Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan was not unique in the problems faced by her rural population , but her attempts to search for an external outlet for domestic discontent were unusually vigorous . |
| 2 | Charlotte clamped her eyes shut for an instant to stave off frustration . |
| 3 | It was significant that when the International Revolutionary Socialists had held their conference of April 1916 in Switzerland , barely any of the French Socialists voiced support for their resolutions calling for an immediate peace . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the people of Gondar , Wollo , Tigre and Eritrea sit in their shelters waiting for an indifferent world to decide their fate . |
| 5 | Probably an amalgam of two mass-circulation papers The New York Herald and The Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer ( edited by James Gordon Bennett and Colonel Watson Webb respectively ) : both papers attacked CD in the most scurrilous fashion after his speeches calling for an International Copyright Agreement . |
| 6 | His Petersburg counts for an awful lot . |