Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lifetime 's dream has come true for an ardent suitor . |
| 2 | Even the Tech , which has trumpeted the fact that it has pushed hard for a greater training element , has only been enabl able to include such elements as health and safety , job search , an enhancement of skills relevant to the job that is being done . |
| 3 | For the growing number of northern Europeans who wish to spend their expanding leisure time in warmer climates , public transport has replaced private for the weekly retreat to the country . |
| 4 | As such , an oppression of women that is not in any essentialist sense pre-given by the logic of capitalist development has become necessary for the ongoing reproduction of the mode of production in its present form . |
| 5 | Advertising by manufacturers has become notorious for the extravagant but contractually ineffective commendation of goods . |
| 6 | This farming systems has proved self-sustainable for the past 2,000 years and has altered little except that summer ( wet season ) rice crops were once combined in the same fields with winter ( dry season ) legumes , whereas the winter crop is now wheat . |
| 7 | If , however , you find that time has run short for the last answer , the best course is to reduce the answer to bare note form , using as many key headings as possible and abbreviating freely . |
| 8 | Organisers tried to make good for the last minute defection of many major galleries , including the leading Paris furniture specialists , with provincial French replacements , and the quality of goods was often far from top rate . |
| 9 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 10 | The intelligentsia came to feel responsible for the Russian economy . |
| 11 | Well we have n't got to go long for the shortest day . |
| 12 | Would you like to borrow Nutty for a few weeks ? |
| 13 | It was beginning to look ominous for the Light Blues , as the final bend favoured Oxford . |
| 14 | Miranda began to feel curious for a closer look . |
| 15 | Certainly , a successful coup would have offered potential for a dangerous new version of a ‘ stab-in-the-back ’ legend . |
| 16 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 17 | With infinite delicacy forget-me-nots and rosebuds , croci and oak leaves are chiselled out of native lime ( grown in the grounds of the palace itself ) and slotted into ancient floral compositions which , but for a discarded cigarette in the grace and favour flats above , could perhaps have remained undisturbed for the next 300 years . |
| 18 | Having already paid for my return ticket I was cross at having to buy another one , and even more upset at having to pay extra for the one-way ticket and convert sterling at an unfavourable rate . |
| 19 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 20 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |
| 21 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 22 | Of , one of the words that she was talking about , people have started using wicked for a normal phrase . |
| 23 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 24 | The Board , he pointed out , had met monthly for the past two years , and controlled the work of the College . |
| 25 | He was conscious on admission , explained he had felt unwell for the last few days and had intended seeing a doctor today . |
| 26 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 27 | Er there 's a sense also in which memories may not be an individual phenomenon but may be a collective phenomena and if you listen to families reminiscing about things or people who 've know each-other for a long time reminiscing about things , different people supply different details , they contradict one-another , they erm fill things in , they say no it ca n't have been then because um because that was the Christmas when Uncle Sydney had his kidney stones and um y'know stuff like that . |
| 28 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 29 | By 1916 Rasputin 's influence at court had become intolerable for the old guard Russian aristocracy . |
| 30 | He had been boxing in South Africa for three years and , according to boxing historian Gilbert Odd , had remained unbeaten for the first two years ( 1978 , pp.18–19 ) . |