Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The driver launches forward for a narrow escape .
2 Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry .
3 As one seminar is brought to conclusion plans forge ahead for the next and 1992 is no exception .
4 They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Spared that sort of indignity , the 22 horses and riders approached individually for a staggered start .
8 It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young .
9 Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places .
10 It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time .
11 Hard , they say , to be too overawed by a character like Cage , whose music includes Roaratorios and a piece composed solely for the white keys on the piano .
12 There 's a club meeting here for a social weekend — I think they like to keep their places warm here for when coarse fishing starts again .
13 As seen in Chapter 3 , this was also true in the nineteenth century , despite lower clergy support particularly for the Fenian movement .
14 Richard turned left for the underground , Martin hailed a taxi .
15 International : Iran election feeds debate on ‘ Islamic solution ’ Iranians vote today for the first time since Khomeini died .
16 For the areas in our study there was a high degree of completeness of ascertainment from 1968 onwards for children aged 0–14 because these areas are included in the data collected prospectively for the Northern Region Children 's Malignant Disease Registry and all these cases were included in the National Registry of Childhood Tumours .
17 With the slope in their favour and the wind at their backs , Hammer pressed hard for an early goal to unsettle the favourites .
18 Hacker put the match beyond doubt two minutes after the interval with his second strike , although Jeremy Fry in the Welsh goal was called upon to make two smart saves before , in the last minute , Mark Lewis , one of only two home-based Welsh players in the side , sent Antony Colclough away for the final goal .
19 Bryn 's mouth worked silently for a few seconds .
20 Its mouth curled upwards for the first time .
21 It is a truism that schools exist primarily for the personal development of pupils .
22 Erm I I look forward to hearing Mr 's views on on this particular matter given that he was the or or the department was was responsible for for in a sense prolonging the discussion to consider the breakdown of locations and as to whether he feels that there is sufficient technical information available on all of the sectors should a recommendation come forward for a particular sector from from the panel .
23 Under the 1975 Constitution , legislative power was vested in the 40-member National Assembly indirectly elected for a five-year term , executive power was vested in a President elected indirectly for a five-year term , and the Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP ) was the sole legal political party .
24 An authority is justified , according to the normal justification thesis , if it is more likely than its subjects to act correctly for the right reasons .
25 As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests .
26 That report was sent to our national executive committee and on May the nineteenth the leader of the Labour party stated and I quote , the plant committee concludes that different elected bodies can be chosen by different electoral systems , that is the view which I share and I support the proposals made both for a reformed second chamber and the European parliament .
27 Thus the reasons put forward for the present rule are first , that it preserves the constitutional proprieties leaving Parliament to legislate in words and the courts ( not Parliamentary speakers ) , to construe the meaning of the words finally enacted ; second , the practical difficulty of the expense of researching Parliamentary material which would arise if the material could be looked at ; third , the need for the citizen to have access to a known defined text which regulates his legal rights ; fourth , the improbability of finding helpful guidance from Hansard .
28 The wholesale slaughter of these magnificent animals by poachers has been averted to a considerable degree since embargoes have been placed on the exportation of their skins and on products manufactured locally for the Indian tourist industry , such as briefcases , wallets , belts and handbags .
29 This may be because of the built-in didactic nature of any story written specifically for the young .
30 The boy fought wildly for a few seconds but then his right arm was bent back behind him until he called out in the most desperate agony he had ever known .
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