Example sentences of "that [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that little happened for later , several members collectively complained about ‘ one insufferably lazy and inattentive caddie who has no idea how to make a tee ! ’ |
| 2 | Natural theology , even of Brunner 's qualified kind , could only be a snare and a delusion , a thing in which one ought to have no interest except that properly shown for an abyss beside the path — the interest whose concern is to avoid falling into it . |
| 3 | ‘ Carter 's a queer that only goes for straights ? ’ |
| 4 | But the treatment has to be repeated because the Americans transplanted the gene into cells that only live for a few months . |
| 5 | What we had in mind there is a parallel organization to the ones that already exist for other client groups . |
| 6 | Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items . |
| 7 | The identities of chemical units that normally exist for less than a microsecond are important clues to how reactions take place . |
| 8 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 9 | It 's just chat — how 's the family , here 's the latest joke , how 's it going — and that somehow makes for great entertainment . |
| 10 | Recent surveys find 80% of Americans in favour , though the proportion drops when they are offered the alternative of a life imprisonment that genuinely means for life . |
| 11 | We passed a few minutes in the exchanges that usually pass for conversation between people who know each other slightly and have no real business connection . |
| 12 | The indies also have a role in picking up those that once recorded for a major label , like the Dutch singer , Mathilde Santing . |
| 13 | Sadly , for Hughie Gallacher , the man with the magic feet , the man with the greatest goal scoring ratio that ever played for Scotland , the worst was still to come . |
| 14 | It was her smile that always did for him . |
| 15 | One must also mention the limitations that still exist for employment of females in the catering industry in the Middle East . |
| 16 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 17 | You just shot up , whizzing all over the place , erratic but really zooming , and that partly compensated for any lack of technique . |
| 18 | Why has n't evolution produced organisms that practically last for selecting for is reproductive success . |
| 19 | The engine is the same size as in the old car , but the bodywork seems lighter and the shape is certainly smoother , so that probably accounts for the difference , ’ she says . |
| 20 | Peter Edwards looks at the blank space that now passes for a promotions policy . |
| 21 | Given the requirement that medical evidence has to be served with the proceedings , and given the long waiting lists that now apply for very senior surgeons , it might be a good idea either to get an initial report from the treating surgeon or to use one of the independent physicians mentioned above . |
| 22 | Put together , they could be said to constitute more than the ‘ perhaps one or two opportunities ’ the discussion set out to find , but an outline strategy for reclaiming a grossly under-used source of much-needed brain-power in the boardroom : a strategy that now calls for sharpening and refining . |
| 23 | Put your pointer over one of the sides of the border that now stretches for twelve cells , click , and drag the range to where you want it . |
| 24 | The question that now clamours for an answer is clear : why in the Exodus complaint stories does God immediately respond by performing miracles of salvation , while in the Numbers stories he replies with miracles of devastating destruction , or , in the case of Numbers 20 , with salvation overshadowed by terrible condemnation ? |
| 25 | He is absolutely right to be scornful of the pretentious organisational plans that often pass for science policy in developing countries . |
| 26 | In any case he had the deepest contempt , first to last , for the facile conceptualising that often passes for advanced thought , rather like Orwell 's contempt for W. H. Auden 's partisan poem ‘ Spain' ( 1937 ) : |
| 27 | Through Miss Hatherby 's dolls and pictures , Constance became increasingly interested in her own clothes — and had rows over them with her mother that often reverberated for days . |
| 28 | Until 1939 he continued to teach medieval history , giving tutorials that often lasted for a couple of hours . |
| 29 | There was a cloakroom too , if she remembered rightly , with a nice rosy brick floor that really paid for doing . |
| 30 | A gift that really grows for you |