Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun sg] 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 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Bulk ’ causes all data contained in LIFESPAN for the specified type to be transferred ; |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That necessary ditching , in all likelihood , will now be done in time for the next election . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The decision will be made in early May and the cards produced in time for the major summer shows in Wales . |
| 18 | The decision will be made in early May and the cards produced in time for the major summer shows in Wales . |
| 19 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Tambo arrived in time for the first consultative conference of the movement for 31 years , an event which provided an opportunity for the ANC to clarify its policy of negotiation with the government . |
| 24 | Ruth paid in advance for the first night . |
| 25 | The proceeds are used in part for the medical care of patients affected by air pollution ( Wetstone and Rozencranz , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | This elaborate state structure , providing in principle for the greatest possible degree of local self-government , was none the less based upon the principle of democratic centralism which meant that , in the last resort , central decisions could be imposed upon levels of government below them . |
| 27 | I am soaked , cold and not a little lacking in enthusiasm for the next try . |
| 28 | In the ‘ worst case scenario , ’ say MAFF and DoE , ‘ it is possible that most of the Anglian region would have to be declared a water protection zone as well as substantial parts of Severn Trent and other areas , accounting in total for the great bulk of the UK arable protection area . ’ |
| 29 | Despite valiant efforts by our physiotherapists , my hamstring did not recover in time for the 200 metres . |
| 30 | It was Rush 's 287th goal in a record-breaking career and few can have been better , cancelling out Niall Quinn 's opener and leaving this fixture locked in stalemate for the third successive season . |