Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a person enters under a contractual right , the common duty of care under the Act will be implied into the contract , unless the contract expressly provides for a higher standard of care . |
| 2 | Whether we have in mind the student teacher , or the art student in the studio , or the student nurse , practical experience necessarily calls for a degree of personal involvement by the student and to that extent it is desirable . |
| 3 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 4 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 5 | The army command long pressed for a local ‘ home guard ’ such as had been the rule in Malaya , Kenya and other terrorist situations . |
| 6 | More significant are the numbers of votes actually cast , since these enter into the calculation of the quota normally required for a candidate 's election . |
| 7 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
| 8 | In trusts , however , it has been widely maintained that intention always counted for a lot more than words . |
| 9 | The 1949 Constitution established Costa Rica as a democratic state with an executive President directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 10 | Interestingly , this setting also works for a complete mix , affecting mainly the percussive sounds but leaving the overall feel pretty much unchanged . |
| 11 | The President also called for a re-examination of existing plans to phase out CFC substitutes , notably hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) by 2030 . |
| 12 | The President also serves for a four-year term ; if no presidential candidate gains a majority of the vote under direct elections , then the President is elected by the Congress . |
| 13 | This programme would be in addition to government funding already budgeted for a high-speed rail link to the French side of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 14 | I think it would be better , in my own experience , move over to that er the left a little bit just to go for a slightly more interesting composition . |
| 15 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 16 | Pearl has the unenviable reputation of being one of the more sleepy members within a sector not noted for a dynamic approach . |
| 17 | Despite the decline in the growth rate of public service employment since the late 1970s , the public service sector still accounts for a significant proportion of total employment in the service industries . |
| 18 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 19 | The law also provided for a 24 nautical mile " adjacent area " in which the Taiwan government could take precautions against any intrusion . |
| 20 | The Financial Services Act also requires for a body such N C V O that their Memorandum of Association should actually include an explicit power to use investment advisors . |
| 21 | Rolle also refers to three degrees of love in two earlier treatises known as Ego Dormio and The Commandment both written for a nun in the early stages of religious life ( possibly Margaret Kirkeby ) . |
| 22 | However , the Guild also asked for a comprehensive home-help service so that women would not worry about the welfare of younger children and husbands , but this was not forthcoming . |
| 23 | The Central Council also called for a meeting of the so-called " frontline states " ( Egypt , Syria , Lebanon , Jordan and the PLO ) to co-ordinate a unified negotiating position . |
| 24 | However the plan also allows for a 36 per cent rise in carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industry and power plants . |
| 25 | The experimenter then waits for a certain amount of time and repeats the experiment to see how well the rat has remembered what it has to do . |
| 26 | Two winters ago , as Taylor tried desperately to revive his career , he spent a winter in the Aussie outback playing for a little-known team called North Kalgoorlie . |
| 27 | For a long moment silence hung in the air between them , Candy obviously searching for a solution to a problem she had never encountered before . |
| 28 | This would almost make it only eligible for a speculative developer who reckoned he might be able to pull the right political strings to get the site suitably rezoned for a later sell-on . |
| 29 | A FISHERMAN yesterday called for a change in the law to allow anglers to dig for bait on the seashore . |
| 30 | Buy-out/buy-in business now accounts for a quarter of investments made by venture capital funds , whereas the number of startups account for only approximately 13 per cent ( Table 7.11 ) . |