Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We propose that this daunting list of stages , each of which calls for different information skills , can only be satisfactorily incorporated in the school 's programme by a curriculum policy built around these skills . |
| 2 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 3 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 4 | His analysis ( Garland 1985b , p. 32 ) concludes that ‘ the constraints of legal principle and political ideology ’ produced a system aimed at ‘ uniformity , equality of treatment and proportionality ’ in which concerns for individual reformation played only a very minor part . |
| 5 | Many portraits nowadays are corporate commissions and some would say this in itself makes for dull viewing . |
| 6 | The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading . |
| 7 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 8 | They represent the personal touch which takes the edge off what remains for most farm workers the harsh realities of their poor pay and dependent status . |