Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses . |
| 2 | a heating and ventilation system that includes separate heating controls for left and right-hand sides of the cabin , with ducting for back-seat passengers |
| 3 | Enterprises that needed foreign exchange to pay for imports or for other purposes were then to make application to the banks , which were to determine the amount of each enterprise 's ‘ socially verified needs ’ , based on its use of foreign exchange in the previous year and its export performance in that year . |
| 4 | Of the Persil soap powder offers that enabled two passengers to travel for the fare of one and of the utter complexity of offers and restrictions that taxed the ingenuity of many booking clerks and ticket collectors until the Blue ( cheaper ) and White ( all Fridays and occasional other days ) Savers were standardised as BR 's on the whole highly successful marketing tool against coach competition . |
| 5 | It was only the proclamation , in the words of the head of the White armies , Denikin , of ‘ Great Russia , One and Indivisible ’ , as well as later Bolshevik efforts to rectify the situation , that persuaded Muslim nationalists to opt for Moscow . |