Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those places where there is a delay in substantiation , faith is prepared to wait for a long time at the bar of history . |
| 2 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 3 | However , he went on to say that the acceptance of the existence of Communist China did not mean that Taiwan had abandoned its " one-China policy " and that the country was prepared to wait for a positive response to its proposals for unification on the basis of liberal democratic policies . |
| 4 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 5 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 6 | The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate . |
| 7 | The council decided not to appeal during a special meeting of its policy and resources committee . |
| 8 | It was from this base that Marian was invited in 1976 to apply to sit as an Assistant Recorder on the North-Eastern Circuit . |
| 9 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 10 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 11 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 12 | With VAT on fuel bills scheduled for 1994 and 1995 , the strategy is beginning to shape up as one aimed at allowing the Conservatives to go for a tax-cutting Budget in 1996 or 1997 in an attempt to win back ground in the run-up to the election . |
| 13 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 14 | The princess , patron of the Northern Ballet , told stars of the company 's production they had been brave to go for a modern version of the Tchaikovsky classic . |
| 15 | Erm again I , I ca n't help but s er er getting slightly digressed but it is rather interesting that John Major this year decided to go for a general election before the local elections . |
| 16 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 17 | An electrical equipment manufacturer , for example , might decide to go for a fully-fitted kitchen including all their own appliances as the top prize , with a small number of runners-up receiving a toaster or sandwich maker . |
| 18 | ‘ You might be able to go for a short walk in a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |
| 19 | Financial software house Quality Software Products Holdings Plc has taken the plunge and decided to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange ‘ to exploit the business opportunities ’ presented by its newly-launched Universal OLAS product ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 20 | Virtual reality systems supplier Division Ltd intends to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange , with the share placing expected to take place next week courtesy of Manchester-based broker , Henry Cooke Lumsden . |
| 21 | Ponty skipper Nigel Bezani was first to go for a high tackle in which he elbowed centre John Apsee , but the Bridgend man admitted : ‘ I was surprised he was sent off . ’ |
| 22 | The team began experimenting there in December ‘ 88 and by the end of January it was felt right to go for a public launch on Palm Sunday ‘ 89 with attendant door to door visiting with invitations , and publicity to the press and media . |
| 23 | Washington had first seen the attractions of open land when working as a surveyor along a line running north-west to the Ohio valley and Lake Erie , and he could reckon that his survey was not going to remain as a simple tribute to the government 's desire for information . |
| 24 | Time-lapse cinemicroscopy also enables each death to be confirmed as apoptotic : apoptosis is characterized by its extreme rapidity , taking about 30–60min to proceed through a diagnostic sequence of cytoplasmic blebbing , vesicularization and nuclear condensation . |
| 25 | In order to search for a possible role for NCp7 during reverse transcription , we examined the ability of NCp7 to facilitate the annealing of complementary DNA and RNA strands . |
| 26 | The growing barbarization of the war , especially following the invasion of the Soviet Union , led to an increasing dehumanization of the abstract image of the ‘ Jew ’ and a corresponding ‘ internalization ’ of the justification of the need to search for a radical solution to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 27 | This study in a large population of patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome aimed to search for a differential pattern of gastric endocrine cells between patients with sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome and those with the syndrome and MEN 1 , and to establish whether there is a real predominance of ECL cell tumours in the second group . |
| 28 | It is true that to search for a legal framework in which the ill-articulated wishes of a testator can be given effect is to regard the testator 's intention . |
| 29 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 30 | It is interesting here to note that it is paralleled by one from Islam of how Allah sent the angel Gabriel to search for a pious man in a certain place . |