Example sentences of "what [vb -s] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What goes for one player should also go for the other . |
| 2 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 3 | What matters for this purpose is that if it escapes it is likely to do mischief and this is the meaning to be given to ‘ dangerous thing ’ in this context . |
| 4 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 5 | Dead trees turn out to be commonplace — hundreds of them standing knee deep in the wide , slow meanders of the Murray River or more loosely scattered in a macabre parkland where what passes for good grazing has been toasted a mauvy brown by the long summer sun . |
| 6 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 7 | But the general proposition that human affairs must be understood from within does not require the assumption that individuals make history , except perhaps as a convenient device for identifying what calls for deeper understanding . |
| 8 | They represent the personal touch which takes the edge off what remains for most farm workers the harsh realities of their poor pay and dependent status . |
| 9 | So when one producer or studio is responsible for a string of hits , it 's only necessary to find out what distinguishes its operation from that of other , less successful , operations , or what has changed when the same producer or studio hit a bum run , to discover what makes for successful film production . |
| 10 | As you will see from my strategies — all of which , let me repeat , are derived not from my own beliefs but from what teachers say they actually do — what works for one person may seem quite bizarre to another , and serve only to increase the distress of a third . |
| 11 | What works for one person may not suit another . |