Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is our usual practice to ask for a payment in advance of costs and thereafter to submit an interim bill every six months . |
| 2 | For the Executive Committee of the District and , especially , for Jacques it was also a fresh opportunity to strive for a rejuvenation of Tawney 's basic principle that the WEA was a social movement endeavouring to promote political , social and cultural democracy in post-war England through the processes of liberal adult education . |
| 3 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 4 | So , in closing I would to take this opportunity to apologise for a late magazine last Autumn , it was the only hiccup in the new system , and assure members that , despite losing our magazine to outsiders for a little while , it is well worth it … happy reading . |
| 5 | SCOTLAND — SCOTLAND have qualified for the last five World Cup finals , but with only one point from two games they already face an uphill struggle to qualify for a sixth time . |
| 6 | Is he aware that the chief inspector of prisons , Judge Tumim , has deplored any possible demise of the Apex Trust , that the Archbishop of Canterbury is raising private funds for the trust and that the Secretary of State received an all-party delegation to ask for a rescue package for it ? |
| 7 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 8 | I ask the hon. Lady to relax for a moment . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think it is fair to expect this lady to pay for a new lock . |
| 10 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 11 | He says this morning one of our postmen was asked to work a different shift to cover for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 12 | It is appropriate at this point to digress for a moment on the subject of the faunistic changes that took place at the end of the Palaeozoic . |
| 13 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 14 | Janice , who switched to nights this week to cover for a colleague , today told the Echo : ‘ He stood next to me and did not look at all shifty . |
| 15 | During the takeover battle , questions were raised about the desirability of allowing a foreign airline to bid for a British airline , providing access to Britain 's second largest ‘ hub ’ . |
| 16 | It is normal for this sensitivity to remain for a few flights and then gradually to disappear . |
| 17 | It can sometimes be argued that the child 's interests will be served by allowing a parent or another party to the proceedings further time to prepare for a hearing but this will depend very much on the circumstances of the case . |
| 18 | Manager Jim McCorry , who twice played against Fermanagh in the championship , is desperately hoping for a prolonged run to compensate for a disappointing and dismal league campaign . |
| 19 | These two facets are complementary rather than necessarily exclusive — an EEIG could come together as a multi-disciplinary vehicle to tender for a construction , engineering or hi-tech project , whether within or outside the Community . |
| 20 | The call for the entire squadron to scramble for a major transferral had come at 0.700 hours . |
| 21 | Leave the dough in a warm place to rise for a further 20min , then brush with melted butter and place in the oven . |
| 22 | Once the usual carpetbaggers , liars and opportunists had been discounted , there was a heart-lifting common thread , a real desire to work for a paper promising to lift them out of the cynicism and virtual despair of the current newspaper scene . |
| 23 | There is no golden rule as to what is the appropriate price to pay for a particular business . |
| 24 | In big years , Aube wines may also possess too much alcohol to allow for a second fermentation and effect the correct balance . |
| 25 | The frisson of angry surprise and the instant impulse to prepare for a resort to arms which greeted the inevitable puncturing of those myths were therefore emotions I could neither share nor understand . |
| 26 | You wo n't have much luggage to carry for a weekend . |
| 27 | Like Newman , he frequently used his official status to polemicize for a holistic conception of medicine , which took in moral and social factors as part of the new scientific advances . |
| 28 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 29 | It had not left much time to arrange for a reception committee . |
| 30 | We often need to calculate square footage , or area , in everyday life — eg how much carpet to buy for a room , the amount of turf needed for a new lawn , the size of a new kitchen … |