Example sentences of "comes [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a person who comes in for two hours every morning , but … but she does just the very rough work . |
| 2 | I see arts students ' timetables , an English student comes in for two hours a week , and he 's home for the rest of the time . |
| 3 | Farming comes in for much criticism , largely it appears because farmers have responded to the need to make a livelihood from the land by producing more primary commodities using industrial techniques . |
| 4 | The legacy of Descartes comes in for further scrutiny in Joanna Hodge 's paper , which examines the concept of ‘ the subject ’ which philosophy has inherited from Descartes . |
| 5 | Margaret 's Anita is a trained patisserie chef , who comes in for three days a week to delight people with her delicious home-baked brown bread and scrumptious deserts . |
| 6 | Fulk , however , comes in for stern criticism . |
| 7 | Once more poor old Skerne Park comes in for more grief . |
| 8 | The disloyal mutterings about his leadership will grow , as will the possibility of a token candidate standing against him when his party position comes up for formal renewal in November . |
| 9 | Bob Dylan comes out for ultra-right Pat Buchanan |
| 10 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 11 | Standardization comes about for functional reasons , and its effect is to make a language serviceable for communicating decontextualized information-bearing messages over long distances and periods of time . |