Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 2 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 3 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 4 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 5 | This inhibition can be reversed by IL-6 , a cytokine which has been implicated as a positive factor for mucosal IgA production . |
| 6 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |
| 7 | In order to search for a possible role for NCp7 during reverse transcription , we examined the ability of NCp7 to facilitate the annealing of complementary DNA and RNA strands . |
| 8 | Although it was quite usual for sons to follow fathers into the printing trade , the presence of so many sisters suggests that composing was quickly recognized as a good opening for a girl . |
| 9 | ‘ He had wanted to be a doctor since he asked for a medical bag for Christmas when he was six-years-old . |
| 10 | It may , at the time when it was built , have been intended as a final resting-place for the priestesses of the Knossos Labyrinth , rather than , as is often assumed , for the Knossian kings . |
| 11 | They are intended as a general guide for applicants . |
| 12 | ‘ Support ’ in the Act is not intended as a universal service for all , but one selectively applied to ‘ children in need ’ . |
| 13 | The second is ‘ Welcome the Asian Games ’ , the international event scheduled long ago for September 1990 which the authorities both welcome as an opportunity to demonstrate normality and fear as a possible platform for dissident protest . |
| 14 | Green also anxiously records bouts of measles , his youngest son Thomas having fits as a baby , and Joshua being troubled with erysipelas , which made for a tiring journey for him back to Keswick . |
| 15 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 16 | Another point to be taken into consideration is that grants are only made to applicants whose homes are below a certain rateable value , which varies in different areas of the country , and that , when the work is completed , the home must be regarded as a suitable dwelling for occupation for at least another thirty years . |
| 17 | Presumably men of modest means would scarcely have qualified , but only 502 were worth £20 and upwards , and 406 had £40 or more , a figure that might be regarded as a reasonable minimum for a substantial businessman . |
| 18 | Permission must be obtained to travel by car along the private road in Glen Farrar and , if granted , should be regarded as a great privilege for there is loveliness all the way to its terminus at Loch Monar , now a reservoir . |
| 19 | The king 's next relapse resulted in permanent disability ; this was regarded as a divine punishment for his early excesses . |
| 20 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
| 21 | The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee . |
| 22 | Unfavourable mention in Which ? is regarded as a major problem for well-known manufacturers . |
| 23 | was regarded as a good model for further investigation . |
| 24 | What I think was true was that the Falklands was not regarded as a front-line issue for some period of time , and indeed the forecast was that it would n't really boil up again until August or thereabouts in 1982 . |
| 25 | McCauley and Swisher ( 1984 ) recommend that 100 be regarded as a minimum number for an adequate sample . |
| 26 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 27 | Automatic accruer is perhaps more commonly used by professional partnerships ( and has the practical advantage of not being dependent upon compliance with a prescribed timetable ) but there is considerable uncertainty as to whether such an arrangement should be regarded as a binding contract for the sale and purchase of the partnership share so as to take its value outside the scope of business property relief for the purposes of Inheritance Tax ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 28 | In what is regarded as a make-or-break move for his political career , Mr Lamont will set out to demonstrate a clear route out of recession while underlining the Government 's clamp on public spending . |
| 29 | It was clear from the responses of other staff members that the science department 's experience in this area was regarded as a valuable springboard for wider developments across the curriculum . |
| 30 | The outcome was widely regarded as a considerable rebuff for Rhee and a weakening of his position , underlined by the number of successful independents . |