Example sentences of "that [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But in adults it 's like a flu that lingers for several weeks . |
| 2 | There is a puzzle that has for many years intrigued mathematicians and philosophers . |
| 3 | On Saturdays and Sundays she grew more sanguine , but the mood was dispersed on Monday morning with the prospect of enduring that place for another week — right through till Friday when all the managers wore tweeds . |
| 4 | Study that object for several minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ [ ‘ Terminus ’ ] in the understanding of the law does not only signify the limits and limitation of time , but also the estate and interest that passes for that time . |
| 6 | This is not an income that allows for any luxuries . |
| 7 | However , following a meeting of the NSF Council on Jan. 17 it was announced that plans for both referendums , scheduled for Jan. 28 , had been cancelled . |
| 8 | It is suggested that support for such organisations is drawn disproportionately from the middle class , and in particular those sections of the middle class that feel most at threat from the structural changes taking place in contemporary British society . |
| 9 | One is the actual career breaks that happen for any woman , unless she is in a very highly paid job , where she can afford child care of her own , or unless she 's in those very few jobs in this country which actually erm are with employees who are responsible enough to either provide their own child care , or to allow women those sorts of career breaks in order to bring up children . |
| 10 | Military adventures abroad that extend for any length of time depend on the legislature being willing to provide the necessary funding and the Senate 's approval of treaties can , by no means be taken for granted . |
| 11 | Repeated training can cause changes that last for several weeks . |
| 12 | ( Thank goodness for magazines that cater for all tastes . ) |
| 13 | She 'd just got a job at Simon Peter 's , a twenty-four-hour supermarket chain that catered for all funeral needs . |
| 14 | A state of life that calls for another way of living . |
| 15 | Perhaps this can be seen as a statement of a general condition that obtains for all workers . |
| 16 | The other weakness in Handy 's argument is that there is every possibility that demand for more education and health care will be expressed in the market place as consumers choose to buy these commodities . |
| 17 | This is a natural condition before menarche , and it re-occurs after menopause , during pregnancy as well as after abortion or birth ( post-partum amenorrhoea ) that lasts for some months even if the women does not breastfeed or nurses only for a short period . |
| 18 | Nature requests authors to deposit sequence and crystallographic data in the databases that exist for this purpose , and to mention availability of these data . |
| 19 | The sixteenth-century started with a power struggle in Europe between the Holy Roman Empire and France , a battle that continued for many decades , with the conflict chiefly centring around Milan . |
| 20 | All they had to do was indicate the points in the text at which the language created an effect of surprise ; the task of the stylistician was then to analyze the contrast , between the linguistic structure of the device and that of its immediate context , that accounted for this effect of surprise . |
| 21 | The formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 was Morgan 's biggest deal , forging together 11 firms that accounted for half America 's steel industry . |
| 22 | Then he became dopey and fell into a deep sleep that lasted for several hours . |
| 23 | So marked were my anxieties that I buried that experience for several years . |
| 24 | It 's not unusual to find schools that have for many years undertaken a job analysis for all staff including ancillary assistants , caretaker and nursery nurses . |