Example sentences of "for a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hucklecote made most of the early running and took the lead on six minutes , Steve Barslow converting a penalty , and they increased that lead after a quarter of an hour when Mark Halkins went over for a try following good work from Steve Hamslow . |
| 2 | For this reason , the database community is looking for a standard means that 'll allow users to access and exchange data across different database schemas . |
| 3 | For this reason , the database community is looking for a standard means that 'll enable users to access and exchange data across different database schemas . |
| 4 | Cows and calves sold to £1,060 for a Simmental third calver with a Charolais calf at foot and to £925 for a second calver Simmental with a Limousin calf at foot . |
| 5 | He was transferred after waiting a further month for a bed to become vacant . |
| 6 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale was last night starting the tough task of rebuilding his squad for a promotion push next season . |
| 7 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 8 | For Coldingham ( c ) turn left inland on tarmacked track between café and lifeguard hut and follow road ( signposted path runs parallel to it on right-hand side for a distance to avoid road-walking ) . |
| 9 | Clearly it is easier for a minister to accept this sort of legislation than to develop a policy that effectively changes the direction of a great deal of work going on within the department . |
| 10 | For a child to feel free to respond to a make-believe situation , there must be sufficient signals in the environment reminding him that the real world continues to exist . |
| 11 | Keep fighting for a law to stop this glue sniffing |
| 12 | He warns us against being seduced by ‘ a new and … illiberal ‘ liberal ’ orthodoxy' designed to accommodate demands for a law protecting Islamic sensitivities . |
| 13 | When he reached the workhouse , he waited for a minute to make sure his face was suitably tearful and frightened . |
| 14 | The need to make such a comment for a pedigree breed that is clearly stated to be all-black in colour is a powerful reminder that the little white patches and flashes are still persisting , even after a century of specialized , selective breeding . |
| 15 | It is not possible for a lexicon to provide full coverage of language . |
| 16 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 17 | Lewis is looking for a catalyst to recapture some of its original vigour and purpose . |
| 18 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 19 | Berkshire County Council is looking for a writer to spend two months in Vienne , France , and represent the county in the ‘ European Writers in Vienne Festival ’ in the autumn . |
| 20 | This is the time for a foreigner to see English youth and beauty at its best … |
| 21 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 22 | If you had to choose a place for a factory making some similar consumer goods , perhaps pop records , which city , on either side of the Pennines , do you think would be best , and why ? |
| 23 | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan has launched an appeal for a centre to rescue orphaned and injured Mediterranean monk seals , whose numbers have collapsed in recent years to the point where they are , according to the Prince , " one of the most forgotten creatures on earth " . |
| 24 | The age of consent for a girl to have sexual intercourse is sixteen , and therefore any male over fourteen having sex with a girl under sixteen has actually committed an illegal act . |
| 25 | It is clear that for a girl to have any chance of succeeding , she must play the Tour in some style . |
| 26 | It is shown in Appendix 7 that , for a cylinder holding one hundred records and with other conditions as given above , the average retrieval time for all the records in the file will be 0.78R , where R is the rotation time of the device . |
| 27 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 28 | But with half an hour gone the poor quality of United 's final ball had left Cantona stranded and still looking for a chance to put some flesh on Ferguson 's bold predictions . |
| 29 | For a chance to win one of these exciting prizes , simply list who you think will be in the 12-man European team for the 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island . |
| 30 | Answer the questions below for a chance to win 12 boxes of HILIFE Gourmet Complete Moist Dog food — Beef and Cheddar Cheese variety . |