Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
| 2 | But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time , he was as yet of only limited importance . |
| 3 | But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time , he was as yet of only limited importance . |
| 4 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 5 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 6 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 7 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |
| 8 | She felt poorly for about one month but then seemed to recover and felt somewhat stable for the next 6 weeks . |
| 9 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 10 | Coupled with the appointment of Sir Walter Marshall , an enthusiastic proponent of the PWR , first as chairman of the UKAEA and then of the CEGB , the door looked wide open for a third generation of British built , if not designed , nuclear power stations . |
| 11 | She felt triumphantly free for the first time in her life . |
| 12 | The system of cash planning introduced in 1982 remained fundamentally unchanged for the next decade , but see below . |
| 13 | Already in 1669 there had been an effort to systematise the payment of salaries to English diplomats ; and a fixed scale based on formal diplomatic rank ( ambassador , envoy , minister or resident ) was adopted in 1690 and remained largely unchanged for the next hundred years . |
| 14 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |