Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death or injury lies in wait for the imprudent in Brobdingnagian chasms below . |
| 2 | By the time ‘ taking stock ’ is occurring in preparation for the annual report to parents , priorities are being considered for next year 's Plan . |
| 3 | Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest . |
| 4 | As a juvenile romanticist Kingston , like his contemporary Ballantyne , used the device of the intrusive author accepted in his time and , besides , the didacticism expected in books for the young , didacticism made easier by the continuity and the extent of time afforded by serial publication in the boys ' magazines of the period . |
| 5 | Physical gratification often plays a contributing role in the exercise of persuasion : what does the marketing manager expect in return for the expensive lunch she 's buying you ? |
| 6 | Earlier , permissive legislation had already enabled some authorities to innovate in services for the disabled . |
| 7 | ‘ Bulk ’ causes all data contained in LIFESPAN for the specified type to be transferred ; |
| 8 | Nearly six years since Mr Gorbachev came to power , it is still unclear what sort of future he has in mind for the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 10 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 11 | MEL is part of the Philips group , and its contender is heavily based on a radar known as Smart which another Philips company is developing in Holland for the Dutch Navy . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 13 | A ‘ European ’ car , for instance , would be designed and built in Britain for the local mass market , but also exported as a niche product to Japan and America . |
| 14 | Life-long love of badgers culminates in nursery for the sick and orphaned A NURSERY for the injured and orphaned is still awaiting its first patient several weeks after opening which is good news , say organisers . |
| 15 | In the latest poll , support in Brescia for the Socialist Unity Party ( PUS-formerly the PSI ) fell from 15.5 per cent to 10.3 per cent . |
| 16 | A report prepared in January for the French prime minister 's office by Jean-Pierre Desgeorges , president of GEC Alsthom NV , says approximately 2.1m tons of electronic and electrical products will enter the waste stream ‘ in the medium term . |
| 17 | Minton had returned from Jamaica with several pairs of shoes , made in Manchester for the Jamaican market , and a host of ideas . |
| 18 | Two weeks before the end of her trial , Winnie Mandela experienced what commentators treated as a major political setback when she was heavily defeated in elections for the national presidency of the ANC women 's league , which she had earlier been expected to win unchallenged . |
| 19 | He says even though his company as been operating in Spain for the past 10 years , it has found it difficult to establish a market there . |
| 20 | we 've come , we 've had to make at previous meetings , Chairman , about the er , about the fall off we 've had in demand for the small units there now . |
| 21 | Whatever has gone wrong , it was all our fault , but we are trapped in helplessness , and as we contemplate the dull ruins of the fabric of our lives in the light that shines from our visions of what might have been , our ‘ real ’ life seems messier and drabber , and we weep in self-pity for the golden afternoons that never were ours . |
| 22 | The decision will be made in early May and the cards produced in time for the major summer shows in Wales . |
| 23 | The decision will be made in early May and the cards produced in time for the major summer shows in Wales . |
| 24 | Morrison only completed some light running in the morning session at the army camp on a pitch which could have doubled as a minefield such were the undulations and mini-lagoons lying in wait for the unsuspecting . |
| 25 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 26 | It has been postulated that the 2-fold rotational symmetry of this homotypic interaction is preserved in evolution for the heterotypic interaction between CD2 and LFA-3 . |
| 27 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 28 | Each year Zuwaya moved between the northern coastal strip of semi-desert ( where they arrived in spring for the early pasture ) and the oases of the central Sahara . |
| 29 | The proceeds are used in part for the medical care of patients affected by air pollution ( Wetstone and Rozencranz , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |