Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 2 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 3 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 4 | Such ensembles were not merely gathered together for the occasional ballet ; there were , in fact , three standing oboe bands at court , or , more accurately , three ensembles whose members played the oboe much of the time . |
| 5 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 6 | The member States had joined together for the collective achievement of this common purpose which demanded concerted action . |
| 7 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
| 8 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 9 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 10 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 11 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 12 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 13 | College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day strike and a total ban on flexible working over pay , the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education announced yesterday . |
| 14 | Westwood offers an account of how the structures of gender , ethnicity and class fit together for a specific group of women workers . |
| 15 | That two dozen of these interiors are in buildings statutorily ‘ listed ’ for their special architectural or historic interest say much for the low regard paid to pubs in the exercise of listed building control and indeed for the listing process itself . |
| 16 | Colours can of course be mixed together for an infinite variety of results . |
| 17 | Artcare only use quality nylon zips , each of which has been designed especially for a particular portfolio ; and only square arch mechanisms are used making presentation much neater . |
| 18 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 20 | He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good . |
| 21 | It 's light , comfortable , and worn over a T-shirt , or even next to the skin , warm enough for the Scottish summer without making you sweat to death . |
| 22 | For more recipe ideas send away for a free booklet to ‘ Salads through the seasons ’ |
| 23 | Some of the early structure plans were extraordinarily ambitious in their scope : land use plans promised just for a little while to become all-embracing social , economic and ‘ physical ’ documents , with a further clear relationship to transportation matters . |
| 24 | Spared that sort of indignity , the 22 horses and riders approached individually for a staggered start . |
| 25 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 26 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 27 | After pulling on her clothes , she headed downstairs for the perfunctory glass of orange-juice which served as breakfast . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 29 | In second place Frank Emmelmann had to be at his very best as Linford Christie charged home for the British team , pushed all the way by Bruno Marie-Rose and Stefano Tilli , but the East German held on well as Linford was given the fastest ‘ anchor ’ split of 9.1 . |
| 30 | Five years ago , increasingly concerned about the environment , he decided to work directly for an environmental group . |