Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 2 | Within a year , in the summer of 1987 , Brannen was competing for Britain in the European Junior Championships . |
| 3 | Shankill player Cowan , the former Irish Junior number one , is no longer eligible for Junior events and welcomes the opportunity to share the team bench with the legendary Slevin , now competing for Lubeck in the German National League . |
| 4 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 5 | Some 30 hopefuls from each age group will be selected for the finals , with the players competing for places in the Under-21 matches against Scotland and Wales , and the Under-18s United Kingdom and England tournament in Scotland . |
| 6 | Neufville ran for Cambridge Harriers in South East London though she opted for competing for Jamaica in the prestigious games . |
| 7 | Despite the wealth of evidence that nuclear power can never under-price fossil fuel-generated electricity , BNFL is looking at ways of competing for supply in the open market . |
| 8 | So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee , exulting and then despairing , then exulting again . |
| 9 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 10 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 11 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 12 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 13 | On March 18 Finland applied for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 14 | Switzerland applied for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank on June 6 , 1990 . |
| 15 | The advantages to the reader are that he ‘ turns for help to the professional staff ; he learns to appreciate that his needs are not restricted by the limitations of the bookstock of one library . |
| 16 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 17 | ABA light heavyweight champion Anthony Todd , of Darlington , travels to the second of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments in Berck sur Mer hoping he 'll follow in the footsteps of Scarborough 's Paul Ingle , who qualified for Barcelona at the previous tournament in Denmark . |
| 18 | Nearer home , he is a stalwart of the chess club at his present school , Yarm School junior department , and he plays for Stokesley in the senior division of the chess league . |
| 19 | Even allowing for differences between the two surveys , it seems fairly likely that the rate of known opioid use was much higher in Wirral than Brighton during 1984 and 1985 . |
| 20 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 21 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 22 | Professor William A. Cassidy , of the University of Pittsburg , listening to Shima 's tale , resolved to search for meteorites on the other margin of Antarctica , near the US base on McMurdo Sound . |
| 23 | To search for meteorites among the dark cobbles and boulders of dolerite that abound in such areas would indeed be an unrewarding task . |
| 24 | Investors , especially the big institutions , have started to search for value outside the top 100 UK stocks . |
| 25 | No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s . |
| 26 | Texts are sometimes altered editorially for particular purposes , and in this respect , for example , you could compare Shakespeare 's play Henry V with a version of the play revised for performance in the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | Prehistorians have rationalised this recently in the absence of documentary evidence by looking for different ‘ activity areas ’ within settlements and such concepts as food processing , craft areas , food storage areas , etc. could usefully be developed for sites in the historical period . |
| 28 | The scale has been further developed for use with the elderly by McNab and Phillip ( 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Firstly , the chart parser was an existing framework , originally developed for use in the syntactic domain , but also used in other areas of the speech chain , e.g. acoustic-phonetic analysis ( Church 1983 ) It was specifically designed for automatically building a graph of possibilities , these possibilities being determined by the component knowledge sources , not by the parser . |
| 30 | For example , the spread ratio may be unity , the ratio of the contract values , the ratio of contract values adjusted for responsiveness to the general level of market prices , or the ratio of contract values weighted by some factor such as p . |