Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 2 | Funds can be switched on the same day from one currency to another by use of a personal identification number ( PIN ) , free of charge save for the foreign exchange commission of 0.1% , minimum £5 , maximum £20 . |
| 3 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 4 | There must evidently have been some panic to get the depôt clear in time to reopen for service cars . |
| 5 | The state legislature was thereby able to be much more generous in capital grants for future building , and for improving the salaries of correctional officers . |
| 6 | At times when the government has been responsive to union calls for intervention , appeal to the minister has become a defacto final stage of the machinery . |
| 7 | This body quickly laid plans to raise a primary-season budget of US$26,000,000 , the maximum amount allowable in order to qualify for federal matching funds . |
| 8 | At present many more employers than employees are legally represented , and it is not uncommon for counsel to appear for employers . |
| 9 | Appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that staff working for the vendors are not involved in work performed for the purchaser or vice versa . |
| 10 | The Lawrence 's lie awake at night waiting for the sounds of breaking glass from next door . |
| 11 | She was n't lying when she told me about him and she lies awake at night crying for him . |
| 12 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 13 | FEARS were expressed last night that Cheshire County Council could be £10m short of cash to care for the elderly . |
| 14 | They got it when Inzamam was short of speed returning for a second run , and Malcolm 's throw from third man was slickly relayed by Russell to the bowler 's end . |
| 15 | Wall treatments vary from red or green with wood wainscotting for the Renaissance and Baroque pictures , to pale shades with chair rails for the Rococo , to lighter colours for the Impressionists , and stark white for modern and contemporary . |
| 16 | is frank in fact playing for the reserves or is he totally ‘ put in the freezer ’ ? |
| 17 | R. rubrifolia is the rose much beloved by flower arrangers for the copper-mauve foliage . |
| 18 | He is a prolific inventor who helped to start the environmental revolution and , as a result of work undertaken for NASA , studied the conditions necessary for the continued existence of life and found that the Earth constituted a self-regulatory system whereby each of the many variable factors , such as temperature and the composition of air , sea and soil , had been kept within the narrow limits necessary for life to survive for the entire history of the planet . |
| 19 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |