Example sentences of "for [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this cautious , adroit , enigmatic leader seemed for long to be very much what the nation and the times required . |
| 2 | A preoccupation , though a slowly waning one , with precedence and ceremonial still bulked very large : the safeguarding by the ambassador of the honour and standing of the monarch he represented continued for long to be widely seen as the most fundamental of all his duties . |
| 3 | Another sideline of this erm little secondary education section that erm Arthur was in charge of was the library and erm the Library Sub Committee he erm had to look out for much to the annoyance of erm Bill who was the librarian at the time |
| 4 | This entailed that the three subjects were for ever to be treated as three separate subjects . |
| 5 | ‘ Draw them under shadow ’ may mean no more than ‘ pull them out of the hall and into the dark ’ , but it implies also ‘ going we know not where ’ , dying and being handed over for ever to the powers of evil . |
| 6 | When she still laments her fate he can only add ‘ We are not bound for ever to the circles of the world , and beyond them is more than memory . |
| 7 | Is the Church to continue for ever to be under-remunerated because just sufficient hear the call ? |
| 8 | Edward III agreed that the realm of Scotland ‘ shall remain for ever to the eminent prince Lord Robert , by the grace of God the illustrious king of Scots ’ , and he renounced any right he might have in the realm of Scotland . |
| 9 | In their places were great standing stones , tall and thin and pointing for ever to the sky . |
| 10 | Forecasts for 6am to midnight on Monday June 14 General situation : Rain at first , some bright spells . |
| 11 | If imports account for close to 50% of UK sales in those sectors , a 10% devaluation would directly raise the RPI by around 2% over a period of , say , one to two years . |
| 12 | Despite storming figures that saw the company report its first $5,000m quarter , and just miss its first $10,000m half , putting it on track for close to $20,000m this year ( see Company Results ) , chief executive Lewis Platt is not cheering his head off . |
| 13 | He had also been a division president and group vice-president of Aydin Corporation , a computer systems and controls organization and a founder and executive vice-president of Delta Data Systems for close to ten years . |
| 14 | Despite storming figures that saw the company report its first $5,000m quarter , and just miss its first $10,000m half , putting it on track for close to $20,000m this year , chief executive Lewis Platt is not cheering his head off . |
| 15 | This blueprint challenged the assumptions of Keynesian theory that had provided the basis of economic policy in the United States for close to half a century . |
| 16 | She 'd been in the library for close to four hours now . |
| 17 | Oil exports accounted for close to 80 per cent of foreign earnings . |
| 18 | A LUNCH for close to 90 people , mostly Estate Agents , was held on by on the third floor of ‘ One ’ Great Tower Street ( the old headquarters of ) to mark the completion of the re-development started in January 1989 . |
| 19 | Excuse my ignorance , but living in the ‘ plains ’ of the US makes it very hard to keep up with English soccer ( er , football ! ) especially Leeds a team that I 've benn supporting for close to 20 years now . |
| 20 | Official figures suggest that ACET provided care at home for up to one in four of all those who died of AIDS in the UK last year . |
| 21 | Hundreds of Afghan political prisoners have reportedly been held without charge or trial for up to nine years in interrogation centres and segregated prison blocks operated by the Ministry of State Security . |
| 22 | Since 1970 hundreds of Jehovah 's Witnesses have been detained without charge or trial for up to five years . |
| 23 | They will remain there for up to ten weeks , before being brought into a warm greenhouse so we can force them into flower . |
| 24 | Tests show that on most high performance machines , a spread of splattered flies on the leading edges can account for up to a quarter of the glider 's performance , reducing a glide ratio of 40:1 to less than 35:1 and making a mockery of glide calculations . |
| 25 | ‘ I coach her for up to 15 hours per week , usually early in the mornings , before breakfast , and lunchtimes . |
| 26 | It also performs Wye-Delta transformations ( handy for network analysis simplification ) and defined multi-tap dividers , for up to ten output voltages . |
| 27 | Patients must practise the techniques for up to 20 minutes a day . |
| 28 | The gypsies say they need a site for up to 40 caravans but there is continuing opposition to such a plan . |
| 29 | You waited outside in the street for up to two hours , and then , when you got to the box office , the passes were heaped in no known order , and Tory office girls scrabbled through piles of them as if digging for hidden bones . |
| 30 | Under the Act , the men can be held for up to seven days . |