Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen for her own part will have to face up to the fact that , however perfect her public role , she has dismally failed in private to give her children the guidance they needed for stable marriages . |
| 2 | The legal work they do for other clients gives them this experience . |
| 3 | My guess is he 's moved across to some private security firm — the sort they use for unattributable jobs like this . |
| 4 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 5 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 6 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 7 | The question is whether the ‘ power ’ referred to was the power to write poetry ; for though the Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) are of high quality they mark for most people the end of Wordsworth 's poetic life . |
| 8 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 9 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 10 | Council , although , the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse ! |
| 11 | In addition they called for lower taxes , free health care , cheaper housing loans and increased spending on state-owned industries . |
| 12 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 13 | When they left the restaurant they stood for some moments surveying the view of Prague , its many spires , red-roofed buildings , with a green dome here , the Vltava river with some of its bridges there , the Charles Bridge in particular Then , ‘ Shall we walk the rest of the way down ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From the resumption of collective bargaining in 1976 until 1986 , there were over 30 national strikes , but almost without exception they lasted for 24 hours or less , often for only 4 hours . |
| 16 | We will increase the time they have for each patient by reversing the financial pressures to take on too many patients . |
| 17 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 18 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 19 | In the latter group there had often been erosion of their first language and their command of English was confined to the language they needed for everyday use . |