Example sentences of "[vb past] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 2 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 3 | The overnight snooze [ all of one-and-a-half hours ] on the ferry was hardly over when it was time to drive onto Reims , where crews from Oslo , Berlin and Edinburgh met for a deserved rest . |
| 4 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 5 | At the end of the month , Raybestos and the IDA applied for a temporary injunction to prevent Michael Lenihan of Ringaskiddy , and anyone acting on his behalf , from picketing the dump site . |
| 6 | Quickly picking up the Efik language and immersing herself in work amongst the women , Mary applied for a remote station where she could live frugally and send more of her £60 salary to her family in Scotland . |
| 7 | I recently applied for a home-improvement loan that would raise my present mortgage above the building society 's original valuation of the property . |
| 8 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 9 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |
| 10 | The question of who is an " occupant " is discussed in Paterson v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 37 , where a new manager who applied for a permanent transfer of an off sale licence was held not to be an " occupant " where he had no interest in the premises other than as an employee . |
| 11 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 12 | In December 1937 he applied for a short-service commission in the RAF and to his evident amazement was accepted and sent for elementary flying training in 90 m.p.h . |
| 13 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 14 | • PSA 's R&D department is reportedly working on two new high-power engines — a V8 developing 250bhp and a 16-valve 2.1-litre turbo unit with 200bhp , slated for a future sporting Citroen ZX . |
| 15 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 16 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 17 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 18 | Eighty lots sold for a respectable total of £4.19 million ( $6.29 million ) , with only nine lots failing to find buyers . |
| 19 | A KESTREL swooped for a refreshing stop at a waterfall in a little garden paradise high above a busy South London road . |
| 20 | This would almost make it only eligible for a speculative developer who reckoned he might be able to pull the right political strings to get the site suitably rezoned for a later sell-on . |
| 21 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 22 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 23 | It is a remarkable finding from these interviews that of those informants who married before 1918 almost half — and over half if we include those with soldier husbands — lived for an initial period , sometimes brief but often two or more years , with one of their parents before moving into a house of their own . |
| 24 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 25 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 26 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 27 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 28 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 29 | They had , it appears , expended upwards of £100 to that date and Millford asked for a new lease upon Fleming Royalties in Shaw 's and Wildhagen 's names . |
| 30 | Whitehall asked for a slower offtake of the gas , a guarantee that UK companies would share in the development of three platforms in 1990 , 1992 and 1994 , and that the natural gas liquids ( NGLs ) from Sleipner should go by UK pipelines to Flotta in the Orkneys . |