Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] for a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would like to see that for a disabled applicant , but nevertheless , for a registered disabled applicant , and we can make special provision for the training of er , under represented groups . |
| 2 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 3 | It is not sufficient for example to establish that for a given country inside the union exports and/or imports rise after integration . |
| 4 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 5 | We are on a shore of white sand too hot to stand still for a moment , great breakers surf and trip to swathes of foam as we dart into the solid black and lovely shade . |
| 6 | Anne and Sarah tried to keep the peace but Miss Meers was a slave driver , and would never allow them to stand still for a moment . |
| 7 | She had gone to work first for a radical magazine , perched in a cramped office behind Kings Cross . |
| 8 | Besides , to appear eager for a decision would be flattering to Angelina . |
| 9 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 10 | That is a question I am afraid that is impossible to answer at this stage , that wo n't be known until he 's had a thorough investigation by the surgeons at the hospital who er probably wo n't be able to answer that for a day or two yet . |
| 11 | In 1845 he started a wholesale grocery business in Liverpool , and later a printing business ; hard work and a good business sense allowed him to sell these for a small fortune in 1856 . |
| 12 | Advising fans to sit tight for an eleventh hour opportunity to snap up tickets , Mr Mullan said he was ‘ reasonably confident ’ that a few hundred tickets would be sent back to Derry from other county boards unable to use them . |
| 13 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 14 | I used to buy that for a ha'penny . |
| 15 | For a few minutes she explained the system on which the cards were arranged , then let him try to select some for a bibliography she was compiling on nutrition in underdeveloped countries . |
| 16 | ‘ To grow older for a woman is to be more and more wrapped in fog . ’ |
| 17 | In bar 3 , Cliff moves to fret 13 for an F note an octave up . |
| 18 | But since only a limited amount could be achieved within the overloaded RHA capital programme , it was decided to select two for a closure programme within the strategic planning period ( 1983 to 1993 ) . |
| 19 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 20 | Moreover , the present study indicated that the syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with a necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a tendency to remain increased for a longer time than the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis . |
| 21 | So now , I want you to use that for a full month , and come back up , and let us know how things are doing . |
| 22 | You 're allowed to do that for a bit , as long as you finally discern that petomania is not a profession . |
| 23 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 24 | Right and I want you to plan to do that for a call tonight in order to what you would say to this sort of person all right ? |
| 25 | I 'm afraid we 're just going to have to weather this for a while , and gloat twice as much when we turn the tables . |
| 26 | It is a good idea to do this for a few more days before the horse travels . |
| 27 | Friends may refrain from expressing any sympathy because they feel that it might be inappropriate and embarrassing for her , and she may be feeling that people will regard her as a hypocrite if she gives way and weeps , although she may need to do this for a variety of reasons , one of them being not so much for what she has lost , but for what she never had . |
| 28 | It was more practicable to do this for a district or industry , since firm-by-firm bargaining was precluded for want of suitable union organisation to bring together all employees at the workplace . |
| 29 | They need to do this for a number of reasons , which include : * identifying the characteristics and attributes of customers and market segments ; * developing and positioning products and services which are appropriate to customer needs and purchasing patterns ; * maximising sales penetration potential through distribution and retail channels ; * focusing the most cost-effective promotional activity ( advertising , exhibitions , sponsorship etc ) as accurately as possible on target market segments . |
| 30 | You did n't need to do this for a laugh ! |