Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vibrational spectroscopy has been used successfully for quantitative analysis , but considerable care is needed to ensure accurate results . |
| 2 | During the 1950s , however , employers began to press successfully for coordinated , central wage bargaining , which has continued subsequently . |
| 3 | A principal aim is , of course , to present the pupils successfully for external exams . |
| 4 | Only where under-provision has resulted in really serious deficiencies is it likely that a librarian can argue successfully for extra funding to put the balance right . |
| 5 | The opportunities for using knowledge to shop around successfully for good-value credit involve both choosing between different types of credit ( bank loan versus H P , say ) and choosing between different terms or arrangements even within the same credit type . |
| 6 | If the Audit Commission is to continue to do the work that it does so successfully for local government , and to achieve better value for money , it must be independent and impartial , and its reports and work must be respected . |
| 7 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
| 8 | D. The managers know that labour is available locally for new industries . |
| 9 | Most significantly , Mirror papers introduced modern printing techniques , processed photos locally for immediate use and speeded up the presses . |
| 10 | During the nineteenth century , the cattle of Friesland in particular were being selected locally for black-and-white pied coats at a time when the cattle of other provinces were of various colours and types . |
| 11 | Despite such criticisms , Scottish mental health services have often been in the vanguard of community care developments , with services evolving locally for pragmatic reasons . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | At least it provided somewhere for Lucien to anchor his attention . |
| 14 | From March 1645 , when he became deputy licenser to Rushworth , until March 1647 when both men were dismissed , presumably for political reasons , Mabbott 's name appears regularly in the Stationers ' Company register . |
| 15 | Advice was given by Mr Fallon on how best to proceed to cater for increased demand for places at both St Bede 's and St Augustine 's schools , but it was not followed presumably for political or administration reasons . |
| 16 | In the Seine basin , landlords created hospitia , free tenures , presumably for similar reasons . |
| 17 | 1,453 were arrested and processed in mobile booking offices , mostly for petty offences like delinquent traffic tickets or curfew violations . |
| 18 | Here are some ways of using cardboard cones , mostly for green-fingered knitters . |
| 19 | The increased sensitivity of cattle stealing to hardship may be largely accounted for by the fact that at this time more cattle stealing was carried out casually , mostly for immediate consumption as beef . |
| 20 | Thus we have low status , low paid women care assistants , given little overt recognition for the demanding and difficult task they do , caring mostly for elderly women . |
| 21 | Segregative in both appearance and admission policies , they catered mostly for elderly disabled people . |
| 22 | Consultations , mostly for minor ailments , are characteristically brief . |
| 23 | A little fishing is carried on , mostly for local consumption and although most supplies have to be imported , milk and eggs are readily available . |
| 24 | As a rule , he uses a pair of Marshall tops/cabs with either a Chandler Tube Driver or an Ibanez Tube Screamer , and a Cry Baby wah-wah used mostly for tonal coloration . |
| 25 | The issue flared up when the party was doing badly for other reasons , and subsided when it was not . |
| 26 | But they will expect rewards for their loyalty later , which augurs badly for forthcoming debates on both the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) , which many liberals oppose , and on welfare reform . |
| 27 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 28 | Equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) can be solved analytically for spherical impactors in an isothermal atmosphere if and C H are held constant . |
| 29 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 30 | More importantly for long-run , strategic competitiveness , US firms have emphasised technologies best suited to their home markets , not necessarily the global ones . |