Example sentences of "what [vb -s] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What goes for the mother goes for her brother also . |
| 2 | Yet it is sometimes easy to be dazzled by the well-intentioned enthusiasm of a Vicki Hearne , or by false philosophy , into misunderstanding or down-playing the differences , and because it comes naturally to us to say that both we and the dog are angry , or frightened , we conclude that what goes for the human must go for the animal , making certain allowances for sensuous and anatomical variations . |
| 3 | What counts for the UK 's international position is that these innovations have enabled production to take place with new types of labour , new ways of organizing labour and in new areas of the world , but long-wave theories do not consider those changes . |
| 4 | What counts for the sake of higher education is the student 's ability to understand what is learned or what is done , to conceptualise it , to grasp it under different aspects , and to take up critical stances in relation to it . |
| 5 | What matters for the moment is to examine the contention that the Roman catholic church had this special position only because of this matter of fact . |
| 6 | Now , you 've got to get down to the real nitty gritty : how will the stage look , what about the sound system , who presses what buttons for the audio-visuals and when … ? |
| 7 | This condition/consequence relation between know and the infinitive is what calls for the use of to . |
| 8 | The coincidence between the two representations of person ( in passing , both are representations of the same extra-linguistic entity ) is what calls for the use of the bare infinitive . |
| 9 | What accounts for the complexity of the problem of evaluation is not only the economic and social costs involved themselves , but the interests , conflicting or in harmony , of those who pay the costs and those who reap the benefits . |
| 10 | What accounts for the changes ? |
| 11 | What accounts for the differences from town to town , or the similarities between them ? |
| 12 | What accounts for the Tories ' success in winning again against the odds ? |
| 13 | This is probably what accounts for the fact that being featured in one of those articles entitled ‘ Faces to Watch in the New Year ’ , or worse , ‘ Who Will Be Who in the Coming Decade ’ is almost inevitably a ticket to total oblivion . |
| 14 | What accounts for the fact that some workers are satisfied , while others are not ? |
| 15 | What accounts for the difference in adoption of adjustments from place to place and time to time ? |
| 16 | Indeed this is what accounts for the impression given by this type of use that there is a difference between what was perceived and what actually happened . |