Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , people lose their virginity , experiment with drink or drugs , run up debts , consider divorce and even vote for political parties they swore they would never support . |
| 2 | Under the legislation , manufacturers can claim a credit of 25 per cent of the market value for each computer they give away to schools . |
| 3 | But from June 1 they will pay £5 and an additional 10p for each trip they make . |
| 4 | At the same time , however , increased taxes on income mean that people derive less income for each hour they work and they may therefore decide to prefer leisure to work , i.e. work less — the substitution effect . |
| 5 | It costs more than a normal prescription , two or three times as much , one charge for each hormone they contain , yet means the difference between health or serious illness and peace of mind for you and your partner . |
| 6 | Medicare — the American programme for the old — pays hospitals for each patient they treat . |
| 7 | The latest figures show that the Lords cost tax payers £4 million in the year from April 1990 to 1991 , or almost £30,000 for each day they sat . |
| 8 | Condition 2 stated that a charge of £5 plus V.A.T. per transparency was payable for each day they were late being returned . |
| 9 | Institutions pay either PCAS or UCCA for each student they recruit through their handbooks , which have just gone to press . |
| 10 | For each accomplishment they rewarded her : they put the jack-plug on the end of her forefinger into a socket on a box they wheeled to her bedside and when her eyes closed , the reward was a vision of her scintillating meanings . |
| 11 | The TEC pays the society a fixed amount per trainee for each week they work , and participating employees contribute around £5 per trainee per day to the society towards administrative costs . |
| 12 | To find out if gastrointestinal symptoms ( and signs when present ) can accurately predict the need for specific investigations they were related to the endoscopic and colonic findings . |
| 13 | However , for normal purposes they are perfectly adequate and offer the best solution for the home or small business user who can not afford the more professional systems . |
| 14 | For that sum they could parade up and down the grounds at any time of day or sit on the grassy banks at will . ’ |
| 15 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 16 | For that violation they can and should be made to pay . ’ |
| 17 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 18 | No doubt they mean well where the arts are concerned , he wrote , but for that reason they are the biggest menace . |
| 19 | No doubt they think they have the interests of the artist at heart , he wrote , but for that reason they must be avoided like the plague . |
| 20 | For that reason they held a conference last month with delegates from the local authorities , and building and insurance worlds . |
| 21 | For that reason they are willing to value bank shares in America at about twice their book value . |
| 22 | For that reason they are given in detail in Appendix 6 , The Effect of Synonym Storage Techniques on Search Times . |
| 23 | Gradually I get out of the unscientific habit of trying to read other people 's faces , and come to see the bodies from which personality has faded as the automata which for scientific explanation they already are . |
| 24 | Then for another moment they looked at each other . |
| 25 | Well for English literature they set you so many books to study , that was one of them . |
| 26 | For 12 weeks they were the most famous ‘ ordinary ’ people in Britain , when the BBC decided to popularise the fly-on-the-wall documentary by discreetly invading the lives of the Wilkins and attendant boy/girlfriends and a key dustman from mum Margaret 's past . |
| 27 | Senses rioted , coherent thought fled , and for mindless seconds they were oblivious to the world about them . |
| 28 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 29 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 30 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |