Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver launches forward for a narrow escape . |
| 2 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 4 | There 's a club meeting here for a social weekend — I think they like to keep their places warm here for when coarse fishing starts again . |
| 5 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 6 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 7 | Erm I I look forward to hearing Mr 's views on on this particular matter given that he was the or or the department was was responsible for for in a sense prolonging the discussion to consider the breakdown of locations and as to whether he feels that there is sufficient technical information available on all of the sectors should a recommendation come forward for a particular sector from from the panel . |
| 8 | Under the 1975 Constitution , legislative power was vested in the 40-member National Assembly indirectly elected for a five-year term , executive power was vested in a President elected indirectly for a five-year term , and the Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP ) was the sole legal political party . |
| 9 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 10 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 11 | All the general SVQ tutors , and the SVQ co-ordinator went away for a three-day residential to develop the programme . |
| 12 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 13 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 14 | One admires the results as one might standing back for a painted landscape , yet I miss the sensation of really ‘ being there ’ . |
| 15 | These have led colleges , departments and individual staff members to recognise the need to provide effectively for a multi-racial and multi- lingual student body . |
| 16 | But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery . |
| 17 | The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans . |
| 18 | The board of inquiry called yesterday for a full and open judicial inquiry into the alleged activities of the death squad , noting that the present McNally investigation was an inter-departmental inquiry behind closed doors . |
| 19 | And , he 's , she s keeps on at him all the time , he 's never taken a photograph of the place laid out for a big dinner . |
| 20 | His thoughts sway constantly between the desire to go on and the desire to settle down for a relaxed evening with a book in the secure knowledge that he wo n't have to go on . |
| 21 | The sing-song lumbered along for a little while but it appears that the ‘ Ball of Kirriemuir ’ has been removed from the Examination Syllabus . |
| 22 | The eruption of Krakatoa has some parallels in these respects , for after an impressive opening , the eruption dragged on for a full three months before reaching its climax on 26 and 27 August . |
| 23 | The Paris meeting brings together for a rare joint pronouncement International Automobile Federation ( FIA ) president Jean-Marie Balestre , Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone , Formula One Constructors ' Association ( FOCA ) president and FIA vice-president in charge of promotional affairs . |
| 24 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 25 | Furthermore , even if a woman paid in for a full pension she had to pass the ‘ half test ’ ; that is , she had to work for at least half of her married life before she could count in her contributions both before and after marriage ( Groves , 1983 , pp. 45–7 ) . |
| 26 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 27 | You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy . |
| 28 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 29 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 30 | If you had the additional capital to go all-out for a new start I 'd say it was almost a certainty . |