Example sentences of "[vb -s] for a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand will play three-times former champion Jeremy Bates or qualifier Mike Wyeth for a place in Sunday 's final . |
| 2 | The curious nature of the first-person plural relationship in the Sonnets [ + ego , + tu ] is that it is so infrequent ( twelve times only ) and that even when it occurs it is tenuous , fragile , or , as here , stands for a union in falseness . |
| 3 | I do n't get tired unlike some of the other drivers and experience counts for a lot in this sport |
| 4 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 5 | When a toad looks for a pond in which to spawn , chances are it 's going on memory . |
| 6 | And we lack provisions that allows for a presidency in the absence of a minister is a good one as long as it is monitored closely by district council . |
| 7 | The contract allows for a change in kit design within the next five years . |
| 8 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 9 | The use of a new computer software distribution program calls for a reduction in manpower from three to two in the traffic clerks ' office . |
| 10 | NEWSAGENTS will today be urged to back calls for a change in the law to protect them from becoming innocent victims of the law which prevents tobacco being sold to under-age youngsters . |
| 11 | The influential US Senate minority leader Bob Dole calls for a cut in foreign aid to Israel . |
| 12 | Mr Patten calls for a shift in Church attitudes . |
| 13 | This impression of the infinitive event 's already being in the bag calls for a representation in which there is no separation between the event denoted by the infinitive and that denoted by bid , no way to conceive the bidding as existing without the infinitive 's event also being actualized . |
| 14 | Jones is not challenging the verdict of the FA commission , which found him guilty of bringing the game into disrepute , but he hopes for a reduction in the heaviest punishment ever imposed on an individual player . |
| 15 | It now hopes for a future in the software design and systems integration market for massively parallel systems , but aside from an image processing library has no obvious product ready , and would not elucidate further . |
| 16 | In second place was Tony Jones , of Langley Park , who also qualifies for a place in the semi-finals at the Rose Manor Hotel , Boroughbridge , near York . |
| 17 | I sat down with LIFE and worked through their philosophy , erm in line with our own as it were , and they agreed , and I would ask them to agree this year that any paperwork or any leaflets they distribute make it very clear that a choice remains for a woman in terms of whether or not she should have an abortion , because LIFE is fairly , yes , Michael ? |
| 18 | The former makes for a flexibility in design and allows for local idiosyncrasies , while the latter are slightly quicker and ensure that the craftsman spends less time working in the room which is to receive the decoration . |
| 19 | Sir : In her article ( 'The child as a piece of disposable property' , 2 October ) , Sue Wells argues for a change in adoption law so as to bring it nearer an open adoption system , whereby adopted children remain in contact with birth parents . |
| 20 | Dickinson argues for a change in the organisation of the industry as chronologically earlier pairs show less variation than later examples ; this may only be a change in ability and need not relate to changes in the medium used to make models . |
| 21 | Intuitively , what is happening here is that the force which argues for an increase in output ( fall in prices ) from the double marginalization position in monopoly is being outweighed by a force which argues for a decrease in output ( increase in price ) from the duopoly position . |
| 22 | ‘ I have an old friend who works for a publisher in New York and I stayed with her for a couple of weeks while I found a job . |
| 23 | Harriet works for a time in a ‘ gown-shop ’ and takes part in the rather gruesome beauty treatment of the other ‘ sales-ladies ’ . |