Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 2 | Instead , by sticking inflexibly for instant PR , claiming all the credit for constitutional reform , and continuing to rubbish Labour , Paddy Ashdown did his own party , and the cause of constitutional reform , a disservice . |
| 3 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 4 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 5 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 6 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 7 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 8 | this season we 'll be cheering louder than ever for our three teams … in the new first division we 've got Oxford United … they 've new owners and new heart after escaping relegation … we 've first division football at the County ground as well … where style and skill have always been swindon town 's hallmarks … this time around they 're hoping for strength too … in division three Hereford United have been rebuilding … they 're going continental with a player-coach instead of a manager … so for the best season ticket sit down for Central South … . |
| 9 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel that the trading standards officers have exceeded their authority by requiring Mr Wilson to conform with standards laid down for new stations and not established premises . ’ |
| 11 | The government linked the cuts with the need to contain public spending in order to meet the economic convergence criteria laid down for European Community economic and monetary union [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 12 | A startling 24 failed to meet standards laid down for public water supplies . |
| 13 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 14 | Tranquillizers should be prescribed only for short periods to help patients through crises where their levels of anxiety are such that their coping ability is grossly impaired . |
| 15 | But I am trying to work out when I can walk Paul Buttle 's circuit of the Lakes , devised especially for Outdoor Action . |
| 16 | Engineers are devising a modular robot ( see picture ) comprising standard sections that can be joined together for specific applications . |
| 17 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 18 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 19 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 20 | The Peta was intended only for local defence but there was also the Hei-Ho whose strength in Java was close on 25000 . |
| 21 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
| 22 | The unexplained gap between the pay of 26-year-old men and women was 51 per cent allowing only for educational background and employment experience , or 38 per cent allowing also for information on job characteristics . |
| 23 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 24 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 25 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 26 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 27 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 28 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 29 | A spokesperson for the band confirmed a national tour is currently being pieced together for late autumn . |
| 30 | The Primary Enterprise Pack — This support pack has been developed especially for primary school teachers by the Polytechnic of North London . |