Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army command long pressed for a local ‘ home guard ’ such as had been the rule in Malaya , Kenya and other terrorist situations . |
| 2 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
| 3 | The 1949 Constitution established Costa Rica as a democratic state with an executive President directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 4 | Interestingly , this setting also works for a complete mix , affecting mainly the percussive sounds but leaving the overall feel pretty much unchanged . |
| 5 | The President also serves for a four-year term ; if no presidential candidate gains a majority of the vote under direct elections , then the President is elected by the Congress . |
| 6 | This programme would be in addition to government funding already budgeted for a high-speed rail link to the French side of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 7 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 8 | Despite the decline in the growth rate of public service employment since the late 1970s , the public service sector still accounts for a significant proportion of total employment in the service industries . |
| 9 | However , the Guild also asked for a comprehensive home-help service so that women would not worry about the welfare of younger children and husbands , but this was not forthcoming . |
| 10 | The experimenter then waits for a certain amount of time and repeats the experiment to see how well the rat has remembered what it has to do . |
| 11 | Two winters ago , as Taylor tried desperately to revive his career , he spent a winter in the Aussie outback playing for a little-known team called North Kalgoorlie . |
| 12 | A few months after my return Goreng found a use for the less obviously subtle or versatile of his captives , which while turning them to material advantage also catered for a certain desired degree of planned redundancy . |
| 13 | Classical criminology clearly allows for a loose association between antecedent variables and outcomes : the probability of crime varies according to the degree of rationality of individuals and the efficiency and consistency of the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | Legislative power is held by a unicameral Legislative Assembly similarly elected for a four-year term . |
| 15 | Under the 1975 Constitution , legislative power was vested in the 40-member National Assembly indirectly elected for a five-year term , executive power was vested in a President elected indirectly for a five-year term , and the Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP ) was the sole legal political party . |
| 16 | This regular pattern only continues for a short time , and after about eight hours , the embryo is a blastula comprising a hollow ball of about 1000 cells . |
| 17 | The long explanations of ‘ faculties ’ and ‘ propensities ’ , with each area of the skull carefully marked for a particular skill , strike one as total pseudoscience . |
| 18 | If you wish to invite your Principal please apply for a complimentary ticket from the office should you do this please ensure that any V.I.P. you have invited is met , conducted to their seat and taken to tea and is generally made to feel welcome . |
| 19 | There is enough area there to call for a two-person crew , so launching is rarely a problem . |
| 20 | The bill was designed to permit workers in companies with more than 50 employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually to care for a sick or new child , receive medical treatment or tend to a seriously ill spouse or parent . |
| 21 | Leaving aside the fact that already under Dej the standing of a student 's relatives in the Party hierarchy already counted for a great deal when it came to handing out exam results , connections with the very summit of political power could offer useful patronage and protection to scientists and their institute . |
| 22 | Well I , I went to a psychiatrist once looking for a self-help group cos I did n't want tablets or anything I just wanted somebody I could talk to . |
| 23 | The legislation also provided for a maximum personal income tax rate of 47 per cent and for corporation tax of 45 per cent . |
| 24 | d ) any other Question necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded ; and on a Motion so made for a new Clause or a new Schedule , the Chairman or Mr. Speaker shall put only the Question that the Clause or Schedule be added to the Bill . |
| 25 | That notoriety explains why Simon & Schuster paid $275,000 for the translation rights , the highest sum ever paid for a Japanese book . |
| 26 | Growing domestic concern about the prospect of a military offensive was evident by the end of November , despite the failure of a bid to have Congress specially recalled for a full debate ; the Senate armed services committee opened hearings on the administration 's management of the Gulf crisis on Nov. 27 . |
| 27 | However , she also found wide variation in the extent to which different social workers used the referral either to assess for a specific resource or to undertake a more general assessment of need and circumstances . |
| 28 | In The Tempest verse again stands for a superior ethos in stark juxtaposition with prose . |
| 29 | The British radicals , including the Chartists , who campaigned for a democratic franchise in the early nineteenth century also campaigned for a free press , by which they meant one unhampered by government censorship and taxes . |
| 30 | ‘ You may not know , but we had an officer here looking for a missing boy , earlier this evening . |