Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Overall we are more than pleased as the aim was to bring young players on for the 1995 World Cup , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 3 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 4 | Now the search is on for the best container display in Britain . |
| 5 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 6 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 7 | The search is on for the best pancake tosser in the North . |
| 8 | He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . |
| 9 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 10 | They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 11 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 12 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 13 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 14 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 15 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 16 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 17 | on for the first time yesterday |
| 18 | And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year . |
| 19 | Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day . |
| 20 | If you attempt to pass the SPR on for the seventh time or to the same user twice , LIFESPAN will display an error message and you will not be allowed to pass it on . |
| 21 | Memphis signed on for the subsequent tour and expanded the exhibition , featuring the Rameses Colossus in the 1987 showing in the Memphis Cook Convention Center . |
| 22 | The last I heard Trish was going to become a teacher , I mean I I we are supposed to be trying to think about whether we can have a sh a panel that we of people that we can call on for the short term crisis appointments or whatever , but |
| 23 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 24 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 25 | Arguments about this change continue to rage , and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future . |
| 26 | As the military mutiny dragged on for the sixth day , President Corazon Aquino asked Filipinos to ‘ join hands and consolidate our resources to rebuild what we have destroyed ’ . |
| 27 | As the military mutiny dragged on for the sixth day , President Corazon Aquino asked Filipinos to ‘ join hands and consolidate our resources to rebuild what we have destroyed ’ . |
| 28 | The light will be left on for the whole time . |
| 29 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 30 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |