Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten blocks from here Judith was about some early evening occupation : bathing , perhaps , or dressing for an evening on the town . |
| 2 | The Forest rights of the Crown should be sold to the landowners who owned the soil , or exchanged for an apportionment of land for enclosure and economic development . |
| 3 | It may be possible , due to restricted publicity and advertising , for few tenders to be submitted and personal friends or acquaintances of the agent to be able to submit a low offer , or arrange for an offer to be submitted once all the tenders have been opened . |
| 4 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 5 | For the determination of total carnitine , 150 ml of ammonia ( 33% ) was added to two tubes and incubated for an hour at 37°C . |
| 6 | Let us now consider the requirements of a multiprogramming system , where we have a number of programs occupying main storage and competing for an allocation of time on the processor . |
| 7 | Try mixing a gallon of fresh seawater , and test for an increase in nitrates . |
| 8 | It is not , however , to be regarded as a receptacle to be emptied and purified for an infilling of some cosmic force . |
| 9 | The consequences of a low initial limit was that a solicitor would either have to stop work at an early stage and wait for an extension to be authorised , which ‘ is time-consuming , causes delay and raises difficulties with clients , ’ or work on without an extension . |
| 10 | Pupils at Grange Primary School in Hartlepool have collected a huge amount of toothbrushes and toothpaste for an orphanage in Romania . |
| 11 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 12 | The two largest union federations , Turk-Is and Hak-Is , which organized the strike , demanded an increase of 500 per cent in workers ' pay and called for an end to restrictive labour laws . |
| 13 | Bush denied that he had been in Paris and called for an end to the " rumour-mongering " concerning the affair . |
| 14 | He said the decision was ‘ little short of a vote of no confidence in Sir Bryan Carsberg ’ and called for an investigation of the role in the affair of the Corporate Affairs Minister , Neil Hamilton , between December and February , when he declared a possible conflict of interest and withdrew from consideration of the bid . |
| 15 | The first drew attention to the position of deaf and dumb inmates of Poor Law Institutions and called for an enquiry into numbers involved and the best method of dealing with them . |
| 16 | What is impressive about this piece of route-giving is the way in which the speaker provides information in manageable chunks and waits for an acknowledgement after each bit . |
| 17 | Sample tasks include asking what 3-D shapes would be made if given 2-D nets were folded up and asking for an interpretation of a 2-D diagram of a model made from cubes . |
| 18 | You should make it clear that you will be a student at the University of Edinburgh and ask for an account to be opened at a convenient branch . |
| 19 | You should make it clear that you will be a student at the University of Edinburgh and ask for an account to be opened at a convenient branch . |
| 20 | Rather , we can characterize particular features of our perceptual apparatus ( which we know to be the source of their reliability ) and ask for an explanation of those features . |
| 21 | You can write to the Establishment Officer of the department of your choice and ask for an interview in expectation of the next vacancy . |
| 22 | Before the seventy-two hours are up , they can go back to the court and apply for an extension of the warrant of further detention by up to another thirty-six hours . |
| 23 | This normally happens only in the summer and lasts for an average of one to five days . |
| 24 | Ten more receive similar help in Colombia and three in Pakistan , while a member of the Rome office successfully applied and studied for an MBA in industrial management . |
| 25 | This protein was then purified and tested for an ability to be phosphorylated in a crude HeLa cell nuclear extract ( Figure 1C ) . |
| 26 | This reflected the Soviet fear that even as CENTO collapsed the United States was preparing the construction of new alliance structures in the Third World and working for an extension of the geographic responsibilities of NATO . |
| 27 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |
| 28 | Every day he went out with his scribe in his boat and stayed for an hour in each of the twelve provinces of hid kingdom , ensuring that all was well . |
| 29 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 30 | They cost about 50 pence each to make , but sell for an average of £12.99 . |