Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How about that for a Freudian slip ? ’ he murmured . |
| 2 | I imagine you 'll want to think about that for a little while . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ About that for an average spring — more if there 's wind behind it , a good deal less on the neaps . ’ |
| 4 | Another opportunity for individual teaching occurs when the learner acts as assistant for a clinical procedure . |
| 5 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 6 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 8 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
| 9 | They 've known they 've known about this for a fair while . |
| 10 | How about this for a cheeky goal … skipper Chris Myers caught Town asleep with a quickly taken free kick … |
| 11 | How about this for an abstract idea ! |
| 12 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 13 | Someone tried to organise a concert party , and there was a great deal of enthusiasm for this for a short time . |
| 14 | I ordered Andrew one , Andrew has been after one for a long time . |
| 15 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 16 | You had some access to the Berlin Philharmonic after 1939 for the occasional recording , despite Furtwängler 's jealousy , also the Berlin Staatskapelle , and occasional opportunities to work with , say , the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra . |
| 17 | Party chairman Chris Patten , the tragic hero of the hour , arrived shortly after 11.00 for a lengthy post-mortem . |
| 18 | It will be over a quarter of that for the entire EC , more than twice West Germany 's and equivalent to those of France , Belgium , Denmark , Luxembourg , Greece , Ireland and Portugal added together . |
| 19 | Labour disputes declined during 1990 ; the number of strikes was only 25 per cent of that for the previous year . |
| 20 | THE cry of SPRED for the past 25 years is that ‘ No-one believes alone ’ . |
| 21 | We must look at this quest for beauty as a purpose more real and noble than the quest of the knights of old for the Holy Grail . |
| 22 | The current total , made up of 1,491 young men and 838 young women , is a drop of less than 1 percent from the figure of 2,348 for the previous month . |
| 23 | It costs thirteen shillings instead of twelve-and-six for the standard brands , so I 'm not giving it to heathens who spoil its flavour with ice . ’ |
| 24 | A prime example of this is a silver rams-horn presentation piece which , despite being dated 1905 ( outside the normal cut-off date of 1892 for the Fair ) , has been wholeheartedly accepted for exhibition . |
| 25 | The Whigs rejected Lord Lyndhurst 's bill of 1842 for a small debts court , and the Lords shelved Lord Cottenham 's bill which The Times called ‘ as masterly a measure as was ever submitted to Parliament ’ , in deference to a pet bill which Lord Brougham had drafted . |
| 26 | Similarly , a cut-off value of 2.6 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum urea ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 76% , and positive predictive value of 65% for distinguishing the two conditions , and a cut-off value of 0.15 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum creatinine ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 73% , and positive predictive value of 63% . |
| 27 | If you are caring for an elderly parent who is at some stage of grieving for a lost partner , whether she is experiencing the shattering despair that follows soon after bereavement , or the long sad loneliness and feeling of deprivation characteristic of its later stages , her deepest need will be for your practical and emotional support during her period of sorrow and adjustment . |
| 28 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 29 | Most threatening of these for the marine ecosystem is the exposure to increased ultra-violet radiation through the depletion of the ozone layer . |
| 30 | We 're doing a hundred and seventy nine of these for the British Army . |