Example sentences of "and [vb -s] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months . |
| 2 | Pancreatic hyperplasia can be detected as early as one week after 90% PSBR and persists for at least six months . |
| 3 | This neomucisa contains all normal intestinal cell lineages and persists for the life of the animal . |
| 4 | We will urge our EC partners to bring animal welfare standards up to UK levels , for example by banning veal crates and stalls and tethers for pigs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The vintage style Clean 1 is perfect for almost anything , while Clean 2 is enough to bring out the Mutt Lange in anyone — it 's so sparkly , and begs for the addition of some subtle effects . |
| 7 | If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court , he may get off with a fine and deportation . |
| 8 | P. He is so much more powerful , and goes for stuff fully . |
| 9 | He knows exactly what he wants and goes for it — no matter what ! |
| 10 | Hoffs twists some hair and goes for the sexism angle . |
| 11 | STORY:7.30am : Climbs out of bed in his luxury Brighton home and goes for his habitual five mile run , alone out of preference . |
| 12 | If you stare at a Rottweiler it thinks you are challenging it and goes for you immediately , knocking you down and tearing your throat out . |
| 13 | He announces his inability to arouse Sir Ralph , is about to return and unlock Whitton 's chamber himself , then changes his mind and goes for Colebrooke the lieutenant . |
| 14 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet from among the members of the unicameral House of Assembly , which is composed of 21 elected representatives and nine appointed senators and sits for five years . |
| 15 | Now suppose that the buyer commits a wrongful anticipatory repudiation of the contract and the seller immediately accepts that repudiation as terminating the contract and sues for damages . |
| 16 | Britain has proved to be one of the least ‘ community-minded ’ members of the EEC and has for long been at odds with other states about the level of British contributions to the EEC budget . |
| 17 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 18 | Obviously , if one particular question is compulsory and has for example a weighting of 1½ then you must allocate 50 per cent more time to this question than to the others . |
| 19 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 20 | If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself . |
| 21 | She is an APRS member and has for many years been a life member of other heritage and conservation bodies . |
| 22 | The Thai Tobacco Monopoly ( TTM ) is owned by the Ministry of Finance and has for years excluded foreign brands . |
| 23 | This characteristic is quite general and holds for geodesics in spaces that are less symmetric than that of a sphere , and in spaces of hi–her dimension . |
| 24 | The disease front has been moving ahead by fits and starts for most of the last two decades and three years ago crossed the Italian frontier into the provinces of South Tyrol and Venice . |
| 25 | An enclosed community guards and cares for an enclosed community and we the public gladly subcontract this duty , hoping that it will be carried out unseen and unheard . |
| 26 | The Longeval Animal Sanctuary rescues and cares for many animals , and also regularly visit inner-city schools taking lambs , goats , piglets , calves , rabbits etc to give the children there the opportunity to see and touch these animals for themselves . |
| 27 | The shop owner gives him to a little girl who needs him and cares for him . |
| 28 | He even has a bushy moustache and cares for a very special princess . |
| 29 | MEMHS , which employs 180 staff and cares for those suffering from mental illness in the district , first applied to become a NHS trust in its own right last year . |
| 30 | A society in which children are freed from abuse and are respected as human beings , a society which values and cares for its older citizens . |