Example sentences of "[det] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 2 | Even so , the advice is similar in principle to that given for a westward flight . |
| 3 | What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems . |
| 4 | The female has a colour pattern which almost fits that given for the Threadfin Goldie . |
| 5 | And that goes for a lot of businesses ! |
| 6 | That goes for the whole Scottish team , poised between the extinction of their American dream and a famous victory . |
| 7 | ‘ That goes for the rest of the team . |
| 8 | That goes for the well-meaning GPs , health visitors and breastfeeding counsellors as well as the woman down the road who fed four babies herself until they were two years old ! |
| 9 | And that goes for the doctors I admire as well . |
| 10 | And that goes for the Bucks Badger group as well . |
| 11 | In a game similar to that devised for the radio show Desert Island Discs , we listed those who would get one bullet from a six-gun , and placed them in order of preference , much in the way the FBI listed the top wanted men in the USA . |
| 12 | This was done for all posts in the industry and the data were computerised in a similar manner to that undertaken for the study posts . |
| 13 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 14 | The Programme will be the same as that organised for the 9th Jan . |
| 15 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 16 | While this is a welcome help it does little to compensate for the difference in service provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 17 | This regulation was exploited by over 1,000 pro-Indian individuals and organizations each applying for the opportunity to participate in the hearings and thereby assist Harper in delaying a vote . |
| 18 | Let me say I believed that the wrongs of women were interconnected with and subsidiary to the wrongs of man ; that to work for the revolution was to work , indirectly , for women . |
| 19 | This structure differs from that found for the related H5 histone genes , where less than 150 bp of the proximal promoter region seems to be sufficient to ensure basal level transcription ( 19 ) . |
| 20 | Three yachts attracted our attention last summer , each designed for a purpose ; Q2 for short-handed racing , Sparkle for cruising and Rulor 11 for CHS competition . |
| 21 | The magnitude of the enteroglucagon response elicited by deoxycholate was similar to that reported for a test breakfast , measured using the same assay system . |
| 22 | Phosphorus accumulation reached a maximum during the deposition of unit VI ( Table 1a ) when the per capita output of 0.31–0.54kgyr -1 was similar to that reported for the Classic Maya . |
| 23 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 24 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 25 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 26 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 27 | Make sure the replacement water is at the same temperature as the pondwater — and this goes for the water in any temporary containers as well . |
| 28 | Some reached Switzerland and some made for the mountains , but the majority , around eighty , were recaptured by the Germans . |
| 29 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |
| 30 | All this made for a disappointing start but I am happy to say that much else is on an altogether higher level . |