Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister , Aníbal Cavaço Silva , had been under pressure to reorganize the government for some time , and the Cabinet sworn in on Jan. 5 contained five new ministers . |
| 2 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 3 | One political group in particular , the Whigs , who had been the " outs " in politics for the 25 years prior to 1830 , began to see the need for some response to this pressure . |
| 4 | Norfolk-born Mavis McKechnie , 71 , of Mill House , Wissington , near Nayland , has wanted to try the walk for some time and decided to give it a serious purpose . |
| 5 | And one thing you might come up with — this is just my idea , Vic is n't so sure about it — is that they ( i.e. us ) have come back to re-enact the ceremony for some reason that 's tremendously important to their tribes . |
| 6 | I wanted to sell the helmet for some money towards a bike , I told him . |
| 7 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 8 | He intends to get other unions to lobby the government for some sort of taxation to be levied on the hotel industry , which is all we need . ’ |
| 9 | To understand the need for some quantity rule , consider figure 5.1 again . |
| 10 | It was unanimously resolved to delay the case for some time . " |
| 11 | ‘ I propose therefore that Customs should be given some discretion to mitigate the penalties for some misdeclarations , to enable them to take account of the individual circumstances of the trader . ’ |
| 12 | okay just the coffee that 's lovely she 's just gone to get a book for some homework . |
| 13 | She 's just popped up to get a book for some homework . |
| 14 | This did not take place , however , because schools would be required to go through the process at different times and such training would probably be of limited value for schools which were not to undertake an appraisal for some time . |
| 15 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 16 | According to some reports , the Government plans to limit the reprieve for some pits to just two years . |
| 17 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |