Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attended the medical centre for my test and stood in my underpants for an hour in a shiny-clean waiting room with yellow walls and a kitten sitting in the corner . |
| 2 | I began to realize how inadequate my picture of Laura was ; that I had made no room in my thoughts for an independent life of her own , let alone one as earthed and pragmatic as the potter 's craft . |
| 3 | Both were vehement in their call for an Inquiry into the whole affair . |
| 4 | Mathematics textbooks present the notion of profit in a way which can only confuse students in their quest for an understanding of the term . |
| 5 | Both of them take the present sexual division of labour as given and understand that this has important implications for women in their search for an income . |
| 6 | However in South Armagh the security forces are understood to be facing a blank wall in their search for an IRA sniper who has killed three members of the security forces and for the IRA 's mortar team . |
| 7 | It was difficult to tell as , in their search for an individual expression of fashion , they had adopted what virtually amounted to a black uniform . |
| 8 | Last year in their search for an artist the Kirk alighted on Amersham-born James D. McGairy , who graduated from Sunderland Polytechnic with an honours degree in communication studies just three years ago . |
| 9 | He had the Intelligence and the Security and the Branch all burrowing in their computers for an Englishman called Colt who wiped people for the cause of the Republic of Iraq , and he had sweet nothing to do , unless he went eye to eye with the mysteries of the thermostat . |
| 10 | She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in . |
| 11 | But later in the day , after the Christmas meal , alone in her room for an hour 's rest , she unpacked it with all its effects . |
| 12 | Tom Edwards , the Mayor of Whitby , Ontario , has put November 7 in his diary for an appearance at Whitby Now , an event which gives local performers a stage . |
| 13 | .18 Castleford … … .18 THE NOTE in the programme wishing Graham Steadman success in his quest for an international cap was not entirely altruistic . |
| 14 | He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship . |
| 15 | In reality it is all one process not susceptible to division , which is in relation to the grant or refusal of an advance because the borrower selected that form of report in his application for an advance and in consequence of the society 's decision to use its own employee it is contractually liable for any want of due skill or care . |
| 16 | the pursuer succeeded in his application for an interim payment against his employer who argued they should only be liable to pay 50% because of the alleged negligence of the master of a ship . |
| 17 | The failure of the pope to pronounce on this matter until 798 meant a dangerous delay for Coenwulf and was probably a factor in his desire for an archbishopric at London , but the papal judgement when it came gave him a free hand and made London as an archiepiscopal see dispensable . |
| 18 | Something fierce blazed in his eyes for an instant . |
| 19 | He stared at her , sudden heat in his eyes for an instant before the shuttering lashes came down to hide it . |
| 20 | ‘ Monday afternoon 's vigil marks the self-destruction of PDAG , as well as preparing for a new period in our campaign for an independent and democratic education system , ’ said the society 's education spokesman , Ffred Ffransis , last night . |