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 | The number of jobless in Britain rose in April for the 13th consecutive month , bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6% . |
| 7 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 8 | We stopped in Backnong for the last time to do our souvenir shopping then at lunch time started to make our way to Trier , the most westerly town in Germany . |
| 9 | Earlier , permissive legislation had already enabled some authorities to innovate in services for the disabled . |
| 10 | ‘ Bulk ’ causes all data contained in LIFESPAN for the specified type to be transferred ; |
| 11 | Tickets may be booked in advance for the LAST EVENING PERFORMANCES , LATE NIGHTS and WEEKENDS on the basis of payment at the time of booking . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 16 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 17 | The exhibition , running until 27 June , comprises 130 items from French and Spanish collections including vessels carved in semiprecious stones and mounted in enamelled and jewelled gold , from the ‘ tresor ’ of the Grand Dauphin , presented in France for the first time since the eighteenth century , and works by French painters such as Michel-Ange Houasse , Louis-Michel Van Loo and Jean Ranc and sculptors Rene Fremin and Jean Thierry , who were commissioned by Philip to decorate his palaces . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 19 | In 1947 the Methodist Conference met in Portadown for the first time . |
| 20 | Any spontaneous pull to which he yields ( for example , a proneness due to laziness to exaggerate the difficulty of getting things done in time for the earlier flight ) will merely bias his judgement ; in the pure choice of means you either choose rationally or surrender to the spontaneous . |
| 21 | That necessary ditching , in all likelihood , will now be done in time for the next election . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | PETER SCHMEICHEL arrives in London for the first time this season convinced Manchester United can become the first Premier League champions . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If Clinton is to keep faith with the electors , he will invest in jobs for the 10 million on the dole , provide for wide-ranging health care for all and implement drastic tax reforms . |