Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 2 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 3 | Groups most noted for fragrance are albas , bourbons , centifolias , damasks , gallicas , hybrid musks and the modern English roses produced by David Austin 's nursery at Wolverhampton . |
| 4 | Experts naturally look for ways to minimise their exposure to claims : the liability of adjudicators is excluded specifically by the wording of the New Engineering Contract ( 1991 ) . |
| 5 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 6 | In 1922 the manager of the Grand Theater in DeQueen , Arkansas , explained to the readers of the Exhibitors Herald that he was having difficulty in choosing between the easily satisfied ‘ masses ’ , who just wanted shorts , and the much more difficult to please ‘ classes ’ , who wanted programmes especially prepared for them . |
| 7 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 8 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 9 | The released prisoners all feared for their lives . |
| 10 | The ornaments recovered from Neolithic cemeteries in the Rhine and Danube basins show that the shells most favoured for personal adornment were those of the mussel Spondylus gaederopus from which were fashioned necklaces , pendants and bracelets . |
| 11 | From the seven candidates eventually interviewed for the vacant headmastership , Mr. Alfred Edward Daniels was appointed . |
| 12 | And in the bathroom , she had been allowed to use one of the tiny , individual soap shells especially provided for the guests , and to keep it afterwards . |
| 13 | Mr Smith said : ‘ However well intentioned the reform may have been and however well it may work in schools sufficiently funded for it to work , the fact is too many of its side-effects are visible , malign and damaging and John Patten must have at the very top of his agenda an urgent review . ’ |
| 14 | How cruel to be stealing presents obviously meant for children . ’ |
| 15 | In a broad reform , foreign investment restrictions were lifted in January 1990 , eliminating controls on profit remittances , profit reinvestment , and foreign investment in sectors hitherto reserved for nationals , and removing restraints on the transfer of technology . |
| 16 | The new method involves candidates literally wrestling for power in a knockout tournament . |
| 17 | It would appear that edited departmental lists only accounted for £800 or so of the total allocation . |
| 18 | Their inspectors merely called for visual inspections and dye penetrant checks , as opposed to the ultrasonic testing called for in the UK . |
| 19 | As evidence they would point to the government 's growing practice of giving funds already allocated for a specific purpose : for example , the £1 million contribution to the Royal Opera redevelopment decided by Lord Donaldson , Minister for the Arts 1976–79 , or the Enhancement Funding Scheme , introduced in 1991 to stimulate private sponsorship . |
| 20 | He therefore leaked his deepest , darkest secret , but selectively , to those half-way in the know already ; and he made it deliberately dramatic , so that there was still a good chance it would fall within the wide range of hyperbole or blarney that his listeners already allowed for . |
| 21 | Sessions generally last for about 40 minutes and are required , by necessity , on a regular basis . |
| 22 | It was not until early in 1106 that his and the king 's messengers finally left for Rome . |
| 23 | Partly as a result of this unexpected support , the band decided to release the Ukrainian Peel sessions on a 10-inch mini-LP , ‘ Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela ’ , no doubt most fans just asked for The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian album . |
| 24 | But here we were truly in a void ; our footsteps had a booming , dull thud to them , and standing still with breath held left our ears desperately searching for something , anything , to catch hold of . |
| 25 | The vessels best equipped for this were ‘ cogs ’ , ships of high sides well suited for commercial traffic from which , indeed , most of them were taken . |
| 26 | Given that these indicators already exist for Local Authorities , it is surely indefensible to fail to explore their potential for improving the equity of resource allocation , and perhaps surprising that they have not yet been incorporated in the formulae for assessing GRE . |
| 27 | She was sitting on the veranda , her ears still straining for a sound of the departing plane . |
| 28 | Battered by Apple , Compaq and Dell , NEC belatedly announced big price cuts in February , but its computers still sell for about ¥150,000 more than those of its foreign competitors . |
| 29 | They want to understand their children , but the kids purposely look for things their parents ca n't understand . |
| 30 | Continental-style pressurised hot water systems in place of the conventional header tank , underfloor heating instead of radiators , condensing boilers in place of standard designs quickly pay for themselves . |