Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new mood of optimism prevails at Grace Road , where fundraising has been successfully completed for an indoor cricket school , building work on which will start in September . |
| 2 | We have successfully pressed for an EC ban on the importation of baby seal products and of furs from those countries which permit leghold traps . |
| 3 | Treasury Counsel announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment was now inclined to take the view that the statue was not part of the listed building , and so asked for an adjournment . |
| 4 | ‘ We can only stay for an hour , ’ said Ginnie . |
| 5 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 6 | Companies are under no obligation to do so but , for those people lucky enough to work for an organisation willing to amend its pension scheme rules accordingly , this new provision could make an immense difference to the financial position of early retirees . |
| 7 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 8 | Without having suffered the turmoil of a leadership contest , Labour can boast that it is better prepared for an election than the Conservatives . |
| 9 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 10 | There was a long wait for an answer . |
| 11 | ‘ Better send for an ambulance , ’ I said heavily , taking in the scene as I wondered what to do next . |
| 12 | This is an expanding market of course and potential sponsors are constantly searching for an appropriate product on which they can lavish their money . |
| 13 | A fuming Jackson said : ‘ I spent 40 minutes walking up and down looking for an official , and later two hours near the control centre , but nothing happened . ’ |
| 14 | It is no real objection to Bentham that we can only look for an approximation to the truth about these matters of pleasure and pain . |
| 15 | Looking around her , she would see that while her brothers might follow their father 's trade or profession , whatever that was , or perhaps look for an apprenticeship in a traditional craft , or take advantage of the new opportunities in , say , transport — in short choose , within limits , a career that appealed to them — she was not likely to be able to indulge a personal preference . |
| 16 | It can be interpreted more narrowly as merely calling for an incidental adjustment in the form of an annotation of the present birth register . |
| 17 | HP has a low-cost entry-level 7100LC chip in the works called Hummingbird apparently bound for an under-$5,000 box possibly due in the second quarter . |
| 18 | Louis Blom-Cooper , QC in the Listener , Bernard Levin in the Observer , Leo Abse , MP in the Spectator all called for an immediate inquiry , while Julian Symons in the Sunday Times , C. H. Rolph in the Times Literary Supplement , Mervyn Jones in the New Statesman all declared categorically that Meehan was innocent and should be granted a free pardon under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy . |
| 19 | Rev. Cahal Daly , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor , all called for an independent public inquiry into the killings , but Brooke declared that he had every confidence in the investigation being undertaken by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 20 | It does not necessarily call for an ethical content , so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest . |
| 21 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 22 | he 's only coming for an hour . |
| 23 | Others seeking contact can only apply for an order with the leave of the court ( s34(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 24 | The bars here are unique in that unlike the rest of ‘ puritan ’ Germany , they only close for an hour a day to let the cleaners in ( many bars even pour drink through a loophole by cleaning half the bar at a time — prost ! ) |
| 25 | My predecessor Patrick Jenkin had sensibly asked for an examination of the different ways that European countries financed their health care . |
| 26 | Jamila said nothing and Helen was eager to talk about Charlie , a subject on which she was obviously preparing for an advanced degree . |
| 27 | The Shetland Islands , the most northerly part of the United Kingdom at sixty degrees north , lie well south the true Arctic , but still far enough north that in midsummer the sun only sets for an hour or two . |
| 28 | The sun is setting now , midnight sun ending a few weeks before , but it only disappears for an hour and even then it leaves behind its mark of golden twilight . |
| 29 | One can only pray for an owner with an enlightened view on conservation and access issues . |
| 30 | She followed into my office and arranged herself neatly in a straight-backed chair , notebook open and sharp pencil ready poised for an attack on the clean white pages . |