Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 2 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 3 | It was from this base that Marian was invited in 1976 to apply to sit as an Assistant Recorder on the North-Eastern Circuit . |
| 4 | Sadly , the forty-five-year-old 's rotund physique proved too much and he was forced to retire for an early bath . |
| 5 | For a bigger event , it is always better to go for an empty room that allows you scope to do your own thing rather than a place which has limiting fixed features . |
| 6 | I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’ |
| 7 | Japan was not unique in the problems faced by her rural population , but her attempts to search for an external outlet for domestic discontent were unusually vigorous . |
| 8 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 9 | Admittedly you often do have to search for an underlying structure in Berlioz 's work . |
| 10 | Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions . |
| 11 | I undertook to make it one of the priorities of our presidency of the European Community later this year to carry through an improved trade and co-operation agreement with Russia . |
| 12 | Reporting a rape remains a strenuous and harrowing experience , however , and it is likely to continue as an underreported offence . |
| 13 | The republican CP left the CPSU on Aug. 29 , intending to continue as an independent party . |
| 14 | The county court , often in the person of the chief clerk , will arrange for the debtor to attend for an oral examination as to his means , The debtor 's answers are recorded and signed , becoming the basis of a realistic payment order by instalments in many cases . |
| 15 | Young was later to go through an Engels-like change of heart , though it was clear that he was sceptical from the start ( see his contribution to Taylor , Walton and Young , 1975 ) . |
| 16 | It was n't just that Major appeared to have accepted a dare to go through an entire broadcast without offering a single specific incentive of any kind for people to vote for him , but Brunson , an experienced broadcaster , was even odder . |
| 17 | This scheme allowed individuals to arrange for an interest-free loan of up to DFl.12,500 ( £4,460 ; $7,140 ) to finance the purchase of a work of art . |
| 18 | Phillips was first to go after an off-the-ball incident that escaped the attention of most people in the ground . |
| 19 | Nevertheless separate meetings which President Vassiliou and Denktash held with the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on Nov. 29 and Dec. 4 , 1989 , resulted in both sides accepting an invitation from Pérez de Cuéllar to meet for an indefinite period in search of an agreement , starting on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 20 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 21 | In 1991 he had resigned as a member of the FLN 's central committee in order to stand as an independent candidate in the abortive general election of December 1991 . |
| 22 | While it is not easy to establish as an empirical matter what the current income-wealth distribution is , even if it could be established , the question of what degree of inequality should be the trigger for government policy remains . |
| 23 | If it is said of a barrister that he has refused to appear for an unsavoury criminal , the ordinary reader may applaud , but his professional reputation is lowered amongst colleagues who understand the story to mean that he has betrayed his ethical duty to appear for all who seek his services . |
| 24 | Hetty had left the shop to work in an ordnance factory soon after Sarah returned , and now to add to the misery of the two girls , Mabel went to train as an auxiliary nurse and Mrs Dyson 's sister came to take charge of the shop . |
| 25 | AIl five have been offered the vacancies they wanted : one to be a military policewoman , another a driver , the third to train as an administrative assistant , While the other two are destined to be a staff clerk and a telecommunications operator . |
| 26 | According to Edward Altman , that would have been enough to compensate for an annual default rate of 5–6% — around three times actual default rates — so the returns looked delicious . |
| 27 | The deployment of other groups of staff should take account also of the needs of the service and aim to provide for an even distribution . |
| 28 | Born Lynda Titchmarsh , she went to RADA at 15 to train for an acting career . |
| 29 | With primordial black holes being so scarce , it might seem unlikely that there would be one near enough for us to observe as an individual source of gamma rays . |
| 30 | We must always remember that there is nothing that compels anybody to work for an individual company even in an era of high unemployment . |