Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 2 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 3 | It argues that renewable energies are not developed enough for a higher goal , but if more money for research was made available , the future could be very different . |
| 4 | MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport . |
| 5 | However , on Saturday , October 10 , it is pencilled in for a proposed Newcastle to Maryport via Leeds , Skipton and Workington special , returning to Bradford Forster Square . |
| 6 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 7 | A ‘ money bill ’ , one dealing essentially with financial matters , can be delayed only for a month . |
| 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 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 10 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 11 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 12 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 13 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 14 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 15 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 16 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 17 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 18 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 19 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 20 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 21 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 22 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 23 | Artcare only use quality nylon zips , each of which has been designed especially for a particular portfolio ; and only square arch mechanisms are used making presentation much neater . |
| 24 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 25 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 26 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 27 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 28 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 29 | PILOT error was blamed yesterday for a North Sea helicopter crash in which six men were killed . |
| 30 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |