Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've had to wait for today before we could fix anything . ’ |
| 2 | It was unacceptable , he said , that patients should have to wait for more than two years for their promised treatments . |
| 3 | By 1897 he had gone , the mill coming into the hands of John Wyman , who was to remain for more than thirty years . |
| 4 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 5 | I was coming up to my eleven hours — we 're not supposed to drive for more than eleven hours — and I went in and there was Charlie Hatton . |
| 6 | Once the director took Dustin aside and said , ‘ This is the only day we 're ever going to shoot this scene and , no matter how exhausted or lousy you feel , I want you to remember that what you give me is going to be on celluloid for people to see for ever and ever . |
| 7 | What I have to struggle for again and again is instinct with her . |
| 8 | In the normal course of events , one would expect those high standards to suffice for more than five years ; but these are not normal times . |
| 9 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 10 | The older farmers particularly found it difficult to concentrate for more than 3 hours . |
| 11 | That it 's almost impossible for the human brain to concentrate for more than ten minutes of time on any |
| 12 | A single leaf of the Gutenberg ( or Mazarin ) Latin Bible of c.1456 is likely to cost from £2,000-£3,000 ; even an imperfect copy of Coverdale ( which is the only condition in which it occurs ) will probably fetch from £5,000-£10,000 according to the nature of its deficiencies ; and a reasonable copy of the first issue of the first edition of the Authorised Version would be hard to find for less than £2,000-£3,000 . |
| 13 | A stuffed lion which is expected to sell for more than a thousand pounds is just one of the unusual exhibits at a auction of taxidermy . |
| 14 | The Military Cross , and other awards from companies and foreign governments are expected to sell for more than two thousand pounds . |
| 15 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 16 | But it was seeing her waving — standing there and seeming to wave for ever as she backed away from me . |
| 17 | No indication has yet been given of the price of the G40 , but it will need to retail for less than £11,000 to keep the GTi in touch . |
| 18 | The model told people what to look for both when doing psychophysical studies and when carrying out the direct measurements of receptor function all those years later . |
| 19 | But if she were to look for ever and a day , she would not find it . |
| 20 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 21 | The Companies Act 1985 provides that , if a company director 's service agreement is to last for more than five years , it must be approved by the shareholders . |
| 22 | She would not have done it if it was to last for more than four days . |
| 23 | As long as the carrier continues to be liable for the delivery of the goods to a holder of the missing bill of lading , the indemnity has to run for long or indefinite periods of time . |
| 24 | But good looks ai n't going to count for much if the sound 's not up to much . |
| 25 | Those wishing to study for more than 6 weeks may do so providing they begin their course on any of the above dates . |
| 26 | Returning now to the dualist 's notion of invariant content and variable style , we can retain what is good in this distinction by refining it to allow for more than one level of stylistic variation . |
| 27 | For example , needs to account for why if the sentence P and Q is true , then so is the sentence Q and in order to do that it assigns a certain structure , for example as on the handout in my assigned structure and brackets P Q. Erm anyway erm it just has and has a separate particle operating on two distinct sentences that are not ordered syntax needs to account for the well-formedness of the structure , sorry P and Q. The ill-formedness of P Q and the similar grouping of and with or that is in English between sentences and where you can find one and find another but not with , not you do n't say John loves Mary not Peter loves Jill . |
| 28 | ANC sources said the funds of the ANC Department of Social Welfare , which she heads , had been frozen on the orders of the movement 's treasurer-general after she failed to account for more than 400,000 Rand ( £80,000 ) that is missing . |
| 29 | Credit will only be given for technical articles and credit for this type of reading is unlikely to account for more than 25% of total unstructured CPE . |
| 30 | And , you , you make for that and on i on the sand there 'd be number seven you see , so you could got to dive for there if you were lost . |