Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | During the active growing season , prepare the rooting area as if for a seedbed and scope out a gentle dip in which the branch will lie comfortably . |
| 2 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 3 | Mrs Danby , who was dressed in sporty tweeds , as if for a shooting party , gave a superior kind of nod . |
| 4 | The object , like the subject , has no consonants , and is attained by pushing the lips forward as if for a kiss . |
| 5 | Where an officer of government in the exercise of his office obtains payment of moneys as and for a charge which the law enables him to demand and enforce , such moneys may be recovered back from him if it should afterwards turn out that they were not legally payable even though no protest was made or question raised at the time of payment . |
| 6 | Where a firm deals with or for a customer it must take all reasonable steps to deal on the terms which are the best available for the customer in the circumstances . |
| 7 | They were unlike anything ever seen before and for a while even the term ‘ Dalek Operator ’ , credited at the end of each episode , substantiated the myth that they were actually radio-controlled robots . |
| 8 | Given what has been said , further , a mental event is not necessarily what is sometimes called a whole mental state , which is to say all of a person 's consciousness at or for a time , but typically is a part of a whole mental state , a part which itself has parts . |