Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 2 | Underwater , their nymph is just as efficient a predator and unlike the roaming adult , it lies in ambush for other insect nymphs , and larvae , for other aquatic bugs , and even for young fish fry . |
| 3 | Bedbug , which is a true bug , of the order Hemiptera , and which lies in wait for warm , still bodies . |
| 4 | This aggressive cruelty usually lies in wait for some provocation . |
| 5 | Once the trap is complete the little animal burrows into the bottom of the pit and there lies in wait for unsuspecting prey . |
| 6 | In Northend ( Inspector of Taxes ) v White and Leonard and Corbin Greener and Others ( The Times , 26th February 1975 ) , a firm of solicitors receiving interest on a general client account with a bank was held in this case not to be entitled to earned income relief in respect of the interest because it had not been earned in return for professional services and was not ‘ immediately derived ’ from the carrying on of their profession . |
| 7 | The adoption of regular reviews for residents , requiring the continuing involvement of a social worker is gradually being implemented , but is slow to come in Homes for elderly people . |
| 8 | For example , a business in the United States may wish to assign an engineer to work in Japan for some months . |
| 9 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |
| 10 | On May 12 and 13 around 1,000,000 Italians voted in elections for 28 municipal authorities and for the provincial government of Caserta , near Naples . |
| 11 | In 2001 : A Space Odyssey there is a poignant scene where the computer , Hal , has his brain disconnected in retaliation for un-user-friendly conduct . |
| 12 | The burden of the message was that good men were dying in Belfast for lesser sins than MacQuillan was committing and unless he changed the Post 's tune he would be shot . |
| 13 | And it only stopped once and that were at er unless it stopped to change engines somewhere , perhaps it would , but it stopped in Birmingham for twenty minutes and what a twenty minutes it were . |
| 14 | Her favourite method is to seduce the fellow at a ball , then lead him to the garden between dances — the gardener will later find the body which appears , strangely , to have been immersed in lake-water for many weeks . |
| 15 | Wales is being given a quite different quota to England and because Cornwall is being included in England for this purpose we are being unfairly treated by Wales ' being generously treated . |
| 16 | The number of therapeutic abortions carried out in Northern Ireland is not known because they are contained in figures for gynaecological operations . |
| 17 | After driving in silence for ten minutes , Maxim said suddenly : . |
| 18 | CA is planning to build a laboratory in Milton Keynes to provide in part for more tests with other European Organisations . |
| 19 | Accordingly , we intend to provide in regulations for direct payments to start once that 100 per cent . |
| 20 | The authors speculated that this discrimination occurred in shortlisting for senior house officer and senior registrar posts ( rather than in interviews ) , and today 's study supports that speculation . |
| 21 | The Indians regarded him as a medicine man and his apple-tree enthusiasm , odd clothing and religious devotion — he distributed religious tracts torn in parts for widespread circulation — started many folktales . |
| 22 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
| 23 | Place in fridge for 3 hours to set . |
| 24 | Theoretically , it could be held at the ‘ Unix Perspectives : Conference for Enterprise Solutions ’ get-together that Unix Systems Labs has in train for early November ( UX 435 ) . |
| 25 | Some two dozen of his tenants were re-housed in new brick , thatched houses , each with its own garden , and he was careful to look after their employment , health and education needs in return for steady work , church attendance and sober habits . |
| 26 | Sidney Stallard , Minister for Community Affairs , resigned in April for personal reasons and was replaced by Leonard Gibbons . |
| 27 | The words speak a philosophy known and believed in China for many centuries . |
| 28 | One may be amused — though not very — that after living in Italy for forty-five years Max still could not speak Italian , but such insularity is not to be imitated . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 30 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |