Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measure was termed the I-measure ( where I stands for intensity ) . |
| 2 | NEUE MITTE is in the centre of the town of Oberhausen ( population 225,000 ) , which is itself in the state of North Rhine Westphalia , the largest of the German states both in population ( 17.5 million ) and economic power , where it accounts for over a quarter of Germany 's gross national product . |
| 3 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 4 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 5 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 6 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact . |
| 7 | Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m . |
| 8 | Although he allows for many areas of uncertainty in the study of catharsis , Scheff nevertheless accepts the universality of the need to handle destructive emotions , and proposes that ritual , as a cathartic experience , be reinstated in the West as ‘ a dramatic form for coping with universal distress ’ ( 1979 : 114 ) . |
| 9 | The editor 's notes reveal his disillusionment with the increasing commercialisation of the game although he calls for ‘ changes which would provide a dynamic , viable circuit for the professional game in the 1990s and beyond ’ . |
| 10 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 11 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 12 | ‘ And what happens if it lasts longer for one of us than it does for the other ? ’ |
| 13 | It is now clear that the presence of the wall causes the fluid viscosity to enter in a much more important way into the dynamics of turbulent motion than it does for free flows . |
| 14 | As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy . |
| 15 | that er normally lasts longer from Birmingham than it does for for here . |
| 16 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 17 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 18 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 19 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 20 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 21 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 22 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 23 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 24 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 25 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 26 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 27 | Unlike many other organisations , the Church usually gets much more than it pays for , thanks to the generosity of those who provide for its music . |
| 28 | Satan , visualized as a great fish seeing his enemy in such distress , swoops to devour but gets more than he bargains for . |
| 29 | Louis Untermeyer , Robert Frost 's correspondent who was to be an influential anthologist , wrote of Poems ( The Freeman , 30 June 1920 ) that ‘ Eliot cares more for his art than he does for his attitudes ’ ; and that ‘ the exaltation which is the very breath of poetry — that combination of tenderness and toughness — is scarcely ever present in Eliot 's lines ’ . |
| 30 | Anybody who " ramps " or causes " ramping " of USM stocks in this way cares more for the profits on his own transaction profits possibly running into thousands of pounds than he does for those of his clients . |