Example sentences of "they [vb base] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplest way to program the NSA 's computers at Morwenstow and Menwith Hill is to have them watch for specific names , addresses , telephone and telex numbers , as in the case of Kinnock 's call to Turnbull . |
| 2 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 3 | Farmers whose turnover is below the registration limit , currently £36,600 a year , may use the scheme if they qualify for voluntary VAT registration . |
| 4 | Primary elections are very popular with the television industry ; they make for good visuals , and they allow producers to focus ad infinitum on personalities rather than getting bogged down in the boring complexities of issues . |
| 5 | In May 1940 , the RCM general secretary wrote to the Chief Rabbi , pointing out ‘ that our Regional Committees are autonomous and neither they nor the committees under them like interference in the arrangements they make for religious instruction ’ . |
| 6 | The problem with them , however , is that it is not always clear what predictions they make for particular paradigms ( Alba & Hasher , 1983 ; Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Law centres vary in the services that they provide for individual clients . |
| 9 | they provide for inter-disciplinary cooperation and a mixing of skills and expertise ; |
| 10 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 11 | First their report was published as a booklet , ‘ Hire purchase and Credit Buying ’ , which gave factual information about the various methods and the legislation controlling them , their advantages and disadvantages and the dangers they hold for thoughtless or inexperienced people ; and also a leaflet setting out some of the points to be taken into account when undertaking hire purchase . |
| 12 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 13 | African countries would be well advised to refuse many of the pesticides that they receive for free , according to a scientist from the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 14 | ‘ They trawl for promising psykers — ’ |
| 15 | They look for positive evidence that the business is soundly based and a good lending risk . |
| 16 | They look for little giveaway signs like that . |
| 17 | Not all places are equal , and their siting must be considered in relation to other places to which they look for social , economic , religious or administrative relationships . |
| 18 | The effect of this responsiveness is that they are well able to foster innovation , as they look for inventive solutions to emerging problems , but they are in no position to protect those innovations from fluctuating demand . |
| 19 | They stand for modern , improved , and mechanised farming as opposed to indigenous and backward farming , and so on . |
| 20 | They cater for young people and adults . |
| 21 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 22 | But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent . |
| 23 | Er golf clubs well golf clubs will take anything they get for free . |
| 24 | For April 6 is also the day when the over 60s will be eligible for tax relief on the premiums they pay for private medical insurance . |
| 25 | The expected stability and duration of political institutions is an important value in itself , since they allow for long-term planning . |
| 26 | The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available . |
| 27 | ‘ It is extremely serious when someone in a position of trust over women , to whom they go for intimate advice , education and examination , behaves in this way . |
| 28 | I think there 's a more serious thing that we have n't actually touched on which is that many people feel that they are discriminated against when they go for certain posts |
| 29 | Both teachers keep on their desks , beside the National Curriculum ring binders , the registers and all the other tedious impedimenta of a teacher 's working life , a pile of books of poems , which they use for short sections of time throughout the day . |
| 30 | My guess is he 's moved across to some private security firm — the sort they use for unattributable jobs like this . |