Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 2 | In such a climate , the ‘ If ’ poem seems a little outdated for the modern manager . |
| 3 | The prospect of a radical overhaul of US banking legislation was confirmed on Feb. 5 when the US Treasury announced proposals including the abolition of two laws dating from the 1930s which were widely blamed for the fragmented character of US banking . |
| 4 | Dr. Tolba , widely respected for the critical role played by UNIP in achieving the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion , is looking forward to the London Conference on Climate next June aimed at toughening up the Montreal guidelines . |
| 5 | From the seven candidates eventually interviewed for the vacant headmastership , Mr. Alfred Edward Daniels was appointed . |
| 6 | If that question is applied to the hard track arid gets a positive answer then it is no longer enough to go for the easy choice . |
| 7 | The tall house on Thrush Green had been but sparsely furnished for the young couple had great aspirations but little money , and most of the furniture was solid Victorian stuff given by their parents . |
| 8 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 9 | According to Fitzgerald and Sim ‘ there is not one crisis , rather a whole series , which taken together account for the parlous state of the prisons ’ ( 1992 : 5 ) . |
| 10 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 11 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 12 | So the argument that Mr Major needs only to wait for the inevitable victory , after the inevitable economic recovery , should be taken with a fistful of salt . |
| 13 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 14 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 15 | That was not enough to compensate for the oppressive opulence of the dark panelling and heavy antique furniture . |
| 16 | Many former CD voters apparently voted for the Northern League , which — with the Lombardy League as its core — won 17 per cent in the north of Italy . |
| 17 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 18 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 19 | The new ‘ Acrylix ’ brush has been especially designed for the acrylic painter to give both freedom and precision in use . |
| 20 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 21 | Only recommended for the larger pool . |
| 22 | That too is a problem , but I must say that we were much better prepared for the Inter-Continental Cup than a couple of other tournaments — that only makes our failure to qualify more disappointing . |
| 23 | But as you 've got a long wait for the next production , let's move on to the town itself . |
| 24 | We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip . |
| 25 | At each location the network provides enough support for the front-line unit to operate . |
| 26 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 27 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 28 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 29 | He writes and rewrites in long-hand , and endlessly checks for the smallest detail . |
| 30 | first the base budget , an this and return to give increase the expenditure is the five million pounds or so needed for the increased number of pupils . |