Example sentences of "they [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They account for 41 per cent of the entire labour force , but 54 per cent of the temporary labour force . |
| 2 | Red dwarfs are faint , cool and small , and they account for 70 per cent of the Galaxy 's stars . |
| 3 | They are also disproportionately represented amongst a particular category of temporary workers , namely those working on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis , where they make up 64 per cent of the total , and amongst agency workers , where they account for 63 per cent of the total . |
| 4 | The SMMT estimates that they account for 40 per cent of all kits sold in the UK . |
| 5 | They account for 75.4 per cent to which may be added , proportionately , 10 per cent from those ‘ not known ’ . |
| 6 | In areas such as Europe and eastern Northern America , they account for 90 per cent of total sulphur dioxide emissions . |
| 7 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 10 | He travelled widely in those days , often accompanied by his wife , and they lived for two years in the United States where he was responsible for ICI 's affairs in North and South America . |
| 11 | ‘ They lived for each other , they leaned on each other , they helped each other , they worked for each other . |
| 12 | In 1851 George Sumner was appointed rector of Old Alresford , Hampshire , where they lived for thirty-four years , and where their son , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) [ q.v. ] , artist and archaeologist , was born . |
| 13 | Farmers whose turnover is below the registration limit , currently £36,600 a year , may use the scheme if they qualify for voluntary VAT registration . |
| 14 | In the main , staff have to complete a qualifying period of service ( often two or three years ) before they qualify for this . |
| 15 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 16 | Any existing members who believe they qualify for this new rating category from the 1st May next should contact the Autocover staff at Frank Glennon Limited who will arrange for their premiums to be adjusted from their next renewal date . |
| 17 | Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children . |
| 18 | Jessica swung , clinging hard to Rory , as they made for another barn . |
| 19 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 20 | They asked for all the recommendations for a carer , and home support to be implemented . |
| 21 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 22 | They asked for two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 23 | This time , they asked for 1 and 3 quarter million and Spurs offered 350 thousand , but the final figure was much nearer Swindon 's valuation . |
| 24 | They ate up all the knives and forks and then they asked for more . |
| 25 | And so they asked for English counsel and ‘ furtherance ’ . |
| 26 | They compensate for this by gaining water from their food both through the workings of their powerful kidneys , which extract much of the water from the urine , and by the condensation of water during breathing . |
| 27 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 28 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 29 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 30 | If they fought for one side or the other , Standard Oil would be fighting Standard Oil . |