Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not uncommon to wait for 5 hours for the result to be obtained . |
| 2 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 3 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 4 | Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern . |
| 5 | Exit trainee thespian to toilet for good cry for no obvious reason . |
| 6 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 7 | Our second should be to search for appropriate measures for comparison . |
| 8 | A fairly simple algorithm has been implemented to search for possible alternatives for these letter positions , given the surrounding candidate letters ( as detailed in section 3.4.1 ) . |
| 9 | At a time when it is increasingly popular to search for complex explanations for continuing or increasing levels of unsafe sexual behaviour among gay and bisexual men the most obvious explanation — lack of continuing education about safer sex — must not be overlooked . |
| 10 | ‘ I really came to search for some things for my collection . ’ |
| 11 | It would also be my advice to arrange for several quotations for the finance . |
| 12 | Vince Cannon , a long-serving England squad member , has decided to retire after 438 games for Northampton . |
| 13 | The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country . |
| 14 | But this was not a wholly popular view as most reporters welcomed the chance to write about naughty knickers for a change and leaven the fare of their working lives . |
| 15 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 16 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 17 | In contemporary terms , therefore , his diagnoses were too inexact to stand as definitive evidence for ( or against ) a connection between creativity and madness , as we would now construe it . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the two Ulster courses and Dundalk have to suffer through poor entries for their jumping races . |
| 19 | I was to work for smelly Perkins for a whole week . |
| 20 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 21 | The wealthier survived because they had control of tracts of good land , but the poorer villagers had to sell the little land they had , to pay off debts and were compelled to work as landless labourers for the rich . |
| 22 | Plagued with illness after working with glass fibre , she gave up carving to work with other media for casting into bronze . |
| 23 | Some Eastern European countries — the USSR , for example — have attempted to deal with this problem by directing professional staff to work in certain areas for a limited number of years , as well as providing them with incentives in terms of higher salaries , pension rights , housing , etc . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd got into the situation where I had a darkroom at home , the use of a studio in the West End and I was starting to suffer from severe guilt for not making full use of all these resources at my disposal . |
| 25 | This was to compensate in some way for the rather poor salaries . |
| 26 | Recently such speakers have tended more and more to disappear from sociolinguistic studies for a variety of reasons . |
| 27 | With or without Horkheimer , with or without the Frankfurt School , the name of Adorno has come to stand in cultural criticism for an immediately knowable , instantly impeachable thought-crime : ‘ cultural pessimism ’ . |
| 28 | Certainly he trained at Bologna and was a doctor of civil law by c .1270 , when he was invited to lecture on civil law for a year by the city of Modena in northern Italy . |
| 29 | Aleksandr Shokhin was relieved of his post as Employment Minister on June 14 , in order to concentrate on new responsibilities for foreign economic relations . |
| 30 | But he declined to comment on future plans for the Toledo-based factory , saying that managers at the Spanish subsidiary were responsible for that . |