Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a person enters under a contractual right , the common duty of care under the Act will be implied into the contract , unless the contract expressly provides for a higher standard of care . |
| 2 | Whether we have in mind the student teacher , or the art student in the studio , or the student nurse , practical experience necessarily calls for a degree of personal involvement by the student and to that extent it is desirable . |
| 3 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 4 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 5 | The army command long pressed for a local ‘ home guard ’ such as had been the rule in Malaya , Kenya and other terrorist situations . |
| 6 | More significant are the numbers of votes actually cast , since these enter into the calculation of the quota normally required for a candidate 's election . |
| 7 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
| 8 | There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ . |
| 9 | In trusts , however , it has been widely maintained that intention always counted for a lot more than words . |
| 10 | The 1949 Constitution established Costa Rica as a democratic state with an executive President directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 11 | Interestingly , this setting also works for a complete mix , affecting mainly the percussive sounds but leaving the overall feel pretty much unchanged . |
| 12 | The President also called for a re-examination of existing plans to phase out CFC substitutes , notably hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) by 2030 . |
| 13 | The President also serves for a four-year term ; if no presidential candidate gains a majority of the vote under direct elections , then the President is elected by the Congress . |
| 14 | The search consequently began for an alternative solution . |
| 15 | This programme would be in addition to government funding already budgeted for a high-speed rail link to the French side of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 16 | I think it would be better , in my own experience , move over to that er the left a little bit just to go for a slightly more interesting composition . |
| 17 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 18 | The Shetland Islands , the most northerly part of the United Kingdom at sixty degrees north , lie well south the true Arctic , but still far enough north that in midsummer the sun only sets for an hour or two . |
| 19 | Pearl has the unenviable reputation of being one of the more sleepy members within a sector not noted for a dynamic approach . |
| 20 | Despite the decline in the growth rate of public service employment since the late 1970s , the public service sector still accounts for a significant proportion of total employment in the service industries . |
| 21 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 22 | The law also provided for a 24 nautical mile " adjacent area " in which the Taiwan government could take precautions against any intrusion . |
| 23 | The Financial Services Act also requires for a body such N C V O that their Memorandum of Association should actually include an explicit power to use investment advisors . |
| 24 | Rolle also refers to three degrees of love in two earlier treatises known as Ego Dormio and The Commandment both written for a nun in the early stages of religious life ( possibly Margaret Kirkeby ) . |
| 25 | However , the Guild also asked for a comprehensive home-help service so that women would not worry about the welfare of younger children and husbands , but this was not forthcoming . |
| 26 | The Central Council also called for a meeting of the so-called " frontline states " ( Egypt , Syria , Lebanon , Jordan and the PLO ) to co-ordinate a unified negotiating position . |
| 27 | The Council also called for an emergency Arab League meeting to discuss the killings . |
| 28 | However the plan also allows for a 36 per cent rise in carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industry and power plants . |
| 29 | The experimenter then waits for a certain amount of time and repeats the experiment to see how well the rat has remembered what it has to do . |
| 30 | Two winters ago , as Taylor tried desperately to revive his career , he spent a winter in the Aussie outback playing for a little-known team called North Kalgoorlie . |