Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the TUC 's exclusive concentration on learning from experience in the workplace resembles much of what now passes for experience-based learning in progressive adult education elsewhere . |
| 2 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 3 | The emphasis was now on the proliferation of high-capacity small-scale computers capable of greater versatility than the older machines , lending themselves to the formation of networks , and many of them deliberately designed for easy access , so that much of the mystique was being dispelled . |
| 4 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 5 | Therefore many of us anxiously wait for the latest anti-theft gadget . |
| 6 | He may also wish to take in such oddities as the Bible in shorthand and , if he can find them , the portions published in the dialects : of Cornwall , Cumberland , Dorset , Durham , Devonshire , etc. , most of them privately printed for Prince Lucien Bonaparte , who included the Song of Solomon in twenty-four dialects among his list of nearly eighty publications , his English agent being Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly . |
| 7 | There were people everywhere , hundreds of them , most of them beautifully dressed for the highlight of the midsummer festas . |
| 8 | Most of us only share for financial reasons . |