Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , the notes were still being painstakingly dipped and dried when Kilburn was killed , apparently in revenge for America 's raid on Libya in April 1986 . |
| 2 | Among the many reasons for this are , first , a belief that the spread of the secondary comprehensive school has led to a fall in standards or has failed to lead to the heralded improvement in quality ; and secondly , a raising of expectations , among politicians , parents , employers and young people , about what young people , in the light of growing youth unemployment , should be expected to achieve by the end of the period of compulsory education , especially in preparation for life , work and further/higher education . |
| 3 | With Linford Christie , John Regis and Marcus Adam all in line for places in Barcelona , his realistic target for the summer is the European Cup for Under 23s at Gateshead on July 18 and 19 in the relay at least , if not in the 200 metres . |
| 4 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 5 | So in mine for example , C er , is er , public courses , D is marketing , E are in-house courses , and F are computers . |
| 6 | They exist only in stories for children . ’ |
| 7 | They were to be allowed to use some of the gentry 's farmland , but not necessarily in perpetuity and only in return for labour services or cash . |
| 8 | Television arrived here only in time for Christmas 1986 . |
| 9 | Only in desire for change is there a significant difference ; while the women score high , the men get almost full marks . |
| 10 | That it 's unnatural for people to be tied up together in families for years and years . |
| 11 | As unmarried young women , Virginia and Vanessa Stephen rented a house together in Sussex for weekends and holidays . |
| 12 | THE POPE and the European bishops have invited Christians , Jews and Muslims to pray and fast together in Assisi for peace in the Balkans . |
| 13 | This peculiar outburst was entirely in character for de Gaulle , who could be serenely optimistic in the heat of a crisis only to become sceptical and disillusioned , even depressed , when the crisis was over . |
| 14 | Being tall , straight and pliant it was much in demand for ship masts , ‘ therefore the legislature thought proper to pass a law for the preservation and increase of these trees in America ’ . |
| 15 | Much in demand for stage and film productions , he became associated with the early musicals of Lloyd Webber and his then partner Tim Rice in the 1970s . |
| 16 | He was much in demand for lecture tours in Europe , America , and Africa . |
| 17 | If she were still in Britain , it would be too late for her to say much in time for morning editions . |
| 18 | ASHINWARI or Afridi tribesman in Afghanistan grows the poppies and sends them by donkey or truck to his cousin a few miles away in Pakistan for processing . |
| 19 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 20 | Luckily he was able to drive out and the Middleton in Teesdale driver was soon in contention for 1300cc honours . |
| 21 | They reveal that the system has problems detecting , identifying , or jamming some enemy radars already in existence for decades . |
| 22 | Supply would be regulated by a system of government licences analogous to those already in force for tobacco and alcohol ( and which would serve , among other things , to keep drugs out of the hands of children ) , backed by strict policing and heavy penalties . |
| 23 | The administrative burden is increased but the processes are the same as those already in place for fundholding . |
| 24 | To climb up and remove the picture the thieves used scaffolding already in place for restoration work . |
| 25 | Plans are already in motion for charity events . |
| 26 | I was just in time for Sunday night , bath , hair wash and all the usual things |
| 27 | We should be at the château just in time for breakfast . ’ |
| 28 | They arrived in Carlingford to a fine drizzle , and just in time for Ellie to take part in the leprechaun hunt . |
| 29 | And the new arrivals , just in time for Easter . |
| 30 | ‘ Well now , and just in time for tea , ’ he beamed as a second and third bomb fell sickeningly nearer . |