Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse still searched desperately for a footing in the soft , moving earth of the cliff-side and Maggie felt that every bone in her body was jarred as the flying hoofs found what they sought . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 4 | Let's begin by assuming that your plot actually has somewhere for a garage to stand . |
| 5 | The Channel Tunnel is to be built using the grand Chantier , or large scale works , procedure hitherto used only for the construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 6 | Owner Stewart Tarratt said : ‘ There were several burglaries that night and I think the thief just stopped here for a meal break . ’ |
| 7 | Calm and steady as a rock , the Pakistan captain just waiting here for the ball to come … ’ |
| 8 | The White Paper also recognized publicly for the first time a stark fact that was becoming increasingly obvious : that with the steep decline in the birth rate the number of teachers in training would have to be sharply reduced to avoid a gross overproduction of teachers . |
| 9 | The welcome he received on the factory tour obviously boded well for the by-election as ten days later both candidates were elected . |
| 10 | any motor vehicle standing on a part of a road specially set aside for the parking of vehicles , or as a stand for hackney carriages , or as a stand for public service vehicles , or as a place at which such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers where compliance with this regulation would conflict with the provisions of any order , regulations or byelaws governing the use of such part of a road for that purpose ; |
| 11 | His bill now goes forward for a second reading but stands a slim chance of becoming law . |
| 12 | One of the great benefits of being planted out by a mother church is to have that church often praying more for the new church than for itself . |
| 13 | It sniffed the air then made straight for the drum . |
| 14 | This resembles the bar which Conrad II added to the imperial crown probably made originally for the coronation of the emperor Otto I in Rome in 962 . |
| 15 | The selected ‘ A ’ squad then works together for the targeted event by means of a series of residential training sessions . |
| 16 | There was a round table always set aside for the ‘ Carry On ’ team in the baronial hall that served as the Pinewood restaurant . |
| 17 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 18 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |