Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 2 | This I did for five weeks returning to hospital to have my X-rays checked . |
| 3 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 4 | Five pads are supplied , each one lasting for eight hours . |
| 5 | Which is why you must do that sort of That that 's probably all you need for that bit . |
| 6 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
| 7 | Talk of a Mexican devaluation , and all it entails for foreign investment , is an issue the authorities can not will away . |
| 8 | By choosing those which last for many months as the basis and adding others which emerge , flower and then fade away , you can create stability while still incorporating change . |
| 9 | Demeaning offences fall into two broad categories , those which are treated by our participants as part of the generally resented background of personal devaluation , and those which call for specific retribution according to rule . |
| 10 | As Oliver ( 1986 ) has recently pointed out , the word was originally used in respect of those who cared for dependent adult relatives , mostly elderly people : |
| 11 | By 1928 Vidor was almost a cult figure amongst movie intellectuals and when he was in Europe in that year all those who hoped for better things listened with interest as he pointed out that independent film-makers and the ‘ little theatre movement ’ would never compete with Hollywood and would never break through to the large undeveloped market unless they attracted sufficient investment to improve their product . |
| 12 | PMC works , according to its brochure , ‘ for those who fight for democratic empowerment , for environmental values , for social justice and economic fairness , for people of color , for women , for all groups historically disenfranchised . ’ |
| 13 | The second point is that precisely because legal conservatism values precedent , and will overturn prior cases only rarely , those who hope for great sea-changes in the law with the appointment of politically friendly judges are often disappointed . |
| 14 | She emerged from her apartment preceded by officers of the household and as she went along ‘ spoke very graciously , first to one , then to another , whether foreign ministers , or those who attended for different reasons ’ . |
| 15 | Of course , those who join for one week holidays wo n't see the whole range of our social activities . |
| 16 | Paul Jackson , for example , the Director of Programmes for Carlton Television , said a little while ago ‘ those who argue for Current Affairs to stay in peak time are just not accepting things as they are . |
| 17 | Those who argue for participatory democracy believe active citizenship can not be established within the limitations set by the existing liberal-democratic framework . |
| 18 | And , if it is thought that such a state of affairs is , for whatever reason , undesirable , then it behoves those who argue for another approach to learn the lesson of political realities . |
| 19 | The Ayrshire Cattle Society was founded in 1877 and its first herdbook published the following year , but there continued to be conflict between those who bred for show and those who bred for commercial production . |
| 20 | Those who act for both sides will still have to satisfy the selectors that they can conduct actions properly on behalf of patients . ) |
| 21 | I thank those who fought for that gift and who built the lasting institutions of NATO and the European Community from the ruins of 1945 . |
| 22 | Those who fought for political control after James V 's death , therefore , were fighting for far more than personal position . |
| 23 | The problem we have to grapple with in trying to understand the significance of the events is the contradiction between the ostensibly humanitarian instincts of those who campaigned for legal change , and the controlling impact they had on people 's lives , particularly working-class girls and homosexuals . |
| 24 | Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class . |
| 25 | In some cases the day centres genuinely act as training centres , preparing those who attend for eventual independence , while in others the aim is simply to offer a daily change of environment and relief to their families for those too handicapped ever to lead independent lives . |
| 26 | The services of ISCO can be called upon by those who enrol for several years after the pupil have left school . |
| 27 | In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment . |
| 28 | He left when he was eighteen , presumably with the cry so often heard from those who look for instant wisdom in courses designed primarily to foster skills by which such discrimination may be attained : " the course can not give me what I am looking for " . |
| 29 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 30 | Although I know there are those who work for different ends from most of us in this House , yet there are many in all ranks and all parties who will re-echo my prayer : ‘ Give peace in our time , O Lord . ’ |