Example sentences of "who [vb base] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd really , for a couple of Manchester-based people who 've gone for a progressive soul angle and eschewed any trendy trip . |
| 2 | They are equally suitable for 16 to 19-year olds in school and further education , and adult learners , including returners to the workplace and those who wish to prepare for a major career change . |
| 3 | For there is n't one name from Northern Ireland among a list of 500 people who have applied for a holiday which promises to be ‘ out of this world ’ . |
| 4 | For the ‘ green ’ conscious knitters who have searched for a really pure , natural wool — The Falkland Mill has the solution . |
| 5 | ( Even today , Australian aborigines who have lived for a generation in settlements have still to acquire the habit of taking regular meals . ) |
| 6 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 7 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 8 | First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ? |
| 9 | The ballot will be secret and neither the names of those who have voted for a particular candidate nor the names of those who have abstained from voting shall be disclosed by the scrutineers . |
| 10 | They 're the sort of thing that you 'll find used as backing music for the test card — and when you hear them you begin to have some sympathy for those who refuse to pay for a TV licence . |