Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason .
32 Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes .
33 On current spending education was essentially stabilised in real volume terms for over a decade , and the rates of growth in health and personal social services slowed down or ceased for some periods .
34 First , it was not sensible to launch an application for inspection of the liquidator 's report or to seek for that purpose an adjournment of the examination being conducted under section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 .
35 It comes from critics who imagine themselves penning formidable papers which , like those of Gregor Mendel , are hidden away or ignored for many years — and do not fare too well , therefore , in ISI 's listings .
36 Marked bays or shelving for each product type stocked should be allocated and reserved specifically for those products .
37 If this book-keeping adds up — all orbits which are created must either be destroyed or persist for all parameter values — all is well and good .
38 Indeed , from where is there a proven pressure or need for another set of examinations ? ’ .
39 ‘ There is one Mr. Milne , officer at Oldcambus , a very old man quite worn out & unfitt for that station & is expected that he ca n't live much longer ’ , an eager applicant for a place advised Hugh Scott , the member of parliament of Berwickshire .
40 She neither gave him an answer nor waited for more reaction , but turned swiftly up the stairs and through the kitchen and along the corridor where , without knocking , she burst into Jessie 's room .
41 It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused .
42 Raising the trapdoor a little more so he could see out , he cautiously pushed out the barrel of the shotgun and checked for any sign of enemy personnel , as best as he could in his limited field of vision .
43 For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants .
44 So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water .
45 On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system .
46 The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months .
47 The super-sharp , non-clogging blades of this Draper Rasp Set are designed for fast cutting and shaping for all sorts of materials .
48 Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 .
49 It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death .
50 All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes .
51 Its principal strengths lie in the ability to ( a ) make selective use of available visual cues ( for fluent readers much of the visual stimulus remains unattended [ Just & Carpenter , 1987 ] ) and ( b ) utilise an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process and compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus .
52 ‘ But the one true faith , ’ went on Constance balefully , ‘ have gone and fallen for that codswallop .
53 But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year .
54 First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector .
55 Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days .
56 Using the Black-Scholes model , evaluate the following calls and puts and compare your answers with the market values given below and account for any discrepancies : .
57 He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton .
58 In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child .
59 Fabia awoke on Friday with a smile on her face , and lay for some while with thoughts of Ven in her head .
60 I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head .
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