Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 2 | Advising fans to sit tight for an eleventh hour opportunity to snap up tickets , Mr Mullan said he was ‘ reasonably confident ’ that a few hundred tickets would be sent back to Derry from other county boards unable to use them . |
| 3 | It was beginning to look ominous for the Light Blues , as the final bend favoured Oxford . |
| 4 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 5 | Well we have n't got to go long for the shortest day . |
| 6 | Moreover , the present study indicated that the syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with a necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a tendency to remain increased for a longer time than the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis . |
| 7 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 8 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |
| 9 | Having already paid for my return ticket I was cross at having to buy another one , and even more upset at having to pay extra for the one-way ticket and convert sterling at an unfavourable rate . |
| 10 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 11 | We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth . |
| 12 | ‘ We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth . |
| 13 | Palmerston replied that he was glad to have the assurance of ‘ trained men of science and judgement ’ , and although he felt that Gothic might be suitable in the country , he was determined to have Italian for the present purpose . |
| 14 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |
| 15 | Now we have to get ready for the New Year . |
| 16 | That 's the trouble with though she did n't stop every time to get ready for the next scene . |
| 17 | Soon it 's time for the cyclists to get ready for the next stage of their 1,500 mile journey . |
| 18 | Would you like to borrow Nutty for a few weeks ? |
| 19 | She was n't likely to become enchanted for the second time this evening — her common sense would see to that . |
| 20 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 21 | Miranda began to feel curious for a closer look . |
| 22 | Organisers tried to make good for the last minute defection of many major galleries , including the leading Paris furniture specialists , with provincial French replacements , and the quality of goods was often far from top rate . |
| 23 | The intelligentsia came to feel responsible for the Russian economy . |
| 24 | If such exercises are repeated quickly enough to cause you to become breathless for a prolonged period , you will be building stamina too . |