Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Advising fans to sit tight for an eleventh hour opportunity to snap up tickets , Mr Mullan said he was ‘ reasonably confident ’ that a few hundred tickets would be sent back to Derry from other county boards unable to use them . |
| 3 | It was beginning to look ominous for the Light Blues , as the final bend favoured Oxford . |
| 4 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 5 | Well we have n't got to go long for the shortest day . |
| 6 | Moreover , the present study indicated that the syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with a necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a tendency to remain increased for a longer time than the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 13 | We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |
| 17 | Now we have to get ready for the New Year . |
| 18 | Soon it 's time for the cyclists to get ready for the next stage of their 1,500 mile journey . |
| 19 | That 's the trouble with though she did n't stop every time to get ready for the next scene . |
| 20 | Would you like to borrow Nutty for a few weeks ? |
| 21 | She was n't likely to become enchanted for the second time this evening — her common sense would see to that . |
| 22 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 23 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 24 | Miranda began to feel curious for a closer look . |
| 25 | Organisers tried to make good for the last minute defection of many major galleries , including the leading Paris furniture specialists , with provincial French replacements , and the quality of goods was often far from top rate . |
| 26 | The intelligentsia came to feel responsible for the Russian economy . |
| 27 | If such exercises are repeated quickly enough to cause you to become breathless for a prolonged period , you will be building stamina too . |