Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking over responsibility for Britain 's nuclear deterrent from the RAF would be attractive only if funds allocated for it were transferred from the Air vote ; or |
| 2 | Arthur Golding 's translation of Ovid 's Metamorphoses may not yet be ‘ canonical ’ ; but it is a lot nearer to being so because Pound campaigned for it . |
| 3 | Dean Martin , Sammy Cahn and Tony tried to calm her down while Sinatra reached for his car radio and called for the police and an ambulance . |
| 4 | They sat chatting together while Elizabeth waited for trade to pick up again . |
| 5 | Graham 's first touch let him down as Boro waited for offside and Stephen Pears was able to smother the ball . |
| 6 | We now sell Book Tokens only when people ask for them . |
| 7 | Notts County about to cave in as Town went for the kill . |
| 8 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 9 | Bell 2 : 341 , 1877 ) Miller sent cantaloupe seeds from Armenia , in his opinion the best , and advised using dung rather than tanners bark for the hotbed , with a good depth of loam for rooting . |
| 10 | But since the general feeling within the ICC is that cash rather than rotation counts for more , England could end up losing out . |
| 11 | Some couples were moving away while others waited for the band to strike up again . |
| 12 | Just after Kathy left for London , David arrived with a bottle of champagne to spend the day and celebrate New Year 's Eve . |
| 13 | ‘ Have n't you washed your face yet , Sam ? ’ asked his mother just before Aunty arrived for tea . |
| 14 | Armies from Sweden and Spain , France , the Netherlands and from as far away as Transylvania contended for superiority . |
| 15 | Steve Howey picked out David Kelly , who was allowed to run through as Brentford played for offside , to bury a right-foot shot inside the near post . |
| 16 | Just as solicitors acting for the wife , where the matrimonial home stands in the husband 's sole name , will have given advice concerning the registration of a Class F Land Charge or a notice ( if registered land ) ; so , where the home stands in the joint names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , will they have advised on severance of that joint tenancy in order to prevent the husband acquiring the whole property by operation of law in the event of the wife 's death before the determination of the matrimonial proceedings ( see Barton v Morris [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 1032 ) . |
| 17 | He recovers it neatly , just as Serafin dives for it herself and sets more oranges cascading . |
| 18 | Far from it , for he has matched his chosen designs to the theme of the growth of professionalism in architecture from the formation of the Architects ' Club in 1791 to the founding of the Institute of British Architects in 1837 ; and more than this , for just as architects strove for recognition in a professional world being transformed by the Industrial Revolution and new sciences , so does Worsley show us how this new breed of architect acquired technical proficiencies : in the presentation of drawings , in methods of copying and reproduction , in colour coding , and in advanced modes of perspective . |
| 19 | Just as astronomers sought for the pattern and the simple laws that must govern the movements of the stars and planets — making the world a real universe or cosmos , an ordered whole — so naturalists sought an arrangement which would make sense of all the different kinds of creatures that they found . |
| 20 | Lastly , just as people looking for jobs are advised to ask around and find out about prospects through the grapevine rather than from official sources , employers too , where appropriate , can let it be known that they are looking for a certain sort of employee . |
| 21 | It would push a powerful Arab country back into implacable confrontation with Israel just when voices calling for a peace settlement are gaining strength throughout the Arab world . |
| 22 | Meanwhile as hospitals wait for the first evacuees … surgeons say they 'll work for nothing to save the sight of a ten year old bosnian boyu . |
| 23 | As soon as Andrew paused for breath , she took her chance . |
| 24 | However , an aid convoy and a French field hospital trying to reach Srebrenica remained blocked yesterday while trucks intended for the Muslim town of Zepa were ordered to return to Belgrade by the UN after being stalled for six days . |
| 25 | KEVIN Keegan came out fighting yesterday as D-Day loomed for stricken Newcastle . |
| 26 | No further colonization could be attempted while the war with Spain went on , partly because ships bound for the North American seacoast were forced by the prevailing winds to go uncomfortably far north or dangerously close to the Spanish settlement in the south , but interest revived after peace was made with Spain in 1604 . |
| 27 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 28 | ‘ This is partly because employers searching for cheap labour have imposed restrictions on the freedom of trade unions in the countries in which they have invested , ’ it says . |
| 29 | Mr Sommer also believes the basic offence of entering a computer will be virtually unenforceable , partly because of lack of police manpower and partly because arrest warrants for this less serious offence will involve applying to a magistrate . |
| 30 | Some offices send out information automatically while others wait for you to approach them . |