Example sentences of "[verb] for a very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search . |
| 2 | In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment . |
| 3 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 4 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 5 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 6 | The author craves to be forgiven for a very brief self-quotation in illustration of this from a work of his own : |
| 7 | Once he is asleep , he sleeps for a very long time — thousands of years in fact . |
| 8 | ‘ At issue is a major part of the transmission system catering for a very substantial part of the country 's generation capacity . ’ |
| 9 | As a result of more able children taking up integrated placements or moving into school , the Beacon was now catering for a very small number of multiply disabled children , who were highly segregated as a result . |
| 10 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 11 | The four broad types I have mentioned account for a very large proportion of governmental activity , but each could be divided up into a number of smaller functions . |
| 12 | Launch failures account for a very high proportion of gliding accidents , making cable break practice a very important aspect of glider training . |
| 13 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 14 | Well executed joiner work and solid timber nicely matched with face veneers of bulkheads make for a very pleasant ambience in the saloon . |
| 15 | Large leaps make for a very jagged contour , and the total-chromatic is fairly evenly spread , though there is an occasional recurrence of small note-groups . |
| 16 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 17 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 18 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 19 | But then he had already had enough to keep him and many others occupied for a very long time . |
| 20 | WHEN your car wo n't go you send for a very nice man from the breakdown services — but what do you do if something 's not quite right in your £1.85 billion reprocessing plant ? |
| 21 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 22 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 23 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 24 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 25 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 26 | ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’ |
| 27 | Though a fictional character , Cu Chulainn came to stand for a very real sense of patriotic courage and self-sacrifice . |
| 28 | He even has a bushy moustache and cares for a very special princess . |
| 29 | It allows for a very discriminating approach to the question . |
| 30 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |