Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 2 | Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions . |
| 3 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Wirral housing committee has called for an urgent meeting with housing minister Sir George Young . |
| 5 | Mr Harrison has called for an urgent meeting with EC officials to restate the case for intervention funding which would make the yard more attractive to potential purchasers . |
| 6 | AI has called for an independent inquiry into the killings and repeatedly called for a curb on the use of firearms by the security forces . |
| 7 | The harvest service is usually a major event in the calendar for most schools with parents contributing produce for an attractive display . |
| 8 | It is difficult , therefore , to understand why Bowsher has opted for an alternative definition . |
| 9 | Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details . |
| 10 | Chester MP Gyles Brandreth has asked for an urgent meeting with new armed forces minister , Jeremy Hanley . |
| 11 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 12 | Within that static total , wine has accounted for an increasing share of total alcohol consumption and the amount of alcohol consumed in the form of spirits has fallen by 30% . |
| 13 | The American firm Cannondale produces a jacket like this ( though I did n't buy it , as it seemed designed for an American winter ! ) |
| 14 | In this sense the privileges and goods that pupils can ‘ purchase ’ with the points they earn provide for an effective degree of control . |
| 15 | Once Cash seemed destined for an early grave like his friends Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison . |
| 16 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 17 | The method is for , say , a West Indian to pretend to apply for an advertised job and then to be followed a little later by a white person applying for the same job . |
| 18 | After all , how would Ms Hamer like to work for an empty pay packet , day in and day out , like so many housewives do ? |
| 19 | Sadly I have n't got time to play right now , I 've got to split for an urgent dinner date . |
| 20 | He 's got to apply for an extended licence so we can stay open an extra hour on August Bank Holiday , that 's all . |
| 21 | This Form should be used to apply for an ordinary driving licence and for entitlement to drive Large Goods Vehicles ( LGVs ) and/or Passenger Carrying Vehicles ( PCVs ) . |
| 22 | Esther had quite as hard a time of it as Annie , one might feel , but even so , Moore 's spirited novel can be thought to settle for an anodyne poverty . |
| 23 | Interestingly , much of the psychological research is now being used to argue for an organic cause . |
| 24 | The ballet was not originally announced for the London season , but the company was persuaded to stay for an extra week and The Witch was premiered on 18 August the night before the last . |
| 25 | His report on means of achieving such a Union was adopted by the European Council at Madrid in June 1989 , when the Prime Ministers unanimously agreed to prepare for an Inter-governmental Conference on EMU , including the social dimension as an essential element . |
| 26 | He saw the opportunity to play the peace card and the moderate rearmament card at the same time , fortified by the prospect that in times of trouble the public would prefer to vote for an established Government rather than a peculiarly unknown opposition . |
| 27 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 28 | Since it would be a temporary work programme , and not a training scheme , these ‘ intermediate workers ’ would be paid the weekly rate for the job , minus the pay for the day spent searching for an alternative form of employment . |
| 29 | Banks wishing to apply for an offshore banking licence were required to provide capital of US$1,600,000 plus an annual fee of $20,000 . |
| 30 | For comparison , Toglia , Payne , Nightingale and Ceci ( 1989 ) found that the threat of taking a blood sample alone did not appear to affect overall levels of performance at list learning , face recognition for a nurse who did not in fact take a blood sample or cued recall for an earlier conversation . |