Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jake checked only for an instant . |
| 2 | It covered all land and air forces , but not paramilitary forces , on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place . |
| 3 | Some who were working intended to slip away for an hour or so . |
| 4 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |
| 5 | The only way to write well for an instrument and exploit its full potentials is to know it intimately well . |
| 6 | Outsiders have looked hard for an arrangement for the southern Slavs . |
| 7 | If you are planning to work overseas for an organisation with which you are not very familiar , it makes sense to check that they are a bona fide , reputable organisation with a good track record of treating executive employees fairly . |
| 8 | She sought desperately for an answer , but could find none . |
| 9 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |
| 10 | ‘ I was quite prepared to play in the reserves , and wait patiently for an opportunity . |
| 11 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent are stated in section 1(1) of the Patents Act 1977 as follows : A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied , that is to say — a ) the invention is new ; b ) it involves an inventive step ; c ) it is capable of industrial application ; d ) the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) below … |
| 12 | It is still the definitive cinematic story of the attack and , for all the commercial flaws of the film , it stands alone in technical accuracy and the actual attack scenes are among the finest put together for an aviation film . |
| 13 | Beatrice Webb signed the Appeal , although as she recorded in her diary for 1889 , she was impressed by a reply she received from a woman who complained that her lodger could vote but she could not , and that while she could vote for her parish council and her local Poor Law Guardians , she could not do so for an MP . |
| 14 | However , if Microsoft can neither be bothered to put the basic information in its literature , nor inform the people handling the upgrade , should I be looking elsewhere for an alternative ? |
| 15 | Not an easy one by any stretch of the imagination but it 's one if you 're looking desperately for an equalizer you 'd be hoping to score from . |
| 16 | I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress . |
| 17 | A LAWYER acting for Mrs Winnie Mandela appealed yesterday for an end to press speculation about her marriage to Mr Nelson Mandela as further reports surfaced alleging links with yet another township murder . |
| 18 | Be prepared also for an interview with an immigration panel at the country 's High Commission or Embassy in London . |
| 19 | He rightly felt that in the age of nuclear weapons any future war in Europe would be an act of suicide and so from 1956 he appealed repeatedly for an improvement in East-West relations and for super-power disengagement in the continent 's central heartland . |
| 20 | Work is well on , but they are looking particularly for an Aldis gun sight for the project . |
| 21 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 22 | In some fantastic way , he could see his mind like these barren screes — a frozen cascade of broken rock face lying on the more solid rock waiting only for an impulse to charge it into dangerous motion . |
| 23 | Musicians have been waiting impatiently for an application to read printed musical scores and convert them into MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface files for output on keyboards and synthesisers . |
| 24 | As I have argued all along , although a consideration of possible criteria is important in a wider context , the idea of numerical identity can not be literally " defined " in terms of the criteria of re-identification of particulars , which means that we shall have to look elsewhere for an answer to our problem . |
| 25 | We must look elsewhere for an explanation . |
| 26 | Neither dares to look away for an instant , in case this is read as a sign of weakness . |
| 27 | Perhaps you 'd like to stick around and watch this happening because I remember you subbing once for an etching lesson . |
| 28 | The girl , on a youth training scheme , was waiting sullenly for an opening in a hairdresser 's . |
| 29 | But what 's really scary is that I often lie there for an age afterwards thinking , ‘ Just what will I do , if this dream should ever come true ? ’ |
| 30 | An extensive mutagenesis of the IE-3 binding site had been performed previously for an analysis of the sequence requirements for Vmw175 binding ( 21 ) . |