Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 2 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , yesterday said ‘ the report shows we are better placed for a major advance than some have suggested ’ . |
| 3 | This was all designed for a specific purpose . |
| 4 | d ) any other Question necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded ; and on a Motion so made for a new Clause or a new Schedule , the Chairman or Mr. Speaker shall put only the Question that the Clause or Schedule be added to the Bill . |
| 5 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 6 | The scene was all set for a pitched battle . |
| 7 | Environmentalists , who have long campaigned for a single agency , have expressed their concern that the plans for the reform of the Inspectorate amount to little more than political opportunism and will have little real impact . |
| 8 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 9 | My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total . |
| 10 | At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation . |
| 11 | Elliptically relating this " philosophical task " to academic philosophy ( including the history of philosophy ) , he declared himself to be better qualified for a philosophical chair than a purely philological one . |
| 12 | Not painted for a specific location and comprising canvases of different dimensions , the frieze was a pool of images from which Munch made withdrawals for sale , replacing the pictures which he had plundered with new versions of the same composition . |
| 13 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 14 | There is , however , a torque which may be easily calculated for a rectangular loop . |
| 15 | Hereford and Worcester has already voted for a similar ban , Northamptonshire 's decision only has to go to the full council , and Gloucestershire votes next week . |
| 16 | People asked exoneration from a mistake made by a group to which they belonged-the nation-not in individual innocence but in membership of a different and more immediate community that had acted well , a state that had not voted for a dishonest president . |
| 17 | An account of the study and its main findings is separately written for a termly evaluation newsletter which is distributed to all staff . |
| 18 | No , they 're not made for a tall man er , you know my |
| 19 | The CSIRO has just applied for a worldwide patent for its use as a fumigant . |
| 20 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 21 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 22 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 23 | Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other . |
| 24 | The Wightman Cup is no longer shown for a similar reason . |
| 25 | ( 6.3 ) unc One can change the name of a bound variable , provided the new name is not already used for a free variable . |
| 26 | Judging the tension in the runners is difficult for someone who does n't drive a sled , and the lashings are probably best left easily untied for a final adjustment by the user . |
| 27 | Thus , how Gorbachev finally called for a free market , free elections and freedom from the Soviet Republics that want to leave the Union . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 29 | Pearl has the unenviable reputation of being one of the more sleepy members within a sector not noted for a dynamic approach . |
| 30 | As evidence they would point to the government 's growing practice of giving funds already allocated for a specific purpose : for example , the £1 million contribution to the Royal Opera redevelopment decided by Lord Donaldson , Minister for the Arts 1976–79 , or the Enhancement Funding Scheme , introduced in 1991 to stimulate private sponsorship . |