Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 2 | Siebe Plc paid £25m all told for two continental controls companies , Eberle GmbH , of Nuremberg , Germany , with annual turnover of £56m , and Schmidt Amaturen GmbH , Villach , Austria which is doing £12m a year . |
| 3 | The data relate to data previously collected for the Scottish hospital sector by one of the authors . |
| 4 | The sums granted for this last purpose in 1993–94 will not be as closely earmarked as was the £15m specifically designated for books in 1991–92 and 1992–93 . |
| 5 | How much more appealing , intriguing , and clear of hopeful mysticism , is the Burtons ' account of the doings of honey bees , the best known of the social insects and a sub-species frequently favoured for human comparison : |
| 6 | An ice-screw at 5m then go for the top , taking care not to knock out any ice onto those waiting below . |
| 7 | Annesley yard received and despatched coal trains from the local pits which were taken south at speeds of up to 50 m.p.h. eventually destined for the Western Region . |
| 8 | These people rarely volunteer for investigation in controlled EEG studies . |
| 9 | People rarely asked for your invitation card . |
| 10 | ‘ These people deliberately target places where people only go for a bit of entertainment . |
| 11 | And then there 's other people that can do it , but , you know , people only come for like every couple |
| 12 | If you go to the parks in Peking early in the morning , you will see hundreds of people gently exercising for health and longer life . |
| 13 | We , we felt at the end of the seventies that there was no question that the eighties was going to be a decade of increasing food shortages , and widespread famine , that is , people literally dying for want of food . |
| 14 | I know that there will be people just waiting for me to be injured and say ‘ I told you so ’ but I am confident that , this time , it 's not going to happen . ’ |
| 15 | People normally commute for one of two reasons : to live somewhere beautiful , or work somewhere glamorous . |
| 16 | When investing in a new kitchen , most people still go for easy-on-the-eye neutral shades , pure whites and sophisticated greys . |
| 17 | ‘ . It remains a valetudinarian place , with baths a mile out of town to the east where plenty of people still go for treatment . |
| 18 | He took them into the room where people usually waited for the trains — but now there was a carpet on the floor , and flowers above the pictures on the walls . |
| 19 | ‘ People always look for short-term enjoyment rather than gaining long-term spirituality . ’ |
| 20 | This illustrates the line to be drawn between credit which people genuinely choose for themselves from a range of options , and credit which they use and go on using almost automatically — credit which is therefore not entirely subject to the healthy influence of open competition and free consumer choice . |
| 21 | That is still a lot less than the $2 billion of robot sales once forecast for 1990 . |
| 22 | ‘ Servant ’ was the word people also used for client groups attached to Zuwaya lineages ; it generally implied dependence , a conditional existence or belonging . |
| 23 | The majority of people also voted for parties which advocate a Scottish parliament , but the Government rejects it . |
| 24 | And it says a lot for our low expectations that most people automatically go for the salt as soon as their plate arrives at the table . |
| 25 | I mean I should imagine there are so many people now looking for jobs |
| 26 | Most people now opt for one of the textured nylons , such as Ardura , Cordura or Kodra . |
| 27 | Thirty thousand people now worked for the brothers ' resource companies in addition to the many thousands they employed in the construction of their property . |
| 28 | People mainly fish for trout and salmon but other fish have been known to attract to the artificial flies . |
| 29 | Do er , Sarah says those though , they do n't really , people really go for him . |
| 30 | The central objective was to establish the kinds of actions and organisations that people typically make for themselves in this kind of social and spatial environment . |