Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attracted by my outcry , the thing was flopping towards me for a closer look . |
| 2 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 3 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 4 | I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish . |
| 5 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
| 6 | ( iii ) After incubation in complement , transfer the embryos to fresh M2 + BSA and leave them for a further 20–30 min at 37 C during which time the outer cells should be seen to bleb and lyse . |
| 7 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
| 8 | However , having started back at the club it has become apparent that the club has no intention of coaching last season 's players to highlight weaknesses and prepare them for the higher level of rugby . |
| 9 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 10 | If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment . |
| 11 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |
| 12 | After all , good results will qualify you for a better job , and give you the added satisfaction of proving to your boss that you are good at what you do . |
| 13 | I 'll take you for a closer look . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know if Craig has told you , but I 've been given authority to extend our maintenance contract with you for a further year , without going to tender . |
| 15 | Too late then , surely , to change him for a better if the word goes against him . ’ |
| 16 | She stared at him for a further moment , then meekly she obeyed and he smiled . |
| 17 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 18 | The recorder Nicholas Jarman jailed him for a further 3 and a half years for what he described as a terrible act with the most appalling consequences . |
| 19 | After more than 20 years of Medau teaching in Edinburgh , Muriel Jessop is taking the step of handing over her class — much to the sadness of her class members , some of whom have been with her for a larger number of those years . |
| 20 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 21 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 22 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 23 | They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look . |
| 24 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 25 | Under these circumstances , all you can do is try to re-align the board on the artwork and expose it for a further period , but you may well have to scrap that attempt and start again with a freshly-coated board . |
| 26 | While BT has the right to terminate the deal between years three and six , it also has the option of extending it for a further three years . |
| 27 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 28 | No life that though is it for a younger person ? |
| 29 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 30 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |