Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 2 | I have to say , myself , you know I feel one of the worst thing you can call a man in the English language is a term that 's used for a women 's genitalia . |
| 3 | it was agencies like Christian Aid that had lobbied for the inclusion of Development Education in the National Curriculum . |
| 4 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 5 | It was then , after a storm that had blown for seven days at speeds exceeding seventy knots , that the Ramapo encountered the biggest wave ever reported by a ship at sea . |
| 6 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 7 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 8 | He was also one prime source of the notion that has counted for so much among those with misgivings about democracy ever since : that of the tyranny of the majority . |
| 9 | Plainly , many of the hospitals south of the border that have applied for trust status are making considerable advances in the delivery of patient care . |
| 10 | The chill that had gone for these brief seconds settled again . |
| 11 | But I know you said there was a big erm tariff against it , but on the other hand they do get a lot of more benefits from it , like er well , the erm the price that 's paid for a lot more , and , and it gives a lot more employment . |
| 12 | Denholm was surrounded by an almost palpable aura of aristocratic exhaustion that had disturbed and irritated Talbot in the early stage of their acquaintanceship , a feeling that had lasted for no more than half an hour . |
| 13 | Fraser 's relief at being able to resume a career that looked destined for a premature encounter with the scrapheap is manifest . |
| 14 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 15 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 16 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 17 | It was fitting , granted pop 's liberation of the private , that the sexuality that had lain for so long as ‘ private ’ under the dominant culture now became public with shocking force : ‘ I noticed that several of the men and women present had weals across their back and buttocks . |
| 18 | Our society too still has recognized ways of marking the change in status that has occurred for some people . |
| 19 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 20 | Yeah , well it 's like this fellow that got done for speeding . |
| 21 | Relatives may make a gift to a local hospital that has cared for a loved one . |
| 22 | Sunderland failed badly to reproduce the form that had accounted for the division 's runaway leaders , Ipswich , by a comfortable 3–0 scoreline just 48 hours earlier . |
| 23 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 24 | I mean , if you look in the budget this year , one parent benefit was frozen , the additional personal allowance that 's paid for one parents for taxation was also frozen , and the government does not like paying any benefits to one parent families because horror of horrors ! |
| 25 | The Full Plans method is the old system that has existed for many years , whereby detailed plans of your proposal are submitted in duplicate , along with an application form . |
| 26 | One thing is clear : Islam flourishes like a hardy plant wherever it springs up , and a tradition that has endured for over 1,300 years is sure to endure for a few more . |
| 27 | Mr X is managing director of a limited company that has traded for several years . |
| 28 | This work will not be done in a vacuum , but for a problem that has existed for at least a lifetime a few more months of thought might lead to better outcomes , and ones that will be more readily accepted . |
| 29 | These maps represent something , certainly , but not the ultimate mystery of the first creation that has gone for ever with its scar inside one huge unstable atom . |
| 30 | It is not only the Conservative party that has asked for such an explanation ; Labour supporters and sympathisers have done so as well . |