Example sentences of "what [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What goes for one player should also go for the other . |
| 2 | ‘ I check the bookings to get a general idea of what to plan for weekly activities . |
| 3 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 4 | What matters for this purpose is that if it escapes it is likely to do mischief and this is the meaning to be given to ‘ dangerous thing ’ in this context . |
| 5 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 6 | Dead trees turn out to be commonplace — hundreds of them standing knee deep in the wide , slow meanders of the Murray River or more loosely scattered in a macabre parkland where what passes for good grazing has been toasted a mauvy brown by the long summer sun . |
| 7 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 8 | So you know what to do for that . |
| 9 | The question may then arise in the future as to what to do for those potential sufferers who are identified in this way and the answer is the same as for those currently identified through the MMPI and for many families in whom there is other genetically inherited disease : specifically educate to Protect . |
| 10 | The second ace is the country 's near-monopoly of traditional traffic-free villages — or what pass for traffic-free villages in these days of electric taxis and buses . |
| 11 | But the general proposition that human affairs must be understood from within does not require the assumption that individuals make history , except perhaps as a convenient device for identifying what calls for deeper understanding . |
| 12 | What accounts for these social improvements across the whole field of human affairs , between your age and mine ? |
| 13 | This agreement ( which gave formal recognition to what had for several decades been becoming established practice ) brings out well the complexities and ambiguities inherent in much of the administrative structure of old-regime Europe . |
| 14 | What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation ? |
| 15 | They represent the personal touch which takes the edge off what remains for most farm workers the harsh realities of their poor pay and dependent status . |
| 16 | So when one producer or studio is responsible for a string of hits , it 's only necessary to find out what distinguishes its operation from that of other , less successful , operations , or what has changed when the same producer or studio hit a bum run , to discover what makes for successful film production . |
| 17 | What remained for most villagers was : ‘ The Hobnail Express ’ , as Sam Friend put it , ‘ Shanks 's pony : stay home or walk twelve miles to Ipswich and perhaps spend the night on Mother Greenfield 's pillow on the way back . ’ |
| 18 | As you will see from my strategies — all of which , let me repeat , are derived not from my own beliefs but from what teachers say they actually do — what works for one person may seem quite bizarre to another , and serve only to increase the distress of a third . |
| 19 | What works for one person may not suit another . |
| 20 | N.B. Languages and language learners are very idiosyncratic and what works for some may not work for others . |