Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one recent enquiry into the electricity supply industry , Lord Wilberforce asked the Treasury to submit a memorandum on the significance of the dispute to the interests of the national economy and the Treasury responded with a document that argued for a progressive and substantial reduction in the levels of settlements . |
| 2 | They also adopted a political declaration that called for a socialist and ‘ planned-market ’ economy instead of President Boris Yeltsin 's free-market reforms . |
| 3 | It was a bit like sitting very quietly in a forest and waiting for a rare and timid wild animal to come out . |
| 4 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |
| 5 | b , Mature males have a higher mortality when searching for a female than on a female 's web . |