Example sentences of "[adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 2 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 3 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 4 | The managing director of Oxford United said the club will fight on for a new stadium , despite planning problems . |
| 5 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 6 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 7 | Behind the scenes , apparently unknown to the minister and BT , there is a hunt on for a suitable candidate , probably Prince Philip or Prince Charles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 10 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 11 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 12 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 13 | In June 1968 , at their first meeting , Ceauşescu shrewdly let a twenty minute courtesy call run on for a flattering two and a quarter hours . |
| 14 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 15 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 16 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 17 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
| 18 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 19 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 20 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 21 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 22 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 23 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 24 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 25 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 26 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 27 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 28 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 29 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |