Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 2 | Fred was now fully wound up for an argument . |
| 3 | Outsiders have looked hard for an arrangement for the southern Slavs . |
| 4 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 5 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent are stated in section 1(1) of the Patents Act 1977 as follows : A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied , that is to say — a ) the invention is new ; b ) it involves an inventive step ; c ) it is capable of industrial application ; d ) the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) below … |
| 6 | Be prepared also for an interview with an immigration panel at the country 's High Commission or Embassy in London . |
| 7 | PLANS have been drawn up for an education resource centre at the Greenfield Valley Heritage Park near Holywell . |
| 8 | As we have seen , he argues that trade union government will be relatively centralised where agreements are drawn up for an industry or an entire country , and will be relatively decentralised where they are regionally- or plant-based . |
| 9 | An extensive mutagenesis of the IE-3 binding site had been performed previously for an analysis of the sequence requirements for Vmw175 binding ( 21 ) . |
| 10 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and Alyssia felt suddenly dizzy , as though the breath had been knocked out of her , then she regained her self-control , and replied politely , ‘ I 'll be down for lunch . ’ |
| 11 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and she felt as though he was seeing right into her soul , into bits of her that no one had ever seen before . |
| 12 | It 's beyond our Ken , TV 's voice of soccer and it 's top commentator through the 50s and 60s , that anyone could prefer the domestic Premier League highlights cobbled together for an hour on BBC 's Saturday night Match of the Day . |
| 13 | THE leader of Scotland 's solicitors called yesterday for an end to piecemeal tinkering and urged on the Government a major review of the entire system of justice . |
| 14 | The SPD , whose leader Björn Engholm had offered to co-operate with the government on " specific issues " , countered Kohl 's proposal by insisting that a clear strategy and firm proposals were necessary before such talks could be worthwhile , and called notably for an extension of the temporary 7.5 per cent surcharge on income tax [ see p. 38109 ; pp. 38297-98 ] . |
| 15 | Labour had called repeatedly for an emergency employment package aimed at providing work , training , assistance with job search and paying the proper rate for the job , he said . |
| 16 | Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language . |
| 17 | From the demonstrations of British pluck and enterprise in The Wooden Horse ( 1950 ) , the first of a series of escape pictures , and the celebration of one woman 's heroism in the Anna Neagle-starring Odette ( 1950 ) , through action films such as The Dam Busters ( 1955 ) , The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 , Pursuit of the Graf Spee in US ) and Sink the Bismark ( 1960 ) , there is a sense of well-known events being played out for an audience that already knew about them . |
| 18 | ‘ Good , Fox is on remand in Saughton , I 'll get him brought down for an ID parade , Strathclyde will bring Dalton through for us . |
| 19 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 20 | Some other students — but he knew from experience that his mother would want all the details , and he clearly remembered the time he had slipped out for an evening to meet a girl the only girl he had ever really liked . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , on Tuesday I believe , we shall all be gathered here for an evening together . ’ |
| 22 | WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR HAIR CUT OFF FOR AN ALBUM COVER ? |
| 23 | These take the curriculum and re-present it in ‘ bite-sized pieces ’ , usually in courses of between 20 and 30 hours , which may be put together for an award like GCSE or which can be taken as free-standing units . |
| 24 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 25 | But the bike is only cranked over for an instant before the Australian wrenches it upright and turns on the throttle . |
| 26 | In this country , delivery-ward routines vary from hospital to hospital but there 's no reason for separating mothers and their healthy babies so soon after the birth — measuring and weighing could easily be put off for an hour or two . |
| 27 | The researcher will begin to penetrate the ‘ fronts ’ that are always put up for an outsider , and will work towards developing a true and authentic understanding of the setting . |
| 28 | From the survey , it would seem that many bureaux which own the microfilm system find many uses for it within the bureau when it has not been taken out for an outreach advice session ; it is used for training purposes in order to demonstrate access to and use of information in CAB advice work and it is also used for giving talks to outside groups . |
| 29 | " If he went in at Hew at midnight , he would n't have started downstream for an hour or so . " |
| 30 | EVANDER HOLYFIELD knows that he might already have been consigned to the freak section of world heavyweight championship history had Mike Tyson taken no for an answer in that Indianapolis hotel room . |