Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buy a 944 — or wait for the forthcoming 968 . |
| 2 | The arches , columns , and huge statuary of the exterior prepared the traveller or sightseer for the vast vaulted concourse and waiting-room within . |
| 3 | Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared . |
| 4 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 5 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 6 | Bowers , for example , reviews research indicating that speed falls from 55 to 45 km/h in such zones , with the associated implication that speeds for the fastest 15 per cent of drivers would be above 50 to 55 km/h . |
| 7 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 8 | Latterly flying as the flagship of Australian TV comedian Norman Gunston , the aircraft had been a familiar sight at Bankstown and , although grounded for the last ten years , had remained substantially complete . |
| 9 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 10 | The national data computed for Japan ( 1979–1980 ) and that combined for the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) and Hungary ( 1976–80 ) show minimum risks of a still birth at the second birth order for women aged 25–44 years . |
| 11 | During January , six planets are visiting your sign , so to say that life 's likely to be busy , fun and demanding for the next few months is an understatement . |
| 12 | So why not make things hard for yourself and send for the full Just Desks catalogue or call in at our showrooms and see everything else we can offer you . |
| 13 | For the school library , through books , films , recordings , and other materials , goes beyond the requirements of the instructional program , and unfolds for the many private quests of children and young people the imagination of mankind . |
| 14 | ALWAYS known by his initials , J.P.M.Millar for more than 40 years ran the National Council of Labour Colleges ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour movement . |
| 15 | ALWAYS known by his initials , JPM Millar ran the National Council of Labour Colleges for over 40 years ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour Movement . |
| 16 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 17 | Jack was a native of Crook in County Durham and played for the local amateur side as a junior before signing for Newcastle at the age of 17 . |
| 18 | Effective school management uses external initiatives as a prompt to and support for the logical next stage of a school 's development . |
| 19 | Among the masters the move to destroy unions spread ; and support for the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union , not yet fully organised and unable to sustain its members through the ensuing series of strikes and lock-outs , rapidly faded away . |
| 20 | Thus because there are stomach muscles which operate vertically , diagonally and horizontally , complex bending and twisting movements are possible , and support for the vital abdominal organs is provided . |
| 21 | Mention was also made of the importance of reliable economic data , for private capital to become the principal source of external finance and support for the proposed European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 22 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 23 | SHORT , SWEET AND RELAXING For the busy professional , weekend breaks may be more feasible than longer holidays . |
| 24 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 25 | The old red brick police station was the site of the village lock-up until 1849 , when it was enlarged and used for the monthly petty sessions until 1899 . |
| 26 | Something similar has started appearing on British television , so if they have to be shown surely the details could be kept to a minimum and shown for the shortest possible time . |
| 27 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 28 | That leaves mothers , children and older people behind in the mad scramble for the doors when the bus arrives , to stand packed together jolted and elbowed for the long slow journeys . |
| 29 | I detest the economist Ramón Tamames , who condemns the broken engagement between the two multinationals MOMA and MNCARS ; who criticises the Reina Sofía 's ‘ weird ultra-avantgarde artistic creations ’ and yearns for the musty progressive reproductions of ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 30 | After all , private-sector returns have been above 5% and rising for the past five years . |