Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 BREASTFEEDING — Suckling ; a still nearly universal way of feeding infants and young children in most developing countries , first exclusively by lactation ( full breastfeeding that often lasts about three to six months ) , then introducing supplementary food ( partial breastfeeding that may last for several years until weaning ) .
2 He felt he needed professional help , and entered into analysis that would continue for many years to come .
3 There ought to be a prayer that would do for all men , all the murdered bodies all over the world .
4 Mr Brazauskas , First Secretary of the republic 's party , said all political forces and ethnic groups should agree on a consensus that would fight for this goal , as well as social justice , human rights , and democracy .
5 Can you or any of your readers put forward ideas that would account for these oddities ?
6 By far the most controversial view comes from County NatWest which thinks that ‘ confusion will arise , particularly in the eyes of uninformed investors ’ , due to the ‘ plethora of different performance numbers ’ that will emerge for each company .
7 You 'll find whether it be anything with safety , hygiene or security and fraud , there will always be quite rightly a pressure group or an interest group that will push for that rule or regulation .
8 Covenants and bequests form an essential part of the hospice 's income and staff are gratified that can care for more patients and support bereaved families through this sort of help .
9 Such property is identical to the person and may stand for that person in his or her absence .
10 However , he added : ‘ We think it is high time the French government took responsibility for their citizens and should pay for this kind of damage . ’
11 These are very useful and should last for several seasons .
12 David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon .
13 Amongst the villagers , the division on Friday night was between the men , who had been in the pub and could vouch for each other , and the wives , who had been watching telly at home and could n't , but who seemed knowledgeable , when pressed , about a number of ITV programmes .
14 Small rabbits passed through the nets and would escape for another day .
15 Our own expert Mandy Johnson has been telling you the wisdom of physiotherapy for many , many months and will continue for some time to come .
16 The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group :
17 These powers are very crafty and will look for any opportunity to get at us .
18 The decision takes immediate effect and will remove for many workers the threat of reprisal from aggrieved party officials .
19 They will not move out of the tradition in manner or moral , but will only marry higher education and will search for some way to use it .
20 Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal .
21 We use much of our own organic produce and can cater for most diets .
22 At dinner a military band played ; the governor 's wife was ‘ a very agreeable woman , with an uncommonly mild and sweet tone of voice ’ , and the governor told Johnson and Boswell that ‘ the Arabs could live for five days without victuals , and subsist for three weeks on nothing else but the blood of their camels , who could lose so much of it as would suffice for that time , without being exhausted . ’
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