Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the time approached for me to concentrate on my matriculation , I decided to offer Charlie the opportunity to buy out my share of the partnership and even arranged for a qualified accountant to replace me in order that they could take over the book-keeping . |
| 2 | When recession struck the oil-pumping south-west in the 1980s , thrifts in Texas and elsewhere pleaded for a relaxation of capital standards to help them grow out of trouble . |
| 3 | An infant suspected of having pyloric stenosis would usually be assessed by a house officer in the casualty department and then referred for a surgical consultation . |
| 4 | The herbs must be in the best possible condition and generously used for a good refreshing taste . |
| 5 | But for himself he disliked coincidence of any sort and always sought for a logical answer . |
| 6 | But against their gross revenues and then standardized for a person earning $15,000 per annum this represented only $96 . |
| 7 | After two days , Beattie 's trial was adjourned for eighteen days and then resumed for a further three days . |
| 8 | Some of these men had been posing as caravan holiday makers for some weeks and now settled for a long , cold night on the clifftops . |
| 9 | After the Law Society Finals she served articles in private practice in Cambridge and then worked for a year as a litigation assistant in a branch office of a Suffolk firm in Mildenhall . |
| 10 | There is a distinction between an article created as a one-off work of art and something made as a practical , utilitarian object and perhaps destined for a production line . |
| 11 | According to the evidence at the trial , only Zaidie bore witness to the defendant 's telephoned confession , but the defence might have promoted a viable theory of conspiracy if they had been able to show that Matadial had also testified to a confession , then resiled from it in her deposition , taken the offensive again in her addendum and finally opted for a female voice in her evidence . |
| 12 | Then they started signing autographs and even posed for a photograph with pub regular Frank Gait . |
| 13 | Apart from programs designed for vertical markets or specially written for a particular job , most of the products you 'll find are ‘ pen aware ’ which means they can recognize a pen as both a mouse and an input device , but do n't have any other facilities to take advantage of the pen . |
| 14 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Long hair has been gently backcombed at the crown and softly curled for a natural effect . |
| 17 | Cyril Bleasdale , director of ScotRail , and other senior managers who will meet the minister are optimistic that the figures will boost their case as well placed for a move to the private sector . |