Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 2 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 3 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 4 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 5 | With bad luck , the phenomenon could even develop into the sort of cash-cow that speakeasies became for organised crime in the United States under Prohibition . |
| 6 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 7 | The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education . |
| 8 | Several methods of pedestrian flow and journey data collection were considered and 10 pre-Christmas shopping days of automated photographic data were gathered for one street in Nottingham city centre in a pilot study to test collection and interpretation procedures . |
| 9 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 10 | Example tasks are given for each skill in relation to a particular content area . |
| 11 | Awards are given for outstanding achievement in the protection and enhancement of the architectural and natural heritage , the improvement of the environment and the encouragement of high standards of architecture in town and country planning throughout Europe . |
| 12 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 13 | To progress the analysis to the level at which activities could be identified , a root definition was developed for each sub-system in turn , and a second-level conceptual model constructed . |
| 14 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 15 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 16 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
| 17 | Evidence from Re-Os isotopes for plume-lithosphere mixing in Karoo flood basalt genesis |
| 18 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 19 | A sample of all juvenile cases referred for criminal behaviour in one calendar month in two police force areas collected and followed up to examine the decisions taken about them . |
| 20 | Given diminishing marginal utility of income , more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period . |
| 21 | Trees such as poplars , elms , limes and oaks account for much shrinkage in soil and should not be closer to the building than 1.5 times their own height . |
| 22 | These included inner-city offices for the Small Firms Service of the Department of Trade and Industry ; grants for inner-city Local Enterprise Agencies ( see Chapter 8 ) ; higher loan guarantees for small business in the Task Force ( see Chapter 4 ) ; and investment of about £10 million in managed workshops by English Estates — a development agency of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 23 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 24 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 25 | Now she asked for white wine in her charged voice . |
| 26 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 27 | The US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing a new staff report on the anti-trust allegations against Microsoft Corp , but a decision on the matter probably is still weeks away , lawyers familiar with the case told the Wall Street Journal : with a two-to-two vote in February , the commission did n't accept staff recommendations to seek an injunction preventing the company from using its market power to engage in allegedly unfair competitive practices ; after the tied vote , the commissioners asked for more information in an effort to resolve the deadlock ; the status report , which was delivered to commissioners last week , provides additional support for the staff 's call for action . |
| 28 | It should be noted that liability is confined to " consumer goods " intended for private use in the course of a business . |
| 29 | Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast . |
| 30 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |