Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |
| 2 | Therefore , retirement constitutes for many people the end of an important element of life . |
| 3 | Is not that situation made even worse by the massive Government cuts in renovation grants for elderly people ? |
| 4 | God longs for all people to come to him like the son returned to the father in the parable . |
| 5 | Figure 3.1 offers a possible starting-point for explaining why science has for many people ruled out religion . |
| 6 | I would like to outline some of the major terms of the legislation , the far reaching implications it has for unemployed people and what we as a local group are trying to do to combat it . |
| 7 | But the word romance has for most people the immediate association of love and , in the main , of heterosexual love . |
| 8 | The figure represented the absolute minimum considered necessary by the government and the UN to provide basic food needs for 1,400,000 people worst affected by the civil war . |
| 9 | The Green Party is committed to policies and an economic system which cares for all people and the environment . |
| 10 | In the evidence presented by Qureshi and Simons ( 1987 ) and also by Ungerson ( 1987 ) on who cares for elderly people , daughters-in-law ranked above sons as people likely to be providing such care . |
| 11 | The countries covered by the agreement , which allows for joint sales and marketing activities , include Bulgaria , the countries of the former Soviet Union , the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Romania and Slovakia . |
| 12 | The head porter or housekeeper usually distributes any mail that arrives for residential staff . |
| 13 | Does the Prime Minister agree that there is an increasing role for responsibility and involvement of individuals in improving their career prospects , whether through training credits for young people or through performance-related pay ? |
| 14 | British Gas will do free safety checks for elderly people who live alone , and some electricity boards will visit your home and advise you . |
| 15 | MY heart absolutely bleeds for those people of my age who are now suffering hardship . |
| 16 | Betty Maxwell , 72 , said : ‘ My heart absolutely bleeds for those people of my age who are now suffering hardship . |
| 17 | She said ’ My heart absolutely bleeds for those people who are suffering hardship . |
| 18 | She added : ‘ My heart absolutely bleeds for those people of my age who have been taken in that collapse and are now suffering hardship . |
| 19 | Costs include : buying or leasing the new property ; building and refurbishment ; staff costs ( including redundancy/severance payments , retention payments if staff are to be encouraged to stay until the move goes ahead , recruitment and training costs for new staff and relocation and removal allowances for those moving ) ; communication costs ( including the installation of telephone and telex facilities and changes to stationery ) ; occupancy costs ( including rent , rates , lighting , heating and security ) and other costs ( such as new machinery and the cost of removal of goods from the old to the new site ) . |
| 20 | If the relocation package appears very favourable , the company may find itself paying out relocation costs for more staff than it had budgeted for . |
| 21 | The set-up costs for mass media channels are often bid up by media corporations using oligopolistic tactics to exclude new entrants to competition . |
| 22 | Ecolo-J , a branch of Les Verts for young people , has barred around 20 members in Normandy , Nantes , Angers and Grenoble . |
| 23 | Staff unions and many councillors last year attacked large pay increases for senior staff in all departments . |
| 24 | You can not treat the second that way ; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others . |
| 25 | In other words , every two pixels accounts for one byte of information . |
| 26 | Secondly we have already noted that banks are opening more accounts for lower-paid people , alongside the trend towards payment of wages through bank accounts rather than in cash . |
| 27 | But because we , we sort of account for just our territory , it 's core territory , and our territory accounts for forty percent of revenue , there 's an awful lot of accounts registered , so Jenny does n't get any , hardly any time at all to actually go off and , and do any cold calling or anything like that , it 's all B M S. |
| 28 | However , Mr Barber reports that the number of people planning to retire to a home in France now accounts for some 50% of enquiries . |
| 29 | TSL Holdings reached pre-negotiated agreement in principle with some of its major creditors to restructure its debt in a deal expected to result in an exchange of existing debt for a combination of new equity and long-term debt , and the agreement was reached in recognition that it would make the Chapter 11 filing ; Europe accounts for some 80% of sales . |
| 30 | UK business now accounts for some 30% of the European total . |