Example sentences of "[adj] of [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rapidly gulping down the first drink ( or starting on spirits before changing to beer or wine ) may be indicative of craving for the " feel " of alcohol . |
| 2 | Hilton was certainly conscious of writing for a wide monastic audience , but The Ladder is ostensibly written for a nun , who was enclosed in a convent and bound by traditional monastic disciplines , but who also seemed about to begin a more solitary life . |
| 3 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |
| 4 | Last week , the Montgomery County ( Maryland ) chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) , tired of waiting for the police to solve the case and for NIH to comment on the report , held a press conference to express its outrage at the events of the past seven months and to demand that the lives of those affected ‘ be made whole ’ . |
| 5 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 6 | They urged Prime Minister Miklós Németh to reveal who had been privy to the intelligence information , and called for the dismissal of Interior Minister István Horváth ; they stopped short of calling for the government 's resignation , however , saying that the country needed stability before the elections . |
| 7 | Some may see the bird 's warning cry as falling short of lying for a further reason . |
| 8 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 9 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 10 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 11 | Nor is it to deny that a society capable of providing for the fulfilment of all human needs , all the time , would eliminate the need for money altogether . |
| 12 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 13 | Peter said that although fifth was a respectable position he felt the team was capable of pushing for the top spot and added the society was eager for new blood . |
| 14 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 15 | They are quite capable of paying for the resource they want and they want to provide it , but they 're just not allowed to do it . |
| 16 | These tend to be those least capable of caring for a child , or those bearing a foetus with malformations for which the diagnosis is time-consuming . |
| 17 | ‘ Debbie could certainly be capable of working for a hairdresser in some capacity , ’ says Fergus Stewart , a lecturer at the Central Manchester College of Technology where Mrs Finni had Debbie briefly enrolled this spring after her local branch of the Amnesia Association suggested a visit . |
| 18 | Did not this column say , when the apparently creaking colossus joined Durham , that as long as he is capable of playing for a county he must play for England . |
| 19 | Lazio 's manager , Dino Zoff , says that Gascoigne is all he needs to have a team capable of challenging for the title . |
| 20 | For example , this theory is incapable of accounting for the phenomenon of redundancies : workers surely do not want to be made redundant in order to indulge their desire for longer holidays . |
| 21 | His hand had dropped to her shoulder and Maria stared at him , immobilised by the fascination he exerted and incapable of speaking for a moment , for all the hot rebellion boiling up in her mind . |
| 22 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |