Example sentences of "[verb] for in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 2 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 3 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 4 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 5 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 6 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 7 | It is possible to obtain derogation from certain Stock Exchange requirements but this must be applied for in the early stages of a transaction . |
| 8 | The OTO , founded by freemasons , has much to answer for in the last eighty years . |
| 9 | And that 's a traditional one that 's been made for in a modern , modern colour . |
| 10 | Even blindingly obvious and crucial insights do n't usually come instantly — it took us 24 hours to realise that the part-concealed agenda behind IBM 's December closures was that the company was signalling the death of the mainframe , a couple of months to realise that the executive search committee of IBM non-executive directors had n't a clue what it should be looking for in a new chief executive for IBM — because they themselves did n't have the computer industry background they needed to recognise how vital such a background would be to the person assuming the post . |
| 11 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 12 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 13 | And what else was Kerrang looking for in an ideal editor ? |
| 14 | ‘ It was the old Linfield spirit that carried them through because it was n't a great Linfield team , compared to the sides Trevor and I played for in the 80s . |
| 15 | Bouncing the rhythm and lead guitars and reprocessing them was , I admit , a bit over the top but , even so ( apart from a slight dulling of the sound , easily compensated for in the final mix ) , I thought the results were very good . |
| 16 | While the quality of English wines can now compare with estate-grown and bottled wines from Germany or Alsace — in that they are fairly uniform — they bear the crisply full-flowered taste we often look for in a good table wine or aperitif . |
| 17 | One factor which investors look for in a safe haven is liquidity . |
| 18 | What should you look for in a primary school , before agreeing to send your child at four ? |
| 19 | But apart from basic maintenance like turning mattresses regularly — every three months , experts recommend — what should a hotelier look for in a good quality hotel bed and what is its average life expectancy ? |
| 20 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 21 | What are houses going for in the old Yorkshire way ? |
| 22 | Reliability , simplicity , small size and light weight are the things to look for in the many models on the market today . |
| 23 | What I want you to look for in the next little passage that we look at is the way that the Sanhedrin present their case to Pontius Pilate . |
| 24 | Kapellan ( 5.22 ) , overdue for a win , should be worth waiting for in the last race at Hove today . |
| 25 | His address will be a significant statement of what the Liberal Democrats stand for in the 1990s and how they can offer new directions for people disillusioned with the political system . |
| 26 | However the first leg performance means InterSpray is third overall and still in with a fighting chance with everything to play for in the third and final legs . |
| 27 | The summit called for rapid completion or progress as regards investment services and insurance , intellectual property , takeovers , the liberalization of road transport as called for in a Dutch memorandum , the harmonization of animal and plant health standards , and the adoption by the end of 1990 of new value added tax and excise duty arrangements and of guidelines on trans-European transport networks . |
| 28 | The Intor work could form the basis of the ‘ Next European Tokamak ’ called for in the 1982–1986 fusion research programme of the European Economic Community . |
| 29 | An increase of the Fixed Satellite Service band is proposed between 3.5GHz and 3.6GHz while flexibility is called for in the existing bands for Fixed Satellite Service and the Broadcasting Satellite Service , particularly between 11GHz and 12GHz . |
| 30 | Several items called for in the Digital Servo Interface are ‘ specials ’ and will not be available locally . |