Example sentences of "[adj] for a [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organization 's market share had been relatively stable for a long time and even growing in concert with the growth in world economies . |
| 2 | Breaking down the walls of knobache is , of course , the most clichéd subject possible for a pop song but this is both swirly and burly and rarfer tasty . |
| 3 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 4 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 5 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 6 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 7 | Always be alert for a bad swing or a wing-tip touching the ground on take off and have your hand near the release , ready . |
| 8 | Such a speed limit must be unnecessarily low for a well-designed vehicle when well maintained . |
| 9 | This is pretty low for a speculative investment and assumes the company is capitalised at 12.5 times earnings in the year to 31 March 2017 . |
| 10 | Grown in impoverished conditions , the plant becomes stunted but remains alive for a long time while many small shoots develop to give the appearance of an irregularly worn shaving-brush . |
| 11 | Each of us in our judgments complained that the case was unsuitable for a two-judge court and expressed the difficulties which we had experienced in arriving at our conclusions : see per Oliver L.J. , at p. 1202E , and myself , at p. 1211G . |
| 12 | They stayed like that for a long moment and then he said , ‘ Light the candle . ’ |
| 13 | The principle costs , according to the Energy Management Task force , would be £80–120 for the new equipment in each home , plus an installation cost similar to that for a conventional meter and timeswitch . |
| 14 | ‘ Would n't it be better to love like that for a little while than never to know what it is like ? ’ she asked herself silently . |
| 15 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 16 | He seemed to consider that for a few seconds and then replied , ‘ Maria Luisa needed me around . ’ |
| 17 | Cleaned fittings , after disinfection , are re-assembled and the whole is left to air dry for a short period before the empty cabinet is brought down to working temperature and re-filled . |
| 18 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
| 19 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 20 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
| 21 | He considered this for a short time and concluded that he had to make a public stand for those things which he believed . |
| 22 | Nigel considered this for a few moments and then he said , ‘ Tell you what . |
| 23 | He held her like this for a few seconds and then , suddenly , the oddly predatory look left his face and his hands dropped to his sides . |
| 24 | Could you leave this for a few days until I 'm fresher ? ’ |
| 25 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 26 | We have made it clear for a long period that we believe that devolution or independence would damage very severely the degree of inward investment into Scotland and the degree of self-generating investment within Scotland as well . |
| 27 | I love you I love you — it 's become some trilling song popular for a lurid month and then dismissed to the club circuit where pudgy rockers with grease in their hair and yearning in their voice will use it to unfrock the lolling front-row girls . |
| 28 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 29 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 30 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |