Example sentences of "[adv] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Cambodian peace talks in Paris broke down in 1988 , it was Mr Solarz , along with the Australian foreign minister , Gareth Evans , who pushed successfully for an expanded UN role in the transitional peace settlement . |
| 2 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |
| 3 | Imagine now that a customer of an individual bank applies successfully for an overdraft . |
| 4 | Local hire is possible for those on shore holidays who can go ‘ there and back ’ , and just wish to potter locally for an hour or two . |
| 5 | A significant contemporary manifestation of that belief , and a vivid instance of how ‘ modern ’ sexuality became a surrogate religion , somewhere for an essentially religious notion of integrity to survive in a mutated and displaced form , was at the prosecution for obscenity of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover ( 1960 ) . |
| 6 | Lewis drove and hooked stylishly for an hour when opportunity offered , before Cairns showed the close fieldsmen how to do it by taking a superb diving catch at gully . |
| 7 | The leaders of the new state — Ignacy Paderewski and Roman Dmowski — were campaigning vigorously for an even bigger allocation of German territory . |
| 8 | These perceived injustices led the trade union and labour movement to campaign vigorously for an end to the insurance system and for a single universal , Exchequer-funded scheme to cover all forms of primary care . |
| 9 | If an HIV antibody test is not mentioned in reply to that question , the person whose blood sample is being taken need not refuse consent expressly for an HIV antibody test , but should ask for the purpose of the blood test to be entered in their medical records . |
| 10 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 11 | So the search is on for an acceptable new arrangement for increased French involvement in the military affairs of the alliance . |
| 12 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 13 | And Adam Hinton , the photographer , called on for an impartial view , agrees — blast him . |
| 14 | He was informed that he would have to sign on for an extra year to join the guards , but he told his mother , ‘ I 'll stay as long as I choose . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
| 16 | In homes across the States millions of Americans were switching on for an evening 's viewing . |
| 17 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 18 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
| 19 | Intel 's Michael Pope said the the AST Manhattan was spot on for an emerging market for what he termed shrink wrapped servers — application server sold with pre-installed operating system and database software . |
| 20 | so you 've turned your kilow three kilowatt heater on for an hour and I 'm gon na charge you , le let's say , thirty pence . |
| 21 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 22 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 23 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 24 | One of these latter patients ( no 13 ) was operated on for an obstructive small bowel relapse and in this patient , as in the two others , gastroscopy and chest computed tomography showed both lung and gastric recurrences . |
| 25 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 26 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 27 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 28 | she can get on for an hour |
| 29 | It 's on for an hour . |
| 30 | I do n't I I do n't catch it every night , it 's on for an hour is n't it ? |