Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 2 | I 've forgotten my troubles ; now I want to climb just for the good performance itself . |
| 3 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 5 | I 've worked only for the common good , humbly trying to advance knowledge … ’ |
| 6 | I presume there are people with second homes who actually have money which they 've put aside for the right property . |
| 7 | They tend to cater mainly for the under-sixties , although they are always willing to do everything they can to help the older widow too . |
| 8 | College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day strike and a total ban on flexible working over pay , the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education announced yesterday . |
| 9 | More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish . |
| 10 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 11 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 12 | At home , high street sales have risen modestly for the second month running . |
| 13 | We are urgently searching for a set — I 've been informed that some surviving sets are twisted — and if it means that we have to look abroad for a new set in Poland than so be it ! |
| 14 | THE PARENTS of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time about their tragedy and their new hopes for the birth of another child . |
| 15 | THE parents of toddler James Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time since their son 's tragic death in February . |
| 16 | Plans have gone ahead for a regulatory body for the direct sales channel . |
| 17 | They live wild , occasionally returning to the park , and have bred successfully for the past six years . |
| 18 | Well I think we have to stop there for a little while because it 's nine o'clock , and I 've just got erm a few more pictures to show you later on so if we have a short break now , I think the coffee ladies are ready . |
| 19 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition , and the respondent consents to a decree being granted ; or |
| 20 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition . |
| 21 | That the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition and that the respondent agrees to a decree being granted . |
| 22 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |
| 23 | There , the hosts are our Tuscan expert Mario Baiocchi and the Anichini family whose ancestors have lived here for the past 300 years . |
| 24 | The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists . |
| 25 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 26 | We were going to visit my aunt and uncle who have lived there for the past five years . |
| 27 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |