Example sentences of "they [vb base] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
| 2 | Giving very young children too much choice over when to get up , what to wear or what they eat for breakfast can be a recipe for disaster — acrimonious arguments , delays and tantrums . |
| 3 | Charlton ( 6th ) hope that Lee will be fit as they push for promotion . |
| 4 | Lowering her voice she added confidentially , ‘ He was years younger than I. ’ Then , turning her attention to her steak , and in a tone as shocked as the one she selected to convey her distrust of the male , she asked , ‘ D' you know what breed of cattle they slaughter for meat ? ’ |
| 5 | Her daughter works in Rome but lives with her mother when in Naples and her ex=husband , still a good friend , lives also very close and has the adult son , but they combine for Christmas , being on good terms . |
| 6 | But at least once a week , they hunt for meat . |
| 7 | In deploring this latest IRA atrocity , and hoping that those responsible will be brought to justice — like all those , from both sides in Northern Ireland , who carry out squalid murders — may I ask whether the Secretary of State agrees that it is important that we do not play into the hands of the Provisional IRA by following policies which , although the IRA deny it , they want for propaganda purposes in the Republic of Ireland and the United States ? |
| 8 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 9 | It is also not uncommon for hospitals to request a number of nurses from an agency without detailing the areas the nurses will be required to work in until they report for duty . |
| 10 | They are alarmed at the sustained physical effort of the Broomfield players and the manner in which they battle for possession . |
| 11 | They propose that a bonus be paid which is based upon an approximation to the change in social welfare.4 Specifically , the " incentive component " of the managerial emolument package that they propose for period t is given by a function of the increase in profits and the decrease in price between period t-1 and period t : Such an area is represented in figure 4.5 by the shaded portion , as can be seen by noting that the first term represents the rectangle ABCD and the second , the area under the marginal cost curve unc between unc and unc ( i.e. the integral |
| 12 | Without adequate built-in safeguards , there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help . |
| 13 | That was why he promoted the idea of the Grand Slam Trust Fund , an opportunity for the four Grand Slam tournaments , as the pinnacles of the game , to make a major contribution to the grass roots on a global basis , over and above the enormous funding they provide for tennis in their own countries . |
| 14 | At present the opportunities they provide for cost cutting are more to the fore . |
| 15 | It immediately alarms all the others and they head for home at speed . |
| 16 | They hope for competence . |
| 17 | Ultimately the attractiveness of MINIS-type systems to public sector managers lies in the comprehensive picture which they can provide of organizational activities , and also in the potential which they hold for decentralization within departments . |
| 18 | They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed . |
| 19 | They depend for business on Copts , but Prester John 's poor little Ethiopes are not even permitted to roll eggs at Easter . |
| 20 | We will start to increase nursery education places for three and four year olds by making sure that local councils actually use the money they receive for nursery education to create new places and by switching capital funds earmarked for the City Technology College programmes . |
| 21 | ‘ Finding your little cultural field-trip interestingly ? ’ asks Riva , when they pause for breath . |
| 22 | Seabirds , including the Antarctic petrel , feed their young with plastic objects they mistake for food . |
| 23 | What they mistake for kitsch is our past . |
| 24 | As they break for food the general conversation is n't much toned down for her benefit . |
| 25 | They shop for relief from physician to physician , their self-esteem diminishes , and.their anxieties increase when they are told repeatedly that their symptoms are ‘ only due to nerves ’ . |
| 26 | As they jockey for position , firms often adopt quite different strategies within the same industry . |
| 27 | UK HOTELS have once again come under fire over the amounts they charge for telephone calls . |
| 28 | ‘ Find out how much they charge for water . |
| 29 | They ride … they race … they watch for fun … and they roll up in their thousands … the South Midlands Area Hunt Club got the new season underway at Heythrop near Chipping Norton with a bumper card of 158 horses and 11 races … |
| 30 | They are not necessarily closely related ; but have come to look alike because they forage for food in places such as wetlands and grasslands where these physical features have an advantage . |