Example sentences of "they [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear for their own livelihoods if it is closed . |
| 2 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 3 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 4 | They lay for a little , amicably holding hands . |
| 5 | Indeed there are those who rely to such an extent on the time they gain for reading on trains that travelling by road is not an option . |
| 6 | They no longer guard harems ; instead , as in the Mahabharata , they dance for a living . |
| 7 | They dance for hours . |
| 8 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 9 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 10 | Red dwarfs are faint , cool and small , and they account for 70 per cent of the Galaxy 's stars . |
| 11 | The SMMT estimates that they account for 40 per cent of all kits sold in the UK . |
| 12 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 13 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 14 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 15 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 16 | But among them , they account for the great majority of all innovation opportunities . |
| 17 | Together they account for nearly two-thirds of the entire temporary labour force but rather under half of total employment . |
| 18 | They account for 41 per cent of the entire labour force , but 54 per cent of the temporary labour force . |
| 19 | They are also disproportionately represented amongst a particular category of temporary workers , namely those working on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis , where they make up 64 per cent of the total , and amongst agency workers , where they account for 63 per cent of the total . |
| 20 | In the United States , for example they account for 7% of all record sales ( compared with 1% in 1975 ) , thus exceeding sales of jazz and classical music . |
| 21 | They account for 75.4 per cent to which may be added , proportionately , 10 per cent from those ‘ not known ’ . |
| 22 | In areas such as Europe and eastern Northern America , they account for 90 per cent of total sulphur dioxide emissions . |
| 23 | The three major schemes — the Library of Congress Classification Scheme , the Universal Decimal Classification Scheme and the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme — are treated in most detail , since they account for a good proportion of classification practice . |
| 24 | As you can see from Table 16.2 , they account for a tiny fraction of total assets . |
| 25 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 26 | They account for £734 million , of which more than £400 million is in UK-based funds . |
| 27 | Power plants are responsible for most of the pollution : they account for about 90 per cent of all the emissions of sulphur dioxide , 40 per cent of nitrogen dioxide and around 60-70 per cent of dust . |
| 28 | Frequent whitewashing or repapering , like John Barton 's ‘ clean stencilled pattern ’ , is often alluded to , no doubt because it made damp and derelict rooms look fresh and dry but that is the way that they remain for the reader . |
| 29 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 30 | First , a sample of 10 9 atoms is loaded into a magneto-optical trap , where they remain for just over 1 second . |