Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 2 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |
| 3 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 4 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 5 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 6 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 7 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 8 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 9 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 10 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 11 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 12 | To achieve this , sufficient domestic tax relief would be given to compensate for higher import prices resulting from tariffs up to current levels of imports . |
| 13 | The negotiators agreed to meet for further discussions but did not set a date . |
| 14 | The Laboratory is catering to demand for local chips from Taiwanese Sparcsystem builders such as Tatung Electronics Co , Datatech Inc , Twinhead Inc , Sampo Inc and Chicony Inc . |
| 15 | Depending on the nature of the defect , electrons may remain trapped for long periods of time ; such a trap would be referred to as ‘ deep ’ . |
| 16 | His wife Doreen said : ‘ I do n't want to comment for obvious reasons but I 'm happy with what my husband says . ’ |
| 17 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , he 's organised it Chris has had to go to work for two days this week . |
| 19 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 20 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 21 | An example of a limitation clause is where a supplier of computer software limits his liability for faulty software to the licence fee he has received for that software . |
| 22 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |
| 23 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , provided that it is possible to make informed assumptions about the likely shapes and sizes of buildings at particular periods , a computer can be programmed to search for particular configurations of post-holes that might result from such a structure and ‘ peel them off ’ , to reveal a simplified picture of earlier building phases . |
| 25 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 26 | All have doctorates in musicology from either Cambridge or Oxford ; two are currently associated with King 's College , Cambridge ( where the wellsprings of the English a cappella renaissance are to be found ) , and one has taught for several Oxford colleges that are also medieval choral foundations . |
| 27 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 28 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 29 | Trials are expected to continue for three months . |
| 30 | Send to SCIAF for more information . |