Example sentences of "[noun] for [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 3 | Although he engaged in some pastoral work in the years after his ordination , preaching and hearing confessions , his time was spent almost entirely in the papal civil service and , until the appointment to Germany for just over a decade , almost entirely in Rome . |
| 4 | They can obtain Orders from the Secretary of State ( DoE or Welsh Office ) to prevent any agricultural , or forestry , land use change for up to a year . |
| 5 | It is claimed that after decay of the soft tissues , small mammal bone does not survive exposure for long on the ground , becoming soft and disintegrating within one year ( Voorhies , 1969 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 7 | Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown . |
| 8 | Detectives also found bales of dried herbal cannabis from a previous crop and believe the isolated spot had been used to produce the drug for up to a decade . |
| 9 | They require a lot of maintenance and some may be out of action for up to a day a week on a regular basis . |
| 10 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 11 | For although the two stood with their heads for once on a level pegging , the size of their shadows differed to no small degree . |
| 12 | The parents then feed the chick for up to a year . |
| 13 | If you are moving for job reasons , the local authority or new town development corporation , even if they can not offer permanent rented accommodation , might be able to arrange short-term letting for up to a year under Schedule 3 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 14 | You can keep the hired car for up to a fortnight . |
| 15 | ‘ Luck was on your side for once in the form of this remarkable pugilist , this amazing pair of fists ! ’ |
| 16 | there are 12 designs for all around the home , and they offer an inexpensive way to make any room 's decorations unique . |
| 17 | The punishments included forfeiture of remission , single cell confinements , restrictions upon access to the canteen and , more controversially , the stopping of letters and visits for up to a month . |
| 18 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 19 | I think there 's a need or the County Council considered there 's a need for certainly in the Greater York context , for further guidance to be given to fairly erm assess where the new settlement location er should be . |
| 20 | From here you walk north-east following forest paths and tracks for just under a mile . |
| 21 | To give themselves ready cash , some American airlines want to keep a 10% ticket tax for up to a year before handing it over to the government . |
| 22 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Ayrshire we are extremely proud of the new hospital which was built from start to finish within five years , a record for anywhere in the country ? |
| 23 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 24 | The company therefore said that salesmen must agree to a new restrictive covenant which barred them from soliciting customers for up to a year after leaving . |
| 25 | In the United Kingdom the attitude to testing has been more ambivalent , although examinations and tests have played an important part in British education for well over a century . |
| 26 | Jennings , however , criticized Dicey for never considering the powers of public authorities . |
| 27 | Chill for up to an hour . |
| 28 | THE prospect of a rise in interest rates and mortgage costs if Labour wins on Thursday is prompting some borrowers to lock into fixed rate loans for up to a decade . |
| 29 | The extent of the practice is , however , obscured by the widespread custom that permitted tenants to make demises for up to a year — in some places as much as three — without licence from the lord of the manor . |
| 30 | Undertakers would give the poor no credit and , whilst efforts were being made to raise cash , corpses remained on their deathbeds for up to a fortnight . |