Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 2 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 3 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |
| 4 | Not least important is the constructive alternative it offers for alienated youth . |
| 5 | The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward . |
| 6 | ( b ) by an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies , or |
| 7 | ( b ) an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies . |
| 8 | The main proof Van Laue offers for this argument is the polarisation of society between global conflict and a backward society that made a liberal constitution impossible . |
| 9 | And we 've got a list of people who have responded to telesales offers for ambient music compilation albums — about three thousand on that one … |
| 10 | She records for Mute Records , who , as the the sales of Dépeche Mode show , are no slouches in distributing sounds to the masses . |
| 11 | But , in keeping with the decline of the Kentish hop industry , they have been turned into weekend retreats for green-wellied Londoners driving trendy 4×4 jeeps . |
| 12 | On average a school pupil enrols for 2.2 modules in a year compared to 5.6 modules for an FE student . |
| 13 | ‘ She plays for higher stakes than the ones you can offer . ’ |
| 14 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 15 | He plays for Western Suburbs against Newcastle in Sunday 's Winfield Cup play-offs . |
| 16 | On this example , Peter Dawson 's rendition of ‘ God Save The King ’ plays for 22 seconds . |
| 17 | This example plays for 3 minutes 10 seconds and weighs 2.2 kilograms . |
| 18 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 19 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 20 | The water level is automatically reduced to normal if the machine over-fills for some reason . |
| 21 | On April 27 a US C141 transport plane carrying relief supplies for Kurdish refugees arrived on the Iran-Iraq border . |
| 22 | The market for stable power supplies for sensitive equipment is worth £1.2bn in Europe and is growing at 10 per cent per year . |
| 23 | The special Lok-style which Golding devises for this purpose differs considerably from the style he uses towards the end of the novel , when the point of view shifts to homo sapiens . |
| 24 | Now let us assume that standard credit terms for goods received and despatched in this particular industry involve payment after 30 days with neither discounts for early payment nor penalties for late payment . |
| 25 | Both countries were among the non-permanent membership of the Council , which sits for two years , the others for that particular two-year period being Canada , Colombia , the Ivory Coast , Ethiopia , Finland , Malaysia , Romania and Zaire . |
| 26 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet from among the members of the unicameral House of Assembly , which is composed of 21 elected representatives and nine appointed senators and sits for five years . |
| 27 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for five years and consists of six appointed Senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 28 | Therefore , retirement constitutes for many people the end of an important element of life . |
| 29 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 30 | Evidence from Re-Os isotopes for plume-lithosphere mixing in Karoo flood basalt genesis |