Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |
| 2 | Pensions are usually compared by converting the annual pension paid to an average earner into ecu , using ‘ purchasing power parity ’ to accommodate for the various costs of living in each country . |
| 3 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 4 | In those places where there is a delay in substantiation , faith is prepared to wait for a long time at the bar of history . |
| 5 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 6 | However , he went on to say that the acceptance of the existence of Communist China did not mean that Taiwan had abandoned its " one-China policy " and that the country was prepared to wait for a positive response to its proposals for unification on the basis of liberal democratic policies . |
| 7 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 8 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 9 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 10 | The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate . |
| 11 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 12 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 13 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 14 | The contras ' new military commander , Israel Galeano ( who replaced Enrique Bermúdez , the organization 's nominal head , in early February ) , said , however , that the contras intended to wait for the formal handover of power before disbanding . |
| 15 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 16 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 17 | I am just not prepared to wait for the green shoots of recovery . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Chirac seems to want to wait for the presidential election in 1995 . |
| 19 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 20 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 21 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 22 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 23 | With VAT on fuel bills scheduled for 1994 and 1995 , the strategy is beginning to shape up as one aimed at allowing the Conservatives to go for a tax-cutting Budget in 1996 or 1997 in an attempt to win back ground in the run-up to the election . |
| 24 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 25 | The princess , patron of the Northern Ballet , told stars of the company 's production they had been brave to go for a modern version of the Tchaikovsky classic . |
| 26 | Erm again I , I ca n't help but s er er getting slightly digressed but it is rather interesting that John Major this year decided to go for a general election before the local elections . |
| 27 | A nicely placed observer speculates that if Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture , does well with the Destiny desktop operating system , that that will convince Novell chief Ray Noorda to go for a bigger piece of USL : he already owns the largest outside share . |
| 28 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 29 | An electrical equipment manufacturer , for example , might decide to go for a fully-fitted kitchen including all their own appliances as the top prize , with a small number of runners-up receiving a toaster or sandwich maker . |
| 30 | ‘ You might be able to go for a short walk in a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |