Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Moynihan should even now be pressing the football authorities to cast around for an island where The Problem can be contained . |
| 2 | It was n't only the seeds of oats ; the cornfields usually contained quantities of weeds like chickweed , spurrey and charlock and it was on all these that the skylarks , twite and rock doves fattened up for the coming winter . |
| 3 | They had the car lights switched off for a while . |
| 4 | We compared the incidence in the study areas with national data using the following sources : for childhood cancer , data from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours for 1969–87 ; for young people aged 15–24 , cancer registration statistics for England and Wales for 1971–86 , though these data were not subjected to the review processes carried out for the specialist registries ; for leukaemias and lymphomas in those aged 25–74 , data from the data collection study covering about one third of the population of England and Wales . |
| 5 | TELEVISION viewers in the south may soon be seeing advertisements for undertakers , as funeral directors gear up for an increasingly competitive and high-profile market . |
| 6 | ‘ On the new album I went to extremes , and for each song I had two or three complete lead breaks worked out for every solo , prior to actually going in to make the album . |
| 7 | Crowds waited outside the venue to catch a glimpse of pop stars turning up for the awards ceremony , being televised on ITV by Carlton tonight . |
| 8 | As the ground rises up to tap Sly gently on the bonce , CWD henchmen drop in for a quick cuppa … well they actually want to blow his brains out but I was being polite . |
| 9 | I looked hungrily around , drinking in the sights of London : the beaver hats , lined with green velvet , of the wealthy merchants , the shabby caps of the artisans and , above all , the ornate head-dresses covered in clouds of gauze of the court ladies stepping out for a morning 's shopping . |
| 10 | A record number of Guinness pensioners turned out for the annual pensioners ' party at Park Royal this month — almost 1,000 descended on the brewery grounds to remenisce about their lives in the brewery . |
| 11 | The huge ammunition wagons set off for the crossroads , their massive iron-rimmed wheels digging great gouges into the road 's surface . |
| 12 | She will have spent the last 30 years of their marriage sitting in the passenger seat of the car which she is still unable to drive , disappearing into the kitchen when his climbing friends call round for a beer , and laughing dutifully at his mountain anecdotes over a dinner she has made for his boss . |
| 13 | He set out a four-point plan , commencing with Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions and withdrawal from Kuwait ; the international community could then guarantee the removal of forces , and the restoration of Kuwaiti sovereignty , with arrangements to take account of " the will of the Kuwaiti people " ; an international conference should then be arranged , and comprehensive arms reductions worked out for the whole Middle East region , which would imply dialogue among all concerned , to replace confrontation with " the dynamics of good neighbourliness " . |
| 14 | Signs , know your traffic signs , right , signals , give signal , give signals if they would help or warn other road users watch out for the signals of other drivers and motor cyclists or pedal cyclists and take necessary action from them . |
| 15 | As major appliance makers gear up for an expected world market for ‘ green ’ refrigerators , FORON is the first to offer a fridge completely free of so-called chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) . |
| 16 | Residents are urged to be very careful about food scraps put out for the birds . |
| 17 | BREAKFAST listeners were left in silence when two radio presenters nipped off for a coffee during the news — and got locked out of the studio . |
| 18 | He was hustled away by some of the extra police officers drafted in for the case . |
| 19 | They therefore wanted information items to spell out for the workers what would and would not be appropriate action to take . |
| 20 | There were at least two world champions lining up for the start and many seasoned and experienced drivers . |
| 21 | The heating pipes coming through for the the central heating and the hot water . |
| 22 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 23 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 24 | We 'd get Cypriot narcotics cops stopping by for a free cup of coffee or to make a call to their relatives in England on Uncle Sam 's nickel . |
| 25 | When , in 1916 , pacifist thinkers cast around for an alternative power which claimed to represent the universal interests of mankind , their eyes turned to the United States . |
| 26 | I said to you you got ta get these Christmas presents wrapped up for the party . |
| 27 | But the attitude of women content to stay in their middle-level comfort zones came in for a lot too — not only from a male chief executive who had seen one of his recruits retreat from the fast track , but from senior female executives as well who felt women ‘ should take their share of responsibility for low applications for senior jobs . ’ |