Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe . |
| 2 | Always the demand is for ‘ practical ’ skills , while academic analysis remains a despised pastime , so that even the Superintendents ' Association ( the equivalent of the Police Federation for the lower ranks ) has similarly denied any place for intellectualism for its members . |
| 3 | Politics has also meant little time for hobbies like reading , music , badminton and cricket . |
| 4 | Instead , the work should consider what has culturally negotiated this experience for the artist and for other women whose personal experiences so closely echo her own . |
| 5 | The public school plus Oxbridge system has never perceived any need for vocational education and consequently it has been denied to the student body at large . |
| 6 | Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters . |
| 7 | ‘ Before we go I 'd better check this guy for a piece — or a tape recorder . ‘ |
| 8 | You 'd better find some oil for your lamp … |
| 9 | Do the trends revealed above have any significance for the outputs and conduct of local government ? |
| 10 | Trading is still tough , but Watmoughs now detects some scope for selective price increases and the devalued pound is already helping win new contracts , especially against German printers . |
| 11 | Several scholars have attempted periodically to collect such information for their own research concerns , but currently there is no comprehensive , consistent and computerised data base available to the whole research community . |
| 12 | Having firmly rejected this device for the other adjective constructions discussed so far ( not excluding the postnominal attributive ) , we consider that it is only in Sections 4.5 onwards that we have encountered a construction where the adjective can reasonably be treated in this way . |
| 13 | Or : ‘ Your forefathers worked hard , fought hard , and died hard to make this Empire for you . |
| 14 | Heating will cause a polymer sample to expand thereby creating more room for movement of each kinetic unit and the application of a stress in a particular direction will encourage flow by segmental motion in the direction of the stress . |
| 15 | The two very different sets of recommendations discussed above offer some guidance for the development of a more appropriate and contemporary media theory . |
| 16 | In fact , the effect of many past lives upon the child 's mind may already be too great a burden for him or her to have ever possessed much capacity for direct mental perception . |
| 17 | In this way , many possible locations can be eliminated immediately leaving more time for the planning group to concentrate on the details which will determine exactly which site is the best one . |
| 18 | They obtained enriched cultures of purple non-sulphur bacteria from marine and freshwater muds ; and , from stoichiometric arguments involving the amounts of cell mass growth and iron oxidized , they demonstrate that the bacteria do indeed use this pathway for carbon assimilation . |
| 19 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
| 20 | But Aischines expressly excludes that explanation for Demosthenes . |
| 21 | They 've so inculcated this passion for absolute secrecy into the senior officers of all four services that no one is prepared to reveal anything without the permission of the commanding officer of the Air Force base or ship or whatever . |
| 22 | Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice . |
| 23 | Now and you 've just had another prescription for that have n't you ? |
| 24 | got back home and the post 's been in between time and we 've just got this letter for her to attend on February , I wonder if there 's , if you 've had a mix up ? |
| 25 | He had just provided some polish for a machine that was already a miracle of design . |
| 26 | He 's been so busy catching murderers we 've hardly seen each other for three weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ When I grow up I 'll make sure I 've always got enough money for a whole pound of sausages and eggs to go with them , ’ Sally thought , but she never said anything . |
| 28 | I like the way I dress , though , I 've always had this thing for a sports look , that 's what I 'm aiming for . |
| 29 | We 've still got that tape for a couple of a weeks . |
| 30 | If he had ever had any feeling for her it was now stone-dead . |