Example sentences of "the [det] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crucial social question raised by the zombies , relevant to all societies , capitalist or communist , is ‘ Why should the many work for the few ? ’ |
| 2 | Note that I said ‘ do I want to be ’ rather than ‘ would I like to be ’ as the latter allows for the possibility of failure . |
| 3 | The latter had for the moment deserted him . |
| 4 | The former was escorted to safety in the North Western Hotel ; the latter ran for it into another hotel , The Stork . |
| 5 | As with previous singles the idea is that each covers the other 's work , TC tackling God 's ‘ Meathead ’ , while the latter opt for TC 's ‘ Carfist ’ . |
| 6 | As with previous singles the idea is that each covers the other 's work , TC tackling God 's ‘ Meathead ’ , while the latter opt for TC 's ‘ Carfist ’ . |
| 7 | SONY CLASSICAL — Sony Classical 's mid-price range spreads across three labels — ‘ Masterworks Digital Masters ’ , ‘ Masterworks Portrait ’ and ‘ Maestro ’ ; the latter sells for around £6–7 the others at between £7.50–£8 . |
| 8 | Their attempt to create effective liaison and co-operation with the PLO leadership outside , however , led to unease when the latter called for restraint since the Camp David accords were ‘ under serious scrutiny and assessment ’ . |
| 9 | The former led to his organizing opposition within Anglo-Jewry to what became the Balfour declaration ; the latter accounted for his role in the Liberal opposition to the Anglo-Russian entente . |
| 10 | This must include spending by private individuals and by the state , the latter providing for ‘ collective consumption ’ of health and welfare services . |
| 11 | The majority of housing expenditure ( almost 70 per cent ) made by the URA was committed to home improvement loans and equity participation units ( the latter designed for owner-occupiers on low to moderate incomes ) . |
| 12 | photographic slides — both private and official ( the latter held for current research or teaching purposes ) . |
| 13 | OEMS ( like Wang and Bull ) account for 6%. 70% of models shipped are desktops , 27% desksides and 3% rackmounts — although the latter accounts for 15% of RS/6000 revenues , it says . |
| 14 | The latter has for many years been the preference of the majority of established practitioners : according to a recent Law Society survey , almost 75 per cent of solicitors in practice are equity partners in a firm . |
| 15 | The latter provides for the creation of a special federal service that will deal with the export of works of art . |
| 16 | There have to be big spending cuts and bigger interest rate cuts , the latter compensating for the former . |
| 17 | The former depend for their structure upon the costs of alternative means of supply , whereas the latter , as we have seen , depend upon marginal costs and upon demand elasticities . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that in Continental Europe the integration of mountain and lowland zones must be developed , the latter producing high energy crops for beef animals and the former developed for breeding beef animals for which they are more ecologically suited than milk ( 3 ) . |
| 19 | The former makes for a flexibility in design and allows for local idiosyncrasies , while the latter are slightly quicker and ensure that the craftsman spends less time working in the room which is to receive the decoration . |
| 20 | Presumably none of the former volunteered for the project ! |
| 21 | I did n't want to have to keep carrying her back to the same perch for the rest of her life , although she did occasionally fly to the perch herself , she was so used to it . |
| 22 | The same went for the man who complained in the following terms to a local government committee for ‘ Better Football ’ : ‘ I visited the New Stand lavatories . |
| 23 | The same went for the Brontës ( Charlotte 's late marriage being irrelevant ) , so in a perfect world , we should certainly have been deprived of these characters . |
| 24 | Much the same went for the witnesses . |
| 25 | ‘ Word was sent ’ , not delivered personally , and the same went for the seed money . ’ |
| 26 | The same went for all the climbing and jumping across the back court , over high walls and coal bunkers , that we did in the girls ' gang . |
| 27 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 28 | He just managed to resist adding , ‘ Yours is twenty , and I would have thought the same went for her too . ’ |
| 29 | The same went for a diary , or an address book . |
| 30 | The same went for his classic song Ferry Cross the Mersey after Hillsbrough . |