best Guild tradition . |
| 8 | The shareholders could also be passive because the manager is doing precisely what they require for high returns on that money . |
| 9 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 10 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |