Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band plays for quite a bit . |
| 2 | This greed for status reinforces the wife 's role as child-bearing domestic slave or chattel , and spoils for ever the chance of a real relationship . |
| 3 | The baby sleeps for about an hour from 11 till 12 — I 'm afraid I read a book then — I do n't do very much housework ! |
| 4 | From forty thousand pounds worth of designer garden to patio displays for just a few pounds — there 's something for everyone . |
| 5 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's very thick with the new master , Humphrey Morris , which counts for quite a lot , ’ Bridget said thoughtfully . |
| 7 | She now writes for both the British and American press . |
| 8 | I know that the Consolidated Fund Bill allows for only a short debate , but there will be other opportunities for raising the matter , including tomorrow . |
| 9 | Nothing happens for quite a while , then the rod-tip trembles , so I hold the rod in one hand and the line in the other . |
| 10 | But the association of menstrual blood pollutes her and she loses for ever the pristine purity of a female child . |
| 11 | Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next . |
| 12 | We have assumed that a pivot exists for both the up-problem and the down-problem ( as was the case in P1*/LP0 ) so that both up- and down-penalties are defined . |
| 13 | According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film . |
| 14 | ‘ And alongside the target for inflation , I am setting monitoring ranges for both the narrow and broad measures of the money supply . |
| 15 | Perhaps we will refer later to the blatant dishonesty — I am sorry , I must watch my language ; let us say something bordering on the dishonest — of the suggestion that we can have a banding system which avoids for ever the problem of revaluation . |
| 16 | One such person who a number of us were worried about just did not answer letters or telephone calls for over a year . |
| 17 | And it does so in syntax which calls for quite a feat of structuring and interpreting . |
| 18 | The futuristic hopper calls for quite a bit of disguising . |
| 19 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |
| 20 | Michael Silverman himself , who handles assignments in the firm 's property sector — which now accounts for over a quarter of its business — has also established a reputation in the retail industry . |
| 21 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Japanese industry now accounts for nearly a third of sales . |
| 24 | It is early days yet and the first division contains only nine teams ( next season the number will be upped to 11 ) which accounts for only a small percentage of Ireland 's playing strength . |
| 25 | Firm mobility usually accounts for only a small proportion of employment growth in any area , with most coming from existing or new indigenous firms ( Cross 1981 ; Watts 1981 ) . |
| 26 | After all , ’ she added as he looked back at her impassively , ‘ it accounts for only a fraction of your business interests . |
| 27 | Although cardboard accounts for only a small fraction of waste produced by the company , it has the advantage of being easily recycled . |
| 28 | The latest move comes at a time when ICI 's £1.2bn a year pharmaceutical division , which accounts for around a fifth of group trading profits , is set to emerge from a relatively fallow period . |
| 29 | But it 's the establishment front runner in the US , where Dell pioneered the direct marketing of PCs , which now accounts for almost a third of the total market . |
| 30 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |