Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 2 | We are going to suffer as an authority for many years to come , from that low budget . |
| 3 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 4 | The Levellers favoured annual , or at least biennial , elections , and suggested that no one should be allowed to stand as a candidate for two successive parliaments . |
| 5 | She would have to work for a month for that . |
| 6 | • If you are keen to work as a temp for your old company , broach the subject before you take maternity leave . |
| 7 | An underground , ‘ black ’ economy was allowed to flourish as a substitute for politically indigestible reforms , with the result that corruption became a way of life . |
| 8 | It may be that this relexicalized version has not been actually attested and , may never occur in the future but it acquires normality because it is relatively easy to conceive of a context for it . |
| 9 | Even today there will be readers who will be glad to know of a formula for dealing with a salmon or a piece of one received as a present , too big to be consumed immediately and likely to prove wearisome if eaten cold day after day . |
| 10 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 11 | In 1985–86 , for example , Roehampton Institute engaged a headteacher to work with a college for six hours a week and ten other teachers for three hours a week . |
| 12 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 13 | She 's going to have to work in a museum for the rest of her life ! |
| 14 | After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 15 | Place in the cooled liquid and allow to stand in a refrigerator for at least 12 hours . |
| 16 | TWELVE YEARS OF WEARING GREEN DUNGAREES ARE ABOUT TO COME TO AN END FOR HOMEBASE STAFF WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW UNIFORM . |
| 17 | The CIT has also responded to the Department of Environment 's invitation to comment on a draft for a revised planning policy guidance note on town centres and retail development . |
| 18 | Colchester Borough Council was asked by the county council , which makes planning decisions on landfill sites , to comment on an application for changes at Bellhouse Pit , Colchester . |
| 19 | Both the statement and financial figures are expected to relate to a plan for development over a period of 3–4 years . |
| 20 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 21 | Luciano Pavarotti took a night off from his sell-out performances of Tosca at Covent Garden last month to appear at a Masterclass for four up and coming young singers . |
| 22 | Lemnos was not a very clever place to choose as a base for British operations . |
| 23 | This situation led Genaro Bautista and others to create the magazine Etnias in 1989 to serve as a platform for the discussion of indigenous issues . |
| 24 | They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future . |
| 25 | Cumberland Lodge was and is a remarkable foundation : a grace and favour house belonging to the sovereign which , in the years after the War , had been set aside to serve as a meeting-place for university teachers and students . |
| 26 | The project will continue to serve as a centre for other scholars working in this field . |
| 27 | ( On the formation of the NAR administration in December 1986 Gordon had agreed to serve as a minister for a period of three years . ) |
| 28 | However , in order to make meaningful comparisons more is needed than merely comparative information , since within any field of study theory is necessary both to provide a framework for the systematic analysis and accumulation of the existing stock of knowledge and to serve as a guide for the selection of research problems . |
| 29 | Sir John , I will need some sort of box to serve as a coffin for poor Cosmas . |
| 30 | Even advocates of the doctrine acknowledge that it must be exercised within defined limits , and not be allowed to serve as a facade for the furtherance of the intervening State 's own ends . |