Example sentences of "[vb -s] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 2 | Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do . |
| 3 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 4 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 5 | Its demand for cast iron guarantees for a federal-style constitution , as a safeguard against domination by a strong central government , has been a central plank in its negotiating stance . |
| 6 | Lord Ackner stated that : There is clearly no reason in English contract law why A , for good consideration , should not achieve an enforceable agreement whereby B , agrees for a specified period of time not to negotiate with anyone except A in relation to the sale of his property … |
| 7 | When one goes for a major adventure like tornado you hope that most of the difficulties are are ironed out , clearly they 're not , another set of difficulties emerges . |
| 8 | The stockings on Christmas morning are always full of useful things ( Clarissa 's includes Pond 's Cold Cream and tights ) , then after church the family goes for a long walk to work up a hearty appetite for dinner . |
| 9 | Her character , Angela , goes for a Bohemian lifestyle and an affair with bumbling cop Matthew Modine . |
| 10 | An NIS Domain licence goes for a one-time fee of $25,000 . |
| 11 | An NIS Domain license goes for a one-time fee of $25,000 . |
| 12 | ‘ If this is thrown out and the company then goes for a public inquiry , we will fight them all the way . ’ |
| 13 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 14 | The crowd lingers for a long time , until it 's almost dark . |
| 15 | There has for a great many years been a link of friendship between the people of lslay , particularly of the Rinns , and Ballycastle in the north of Ireland . |
| 16 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 17 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 18 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 19 | The geographical concentration of the relatively high per capita income services — especially in finance — in London and the South East has for a long time been a feature of the British economy [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 20 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |
| 21 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 22 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 23 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 24 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 25 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 26 | They will have done him no good in the housing movement , which recognises that my hon. Friend stands for a real commitment , typical of this Government , to the needs of homeless people . |
| 27 | M stands for a thousand , so a 10M potency , for instance , has been diluted 1 in 100 , ten thousand times . |
| 28 | ‘ Organization ’ here stands for a separate small company or a self-governed part of a large company . |
| 29 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 30 | The ANC stands for a new South Africa , a South Africa in which racism shall be a thing of the past , where human dignity and equality shall prevail in the life of the country and its people , where the goals enshrined in the Freedom Charter shall be transformed into a living reality . |