Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to see that for a disabled applicant , but nevertheless , for a registered disabled applicant , and we can make special provision for the training of er , under represented groups . |
| 2 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 3 | It is not sufficient for example to establish that for a given country inside the union exports and/or imports rise after integration . |
| 4 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 5 | She had gone to work first for a radical magazine , perched in a cramped office behind Kings Cross . |
| 6 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 7 | In 1845 he started a wholesale grocery business in Liverpool , and later a printing business ; hard work and a good business sense allowed him to sell these for a small fortune in 1856 . |
| 8 | It was beginning to look ominous for the Light Blues , as the final bend favoured Oxford . |
| 9 | So now , I want you to use that for a full month , and come back up , and let us know how things are doing . |
| 10 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 11 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 12 | Jose Urbina Lara , leader of the group , who stormed the embassy on 8 March , stayed behind at the airport but was expected to leave later for the Dominican Republic , where he has been granted asylum . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't be like that , ’ said Mr Pilcher , and he then gave me to understand that for an unspecified weekly consideration I could purchase his protection , allowing me and Mrs Mouse to continue with our musical evenings without their being gate-crashed by him and his colleagues . |
| 14 | erm In this area , all our ‘ weather ’ as we call it , rain , cloud , and wind , mostly occur , so we have to study this for the general forecast point of view . |
| 15 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 16 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 17 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |
| 18 | Having already paid for my return ticket I was cross at having to buy another one , and even more upset at having to pay extra for the one-way ticket and convert sterling at an unfavourable rate . |
| 19 | There is , of course , a heater and a heated rear screen and even a wash/wipe mechanism fitted to the hard top but once that has been removed , a five minute , two man job , the driver is at the mercy of the elements unless he is willing to pay extra for the folding soft top . |
| 20 | While by 1986 the government itself conceded some of these criticisms , it flatly rejected calls for the abolition of capital controls and put forward proposals which , if introduced , seem likely to maintain these for the foreseeable future ( Paying for Local Government , ch. 6 ) . |
| 21 | We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth . |
| 22 | ‘ We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth . |
| 23 | Palmerston replied that he was glad to have the assurance of ‘ trained men of science and judgement ’ , and although he felt that Gothic might be suitable in the country , he was determined to have Italian for the present purpose . |
| 24 | These records can frighten parents because some behaviours are seen to get worse for a short period . |
| 25 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |
| 26 | Now we have to get ready for the New Year . |
| 27 | Is Synod willing to take this for the general assembly as a nomination for erm if she agrees to nomination for moderator general assembly . |
| 28 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 29 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | Or even , Rachel wondered , ‘ You 've got to say this for the old girl , she does keep on trying . ’ |