Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most trees produce few seeds in any year , the energy stored in each seed is sufficient for a seedling to grow for several weeks with little or no photosynthesis . |
| 2 | On that subject , obviously next year , er bearing in mind that we 've agreed as a committee to go for twelve matches on Sundays |
| 3 | I find a little difficulty in understanding the basis of your argument Mr , given the point you made last week about the need for Yo North Yorkshire as a whole to cater for one hundred percent migration , so as to make adequate provision for those coming from Leeds . |
| 4 | You can then either read it as a standard newspaper or use it as a database to search for particular articles . |
| 5 | Then he put through a bill to suspend for five years the Seven Hours Act , which had restricted maximum daily hours for the coal industry since 1919 , following the Eight Hours Act of 1908 . |
| 6 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 7 | This form is not to be recommended to a landlord , because if his power is restricted to a power to determine for certain specified purposes , he may lose the power altogether if he can not establish the purpose at the crucial date . |
| 8 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 9 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |