Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it evaporated and Darren Wassle was eventually dismissed for a crime which bore no resemblance to the magnitude of the sentence , well Palace must have fancied their chances . |
| 2 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 3 | Although the evidence for these flights is little better than anecdotal , sufficient information is available in his published and private papers to make possible the construction of a reproduction of the latter machine , which was successfully flown for a television film in 1972 . |
| 4 | Now is it not they 'll ask you , reasonable to recycle some of those savings and surely regain the into the provision of those ten fire officers that the service so badly needs for a number of years now the Fire Inspector 's report has identified the confidence levels as we in our service . |
| 5 | In successfully pressing for a referendum on the Common Market , he obliged Wilson to suspend the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsibility , an event without precedent since the National Government had done the same on the free-trade issue in the early thirties . |
| 6 | The University was fortunate in successfully bidding for a capital grant from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) towards the cost of a £1.5 million extension of the Pathfoot Building , now completed and being used to re-locate the Department of History with the rest of the School of Arts in Pathfoot . |
| 7 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 8 | Kerry , president of the Committee for the Search of American Servicemen Missing in Action , had long pressed for a lifting of the US trade embargoes against Vietnam and Cambodia . |
| 9 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 10 | According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle this ‘ virtual ’ photon can only exist for a time . |
| 11 | Otherwise , I thought the specifications somewhat limited for a camera of this price . |
| 12 | Grants of any kind are usually only given for a proportion of the cost of the work to be done , but when necessary , local authorities can make loans for the balance , on which interest has to be paid . |
| 13 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 14 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 15 | He had only to go for a spin with Freddie Reynalde or spend half an hour too long in the pub for her shoulders to slump and her eyes to fill . |
| 16 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 17 | It 's never going to rumble through the floor in the way that a similarly priced 4x10 would , but they 're obviously catering for a gap in the market which is n't being filled very successfully . |
| 18 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 19 | But this merely delayed for a while the inevitable . |
| 20 | Those moths that settle there will probably only stay for a day and then continue higher still . |
| 21 | Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’ |
| 22 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 23 | A news item in 1988 concerning a 590cm. ( approximately 19ft. ) long pilot whale washed up at Talland Bay recalls other sea mammals washed up on our coastline , one of which apparently qualified for a church burial . |
| 24 | The B film was a Western starring Randolph Scott , and when that was over he would watch Jane Russell again , and somewhere in between he would eat his boiled egg and perhaps sleep for a while . |
| 25 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 26 | The author seemed somewhat stumped for a reply to such an unusual question and stared into the camera , as if in search of inspiration . |
| 27 | Unless you are fortunate enough to work for a company that recognises this need , there are basically two options available for that initial promotion . |
| 28 | They are complicated and obviously designed for a purpose , yet they are not alive , and they are made of metal and plastic rather than of flesh and blood . |
| 29 | Yet rehabilitation was only expected for a minority about 25 per cent — of all the children in the study . |
| 30 | Merely looking for a person is not an assault : Arobieke [ 1988 ] Crim LR 314 ( CA ) . |