Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 2 | Rather than wait for an employment appeal tribunal , they went on strike . |
| 3 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 4 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 5 | Rather than striving for an impossible , and ultimately sterile , objectivity , scholars will increasingly need to follow Mary Louise Pratt 's example in admitting their own ideological commitments in order to promote the development of research . |
| 6 | He started to pat his pockets , as if searching for an ID . |
| 7 | Any spreadsheet files sent in DIF format to InteCalc will be converted to its own internal format or if destined for an external program they will be sent as text . |
| 8 | A tall , thin man stood staring at a stone wall , as if waiting for an answer to a question he had put to it . |
| 9 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
| 10 | For example if studying for an exam , it is well established that studying for long periods without a break is literally , a waste of time . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was the way his eyes flicked about as if hoping for an attacker to appear , or maybe it was the slight inclination of his head . |
| 12 | The best way of avoiding temptation is to make a habit , unless writing for an abnormally large orchestra , of employing only two percussion players , one for the kettledrums exclusively , and the other for the rest of the percussion . |
| 13 | Such consent helps to provide uniformity among the police forces when considering prosecuting for an offence which can be committed in so many different ways and for so many different reasons . |
| 14 | She hesitated while searching for an answer that would not betray the fact that she longed to remain in Stella 's place but that she feared for her own emotional state . |
| 15 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |
| 16 | But of this she said nothing , watched Tina putting her cake into the filthiest , blackest , greasiest oven she had ever seen , while waiting for an answer to one of her rare inquiries . |
| 17 | While waiting for an ambulance it is possible that first aid carried out immediately would save a patient from choking or bleeding to death . |
| 18 | DARLINGTON Memorial Hospital managers are still investigating claims that a 90year-old woman was forgotten for three hours while waiting for an operation . |
| 19 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , was left soaked in blood after holding her sister for at least 25 minutes while waiting for an ambulance to arrive after the tragedy in Bishop Auckland . |
| 20 | This initiative owes much to Belle Tutaev who , while pioneering for an expansion of state-financed nursery education , suggested that mothers might like to establish their own ‘ playgroups ’ . |
| 21 | When calculated for an individual subject this measure corresponds to the point on a confidence rating scale where the subject is indifferent between targets and distractors . |
| 22 | Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation . |
| 23 | When pushed for an influence on this ‘ doubling ’ approach , Adams has a very simple answer : ‘ AC/DC ! |
| 24 | He reminded everyone that good often comes out of change dictated by environmental considerations , for example his own company became involved in titanium dioxide extraction when looking for an alternative to white lead . |
| 25 | And do n't forget that the hilltop you cast your eye over when looking for an old route would have caught the eye of a medieval traveller as a good place to rest — and to lose coins . |
| 26 | Actually , I find snowdrops rather insipid , ’ he admitted as though searching for an excuse for his negative attitude . |
| 27 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 28 | If you want to use aromatherapy oils when caring for an elderly relative , be prepared to pay for the best . |
| 29 | To make this precise , he takes a well-defined notion of instrumental rationality ( Zweckrationalität ) from economics , as specified for an ideal-type case where the agent is fully rational and the rational choice fully calculable . |
| 30 | As striking for an impressionable child would have been the earth tremor on 27 March 829 which brought down houses in Aachen and damaged the roof of the palatine chapel . |