Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some go on to study for a higher degree , and some take postgraduate courses in management or production engineering . |
| 2 | The moral do n't wait for the ref 's whistle . |
| 3 | 7 Explain how to care for themselves when at home and who to contact if problems are experienced . |
| 4 | This takes us back to explanations similar to those suggested for the variation in group size early in these studies ( Crook and Gartlan 1966 ) but these do not account for the massive gregariousness of the species under optimum conditions when a more even dispersion of the population would reduce the costs of foraging . |
| 5 | These work fine expect for one annoying problem which I can not seem to eliminate . |
| 6 | The other three have not come for his sake . |
| 7 | They all come in to look for it . |
| 8 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 9 | Now that 's , no more do n't ask for |
| 10 | Experimentally it is found that while Hooke 's law and its viscoelastic analogue of Boltzmann 's superposition principle hold adequately for very small strains ( typically less than 0.1 per cent ) they certain do not hold for large strains of 10 per cent or more . |
| 11 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 12 | Most do not qualify for redundancy pay , pensions , sick pay or national-insurance benefits until they have been with a firm for two years . |