Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to the resolution , the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met for preliminary talks in the Georgian capital , Tbilisi , on March 30 . |
| 2 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 3 | The alternative , according to response competition is : ‘ Ricky will remain for longer periods in his place doing what he is supposed to ’ . |
| 4 | Many of the children in care were young , and unless positive steps to plan for their future were taken , they would continue like the older children in their sample to wait for lengthy periods in care . |
| 5 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 6 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 7 | This may seem to be a gloomy picture but it must be noted that , in relation to work , age is not a large aspect of individual differences compared with natural endowment , and that increases in ability can more than compensate for small decreases in capacity . |
| 8 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 9 | Disciplined operating procedures can be followed more readily and this will make for smoother performances in all areas . |
| 10 | On average a school pupil enrols for 2.2 modules in a year compared to 5.6 modules for an FE student . |
| 11 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 12 | Unlike the BBC radio stations , which are funded by the television licence fee , the independents depend almost entirely for their revenues on advertising , which they can broadcast for nine minutes in an hour . |
| 13 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 14 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 15 | Simply to maintain current patterns of expenditure will require considerable expansion of the budget , without allowing for technological changes in service provision . |
| 16 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 17 | Now , with the completion of these treatment plants and THORP , BNFL is seeking to vary discharge authorisations , but even allowing for projected increases in some contributions , the overall total dose resulting from the discharges will remain very low . |
| 18 | The Independent of Feb. 26 reported that the armed forces had lobbied for political changes in Sind in the aftermath of the Karachi violence earlier in the month . |
| 19 | A number of different dates are given for these events in Molla Husrev 's career by various authors , both early and late . |
| 20 | We rode for five hours in the rain . |
| 21 | Four HNC trainees were recruited and training plans developed for offshore duties in the instrumentation field . |
| 22 | The sentence of Poindexter 's former subordinate , Oliver North , had been overturned for similar reasons in July 1990 [ see p. 37605 ] , but the appellate panel now went further by refusing to allow Walsh to return to the trial judge and attempt to show that the trial testimony was not tainted , as had been permitted in North 's case . |
| 23 | Schools will therefore have to plan for possible alterations in price and salary changes throughout the year . |
| 24 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 25 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 26 | But while much of Africa is clamouring for multi-party elections in the hope of replacing indifferent or corrupt governments , the prospect of political freedom is met with apprehension in Uganda . |
| 27 | If , for example , three known positions are input to the program before each session with the pantograph the software can compensate for any changes in the expected readings due to wear and tear or temperature . |
| 28 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 29 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 30 | LTP-related changes in Ca 2+ homeostasis could in principle account for persistent changes in transmitter release . |