Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Good thinking , Princess , ’ he said , with an easy charm that made up for any lack of etiquette .
2 Everyone , it seemed , was anxious to contribute , and ‘ Oh , the rubbish that turns up for the Dolls ' House . ’
3 There are the inevitable distilleries : an industry that goes on for ever .
4 But what 's the point of holding a meeting that goes on for more than twelve hours ?
5 No , I could tell you a really boring joke that goes on for ages .
6 The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools .
7 The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools .
8 But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain .
9 I went into the job feeling confident enough , but the wind that got up for our first day soon knocked that out of me .
10 There is a great need for music and art that cries out for change in this sad , sick society .
11 Do you think that there is even a sort of ‘ them and us ’ attitude , a feeling that the arts world is an ever open maw that cries out for endless sums of money and that the proper business of government is to resist ?
12 Two points about Dunleavy 's framework can usefully be raised : ( a ) He tends to assume that what applies in the case of high-rise flats or town-centre redevelopment applies in other areas of policy-making ; ( b ) He places a heavy emphasis on the nationalizing of urban policy change , arguing ( 1980a , p. 98 ) that within ‘ broad limits the decentralised authorities implementing policies have moved in step with a precision that cries out for explanation ’ .
13 Rather than emulate the original , Kaiser and his cronies turn David 's innocent little rebellious rocker into a full blown free-form jazz improvisation piece that chugs along for over 12 minutes .
14 Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back …
15 Looking back on the twenty-five years of fostering children , is there any one memory that stands out for you ?
16 An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation .
17 But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers .
18 Erm but the more general training er sort of across the board that came up for staff in general was certain things that are , are bound to happen for example on course training will happen .
19 Again the three things that came out for me yesterday were the structured thought patterns obviously the arousal and the need for audience contact .
20 THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public .
21 Evidently , one tends to forget the worst episodes over time , and remembers only those items that stand out for some reason ’ .
22 Even the expressions of support and sympathy that flooded in for Rudolf Hess from all around the world were ruthlessly destroyed by the British censors .
23 But ballroom dancing is an activity that screams out for a band .
24 Yet the spirit of excitement which came through each TV showing of the battles between happi-coated teams was an inspiration that called out for adoption .
25 ‘ Most people consolidate their information periodically and report it on a monthly basis : they tend to have huge consolidation exercises that go on for days .
26 And Deviation 's ‘ Hammond Song ’ reminds one of the music they have in those appalling films about surfing that go on for ever , except with a dance beat .
27 But within this complete chronology we can discern some processes and states of affairs that are comparatively brief , others that last for an intermediate length of time , and some that go on for centuries or even millennia .
28 If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour —
29 With each of is lost a distinctive system of concepts , a system for encoding and encapsulating experience , and a literature of songs and stories that probably contain elements that go back for thousands of years .
30 be quite a bit in that account because there was only one six that went through for this insurance and there has n't been a lot more going through this month .
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