Example sentences of "for what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORDSTROM 'S ability to cater for what its customers want has helped make the Seattle-based company one of the largest retailers in America . |
| 2 | It also seems that the University of Oxford should break the tradition of centuries and take responsibility for what its members do to one another ’ , and I think that 's called ‘ policing ’ . |
| 3 | I think Tony gave him confidence because Tony looked after the day-to-day worries of how one paid for what one was going to do . |
| 4 | This may lead some to suppose that any attribution or commendation of neutrality assumes that whereas one is morally responsible ( i.e. , accountable ) for what one does , one is not morally responsible for what one does not do , or some similar distinction . |
| 5 | This may lead some to suppose that any attribution or commendation of neutrality assumes that whereas one is morally responsible ( i.e. , accountable ) for what one does , one is not morally responsible for what one does not do , or some similar distinction . |
| 6 | The sentence above would still be true if the Greek words meant ‘ ethics ’ , ‘ myth ’ and ‘ lexis ’ ( the technical term for what one gets from dictionaries or lexicons ) . |
| 7 | Rather , he asks for what one might term a systematic study of the structural constraints of ‘ seeing-as ’ , a study which would illuminate our own subjective life as well as enabling us to say something about the experiences of alien creatures . |
| 8 | His kindness , his honesty , his real care for others will serve me as a model for what one should strive for in life . |
| 9 | The 103/4 really does project the sound out and away from itself ; so much so in fact that it is genuinely hard sometimes to believe that it is actually responsible for what one is hearing . |
| 10 | Great care is needed in interpreting such diagrams , for what one sees depends critically on how the ‘ industry ’ is defined . |
| 11 | Minimally , therefore , it conveys the idea of giving grounds for what one is saying or doing . |
| 12 | Of course this can never be true if the occupation has been entered upon for what one can get out of it — one must never expect virtue to bring a reward . |
| 13 | Just to invoke God 's name for what one chooses to do is no guarantee whatever that the thought , word or action really is God 's will , or is creative and positive as opposed to being destructive and negative . |
| 14 | ‘ A man who puts 'is stock first is acting for what 'e thinks is t'best , ’ he snapped . |
| 15 | Now ye 'll do five years ’ hard for what ye 've done to Luke ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She ca n't vouch for what her husband did . ’ |
| 17 | She relates how she , like many other miners , wives , sells foodstuffs in the street in order to make up for what her husband 's wage does not cover in necessities . |
| 18 | erm And if you look at the second line , and begin three words in , it says ‘ the mistress , ’ the mistress is abbreviated , ‘ answers her man can not work , nor can she spare him till she be paid for what her husband did for the King 's soldiers ’ . |
| 19 | Any professional , in whatever career , gains an intuitive ‘ feel ’ for what their speciality is , how it operates , intuitively knowing when things are wrong . |
| 20 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 21 | One aircraft was sold , Jet Heritage Ltd ( JHL ) of Bournemouth selling their blue JP for what their Eric Hayward called a ‘ fairish price ’ at £69,000 . |
| 22 | Whilst on a tour of South Africa , the rugby team , pictured above , from Loretto School in Scotland met up with staff from Ellerman & Bucknall in Cape Town for what their agenda described as ‘ P&O Day ’ . |
| 23 | Not only are the results of such ‘ on site ’ studies of immense value for what we assume they tell us about the role of our body clock in affecting mental performance , but they also serve two further roles . |
| 24 | We should respect each other for what we do . |
| 25 | God asks us for what we have , not what we do n't have . |
| 26 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 27 | You have to admit he 's superb material for what we have to do . |
| 28 | ‘ The business case for what we are doing is obvious , ’ says Hume , calculating that it costs an average of between £10,000 and £15,000 to recruit and train a replacement for every female member of staff who leaves . |
| 29 | Yet a paradox remains , for what we relate to in actual experience remains our interpretation of a presentational continuum coloured as much by our own senses as by the realities they perceive . |
| 30 | According to James , much of our unhappiness comes about by failing to ask God for what we need : ‘ You do not have , because you do not ask God . |