Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 2 | So , in closing I would to take this opportunity to apologise for a late magazine last Autumn , it was the only hiccup in the new system , and assure members that , despite losing our magazine to outsiders for a little while , it is well worth it … happy reading . |
| 3 | This provision allows for a unilateral decision of suspension by a State that does not claim to be specially affected by the breach where it feels the consequences of the breach undermines the entire Convention . |
| 4 | The work to be considered in this chapter provides for a temporary completion of the argument concerning the nature of objectification to which the first part of this book has been devoted . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think it is fair to expect this lady to pay for a new lock . |
| 6 | As this transistor conducts for a fixed time , dictated by the winding time constant , it may be switched from a fixed-period monostable circuit triggered by tile phase excitation signal . |
| 7 | This situation called for a full-scale nervous breakdown . |
| 8 | This county pays for a full time union official this is extravagant , one full timer for five hundred members , that is way over the top let me tell you . |
| 9 | This position calls for a thorough knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and the role and nature of clinical development . |
| 10 | This problem calls for a major change in the content of our primary education and for the raising of the school entry age so that the child is older when he leaves , and also able to learn more quickly while he is in school . ’ |
| 11 | This scheme provides for a simple and inexpensive method of arbitration on documents alone with restricted liability on the customer in respect of costs . |
| 12 | This scheme provides for a simple and inexpensive method of Arbitration on documents alone under which the customer 's liability in respect of costs is limited . |
| 13 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 14 | Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous . |