Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 2 | But le Havre and Cherbourg opted for a simple and austere classicism , with the new vogue for geometrical emphasis to the fore . |
| 3 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas arrived for an official visit on Nov. 22 . |
| 4 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 5 | This followed United States calls for a multilateral effort to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons development programme [ see also this page ] . |
| 6 | But in the ‘ new ’ version , Blade Runner The Director 's Cut , due out at the end of the month , Scott opts for a different and even darker conclusion . |
| 7 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 8 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 9 | Uwe Otten , H.P. Lorenz and F. Busiger of the University of Basel and Hoffmann-La Roche looked for a possible connection with the protein nerve growth factor ( NGF ) . |
| 10 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 11 | Molly waited for an embarrassing reminiscence and got it . |
| 12 | Crevecoeur had for a brief , intoxicating time enjoyed intimate relations with Ms Micklemas , an affair whose firepower had been skyfilling and radiant and whose energy devoured itself within two weeks . |
| 13 | You do n't need guests , you do n't need freezing weather or any other excuse to put pudding on the menu — although it is true that a good pudding shared with like-minded Billy Bunters makes for a convivial party , and if the day dawns cold and frosty it may give an agreeable edge to appetites . |
| 14 | Sahnoun appealed for a large increase in the amount of aid promised . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 16 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 17 | At the end of the month , Raybestos and the IDA applied for a temporary injunction to prevent Michael Lenihan of Ringaskiddy , and anyone acting on his behalf , from picketing the dump site . |
| 18 | On 10th August , the day the Bill was ordered to be withdrawn , Hope asked for a Royal Commission to consider the whole affair . |
| 19 | The ANC stands for a new South Africa , a South Africa in which racism shall be a thing of the past , where human dignity and equality shall prevail in the life of the country and its people , where the goals enshrined in the Freedom Charter shall be transformed into a living reality . |
| 20 | One dealer left Harvard to work for a Continental outfit called European Equity Research . |
| 21 | If Shearson hope for a passive investor , it is not in Perelman 's make up , ’ says Perrin Long , a securities analyst at Lipper Analytical . |
| 22 | Christopher arrived for a Dry Martini with his officers , some in battle-dress , some in denim fatigues like their men . |
| 23 | The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter . |
| 24 | Rather than addressing individual anomalies by directives , ICAS called for a conceptual framework and a single model tax treaty , to be signed by all EC members , which would in itself result in harmonised treatment of cross-border transactions . |
| 25 | You see the difference there was Thomson pulled for a short ball there and he was ignored . |
| 26 | Last night , Cockerill called for a long suspension should Wright be found guilty . |
| 27 | On December 12th Mr Vicari called for an extraordinary general meeting to clear up the uncertainty over the firm 's future . |
| 28 | Later on in the meeting , Council member David Lindsay called for a full report on Training Outside Public Practice , following his discovery that 62 of the 77 students currently training under TOPP are employed by the National Audit Office . |
| 29 | The PPP called for an independent inquiry to clear the damage to its reputation caused by assertions that the hijackers were members of Al Zulfiqar , an armed resistance group with PPP connections which had operated in the 1980s and was involved in a hijacking in 1981 [ see pp. 31071-72 ] . |
| 30 | Professor Heiz called for a six-month period of study to be devoted to the Corbie site before work proceeds on the school . |