Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 2 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 3 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 4 | Its end , that is , the singular future that lies ahead for the collapsing object . |
| 5 | With these small points I 've I 've made , Lancashire region supports the report and looks forward for a wider discussion at regional and branch level . |
| 6 | For this reason , it jars oddly for an English ear to hear words like ‘ soul ’ , ‘ destiny ’ and ‘ national psyche ’ being the common currency of political discourse in Germany . |
| 7 | KEVIN COOMBS Norman Lamont arrives yesterday for the first meeting of the Cabinet since the Budget |
| 8 | Brian sits reflectively for a few moments … |
| 9 | Then she reaches nervously for a hand-rolled fag . |
| 10 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 11 | In a letter to The Scotsman , Dr Peter Sanders , the commission 's chief executive , confirms publicly for the first time that the report ‘ reveals distorted representation of children from ethnic minorities living in Glasgow , in special educational needs categories ’ . |
| 12 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 13 | Vic waits law-abidingly for the green light , then presses the accelerator hard . |
| 14 | It also takes longer for an old person to use the toilet and they may sense impatience from other residents or staff if they spend as long as they would like in a toilet . |
| 15 | It calls instead for a negotiated settlement based on two principles . |
| 16 | Above all , from a Unionist point of view , the republic 's government has behaved with crass insensitivity in clinging to a constitution that still calls explicitly for a unitary state . |
| 17 | This accounts partly for the vast success of ‘ Made in Italy ’ . |
| 18 | The additional list of tempos by Czerny for Mozart quartets and quintets in table 1 , which appears here for the first time , also shows a similarly wide range of minuet tempos , from slow to fast ( for quartets and quintets , dotted minim = 44–84 ; together with the list of tempos by Czerny and Hummel for the Mozart symphonies , dotted minim = 42–88 see table 2 of my 1988 Early music article ) . |
| 19 | Neil teaches at the Guildhall School of Music in London and , like most of the artists listed here , teaches and plays regularly for the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford . |
| 20 | An employee who qualifies only for the lower rate of SMP is entitled to it throughout the Maternity Pay Period of up to 18 weeks . |
| 21 | The company 's Paris division is reputedly achieving similar levels of success , which bodes well for the new outlets due to open in Frankfurt and Madrid by the end of the year . |
| 22 | If I cough or something it goes quite for a little while then comes back again . |
| 23 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 24 | His bill now goes forward for a second reading but stands a slim chance of becoming law . |
| 25 | The driver launches forward for a narrow escape . |
| 26 | While I think he is right to criticise those who propounded a social gospel earlier in the century he does so for the wrong reason . |
| 27 | B , on the other hand , who has always been resident in the United Kingdom , does likewise for the same reason . |
| 28 | The selected ‘ A ’ squad then works together for the targeted event by means of a series of residential training sessions . |
| 29 | It brings together for the first time 24 internationally produced and acclaimed animations , displaying a vast array of styles and experimentation . |
| 30 | This is a conflict of interest which can not easily be overcome and hardly augurs well for the future reconciliation of the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural rural population . |