Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I returned to the States in considerable agitation : if national white media continued their de facto denial of his campaign , Jackson might really lose the game on grounds of fair-play relentlessly circumvented for the purpose of defeating him . |
| 2 | Where a person enters under a contractual right , the common duty of care under the Act will be implied into the contract , unless the contract expressly provides for a higher standard of care . |
| 3 | When is a building sufficiently furnished for full habitation ? |
| 4 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 5 | The school in which they work is a building especially designed for teaching ’ . |
| 6 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 7 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 8 | And you have the framework of your story ready made for you , a great help to the beginner . |
| 9 | " Bit less to say for himself than usual , but that 's no bad thing . " |
| 10 | You know , as she had no family or friends , he was kind enough to pay for her to go to school , and found her a job here with your uncle . |
| 11 | In addition , when applied two or three days prior to going on holiday , protective filters leave the skin better prepared for first exposure to the sun while preserving the natural qualities of the skin . |
| 12 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 13 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 14 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 15 | The whole trial only continued for 12 days . |
| 16 | The case only confined for the policemen the inequities of the legal system : justice depends on who the prisoner gets . |
| 17 | Whether we have in mind the student teacher , or the art student in the studio , or the student nurse , practical experience necessarily calls for a degree of personal involvement by the student and to that extent it is desirable . |
| 18 | The remains of the iron overshot water wheel eventually went for scrap in the late 1960s . |
| 19 | Storytime in ‘ Magician 's Road ’ — As well as being able to enjoy the interactive children 's exhibition called ‘ Magician 's Road ’ , the Museum 's younger visitors will be able to listen to a storytime especially written for them . |
| 20 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 21 | The aircraft industry alone accounted for one-third of expenditure . |
| 22 | The bag contained wool , needles and a pattern for a sweater obviously intended for Penry , by the measurements ringed in red . |
| 23 | The army command long pressed for a local ‘ home guard ’ such as had been the rule in Malaya , Kenya and other terrorist situations . |
| 24 | Richard now married Berengaria in a wedding long remembered for its splendour . |
| 25 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 26 | The validity of a local search result only lasts for two months , and if there is delay in finding a buyer , the search may be extended under the Local Search Validation Insurance Scheme . |
| 27 | One sees the pleasure Bill Deedes will have got , pleasure enough to last for months . |
| 28 | The acid test of this type of guitar is to put it through a mixing desk with a totally flat EQ and let the instrument literally speak for itself . |
| 29 | There were also four lumps of silver apparently intended for circulation . |
| 30 | Krupp expected and received more consideration than Theodor Boeninger of Duisburg , whom the regional administration merely recommended for the title of Commercial Counsellor ( Kommerzienrat ) because he was wealthy , a capable industrialist , active in public and church life and had supported the government in elections and on both municipal and district councils . |