Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 2 | Stories were told of whole communities sitting down and wailing the old tune whilst waiting for the slave masters to arrive and incarcerate their bodies and souls . |
| 3 | Power the lower leg into the target , aiming for a light smack if attacking the head , or a more solid thump if going for the ribs . |
| 4 | Your education or training will have taken you far above the ordinary man although allowing for a proper pride in such an achievement , it does not require you to become intolerant of others not so fortunate . |
| 5 | I encountered an old lady of a more awkward sort while canvassing for the Tory candidate in Crosby — a by-election subsequently won for the SDP by Shirley Williams . |
| 6 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 7 | Other topics might include moving from practice into industry , part-time working or going back to work full time while caring for a young family . |
| 8 | It might be a more rational motive than murdering for a person ; less risk of subsequent disenchantment . ’ |
| 9 | Authorities said 16-year-old Hattori was shot outside Peairs ' home after he and a friend , Webb Haymaker , knocked on Peairs ' front door while looking for a costume party being held in the same street . |
| 10 | For John Prescot today , not a discrete silence while waiting for the leader 's call , he was making it clear that he wanted a swap to one of the top economic jobs . |
| 11 | Although the quantitative approach raises its own problems of methodology and measurement in attempting to model complex behaviour , it can be useful in sharpening concepts , providing some common ground between different disciplines and isolating the effects of one particular variable whilst allowing for the influence of the others . |
| 12 | George Dempster , the member of parliament for Dundee burghs , whose election at St. Andrews would ‘ certainly turn on a single vote unless I am able to provide a Councillors son in a Kirk ’ , urged nothing more than political consequences when pressing for the settlement of the St. Andrews clergyman , and many presentations were indeed political bribes . |
| 13 | An extreme case of this approach is one in which solid models are required to interpret the local geometry when searching for a clash between two objects . |
| 14 | If you are single and ambitious , then your career pattern and development will be important to you , and any prospects for promotion in the longer term are a significant factor when looking for the right opening . |