Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [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 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 4 | For some icing work , it is possible to make a small disposable bag out of a cone of non-stick paper , snipping off the very tip for a tiny nozzle ( see page 22 for details ) . |
| 5 | With planning consent now received for an improved access for the physically handicapped and an extension to provide a parish office and toilet for the disabled , tenders will shortly be invited for the building works . |
| 6 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 9 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 10 | Even allowing for the technical adjustment for repayments to the national loans fund that is mentioned in the footnote , that is a depressing story . |
| 11 | This inhibition can be reversed by IL-6 , a cytokine which has been implicated as a positive factor for mucosal IgA production . |
| 12 | Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus . |
| 13 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |
| 14 | A date was arranged for the following week for both events and I agreed to go with them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Japan was not unique in the problems faced by her rural population , but her attempts to search for an external outlet for domestic discontent were unusually vigorous . |
| 17 | What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems . |
| 18 | In June 's Tropical Answers D Benton asked about an antisyphoning device for his external filter . |
| 19 | The English which is to be formulated as the major instrument for achieving the more general policy goals turns out to consist of systematic inculcation of linguistic practices , firmly aligned to a very specific sense of Englishness . |
| 20 | Suppose a Royal Society of Building were formed as the professional home for all the professionals involved in building . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This type of triplet repeat was recently recognized as the molecular basis for an unusual mutation mechanism that leads to amplification of the triplets , which can it turn to disease , such as fragile-X-syndrome or myotonic dystrophy ( reviewed in [ 24 ] ) . |
| 23 | Fighting as ‘ Little Chocolate ’ , his campaign in England culminated in his winning the world bantamweight title by stopping Englishman Nunc Wallace in eighteen rounds of a contest at the Pelican Club , London , in 1890 ( though he had informally been recognized as the premier bantamweight for some years before ) . |
| 24 | Such an attitude is , of course , typical of the ‘ oral personality ’ , as classically defined in the annals of psychoanalysis , and I think it is no coincidence that anorexics , who are almost invariably subject to heavily competitive pressures , should choose eating as the focal point for expressing the resulting conflicts . |
| 25 | She had died at Osborne and the royal yacht Alberta , with an escort of eight torpedo-boat destroyers , carried her to the mainland where she was reverently placed aboard the royal train for London . |
| 26 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 27 | ‘ He had wanted to be a doctor since he asked for a medical bag for Christmas when he was six-years-old . |
| 28 | It was probably unconnected , but the superintendent nurse asked for an extra scrubber for the male side , and the temporary appointment was approved . |
| 29 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 30 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |