Example sentences of "[adv] for the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Restoration of Charles II Mabbott petitioned successfully for the lucrative office of manager for licences of wine and strong waters in Ireland for himself and his eldest surviving son , Kympton , then aged seven , letters patent being granted in January 1661 . |
| 2 | Against the left-hand wall was an assortment of canvas and metal chairs neatly stacked , presumably for the occasional use of the parochial church council . |
| 3 | Agriculture in the south has been restricted to stock-raising , mostly for the local consumption of whaling communities , on some of the peripheral and cool temperate islands . |
| 4 | So , the situation in that is quite serious and it behoves us to take it seriously , it behoves us to make sure that if we are putting resources of that magnitude or of any magnitude perhaps , then we have to make sure that they are managed properly for the effective delivery of the services which we intend er that them to be used for . |
| 5 | When he found the door , he pulled off his dressing-gown and pyjamas , turned the handle , slipped inside and dived rapturously for the recumbent figure beneath the bedclothes . |
| 6 | New and increasingly stringent fire regulations have to be accommodated and licensing magistrates — who often care little for the architectural integrity of historic pubs , but are principally concerned with good and easy supervision of the pub clientele — have to be appeased . |
| 7 | Certainly it had a freshness and credibility about it which was in stark contrast to some of the other end-of-the year events which , however exciting or impressive some individual performances and achievements may have been , still involved direct or incidental features which do little for the public perception of the sport . |
| 8 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 9 | At least two departments in France will be focussed on for the detailed investigation of home owners . |
| 10 | King Kong plunging to his death from a great height and the real death of a bird in the sky , events dramatic enough for the whirring imagination of a seven year old to cope with . |
| 11 | Our understanding of each other is adequate enough for the small change of moral discourse , leaving us in no doubt of how most people feel about being murdered , robbed , raped or cheated , but the more sensitive the valuation the less confidently it can be made . |
| 12 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
| 13 | ‘ MIPS and Sparc begat Power , which begat Alpha which will beget something new … none will dominate the open-systems market long enough for the critical mass of software needed for long-term success to develop … the future of RISC microprocessors in the open systems market is dead … |
| 14 | They took me back to London that night , and looked after me carefully all the next day , so that , although my arm was still aching , and I felt very weak , I was fit enough for the planned journey on Wednesday . |
| 15 | But he said it loud enough for the whole restaurant to be convulsed and Ken to enjoy his audience at the same time . |
| 16 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 17 | It 's light , comfortable , and worn over a T-shirt , or even next to the skin , warm enough for the Scottish summer without making you sweat to death . |
| 18 | The problem was to find exports with which to pay for it ; English woollens and iron products were not luxurious enough for the ruling class in India and were far too expensive for the vast majority of the population . |
| 19 | So much for the general account for how ( as I see it ) meaning is achieved in the natural use of language . |
| 20 | So much for the perfect end to a perfect night , she thought resignedly as she walked up the path . |
| 21 | It is a bit much for the hon. Member for Gordon to show a report and to say that it was compiled by Labour-controlled Lothian regional council . |
| 22 | It rests also on the insight that income " transferred " by this means was not used only for the minimum relief of destitution , for the old , widowed , orphaned and infirm , but also for the purchase of some " decencies " , for the supplementation of the earnings of the underemployed as well as the relief of the involuntarily unemployed , and for the apprenticing of the children of the poor . |
| 23 | Only for the tattered bundle of throwaway lamb . |
| 24 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 25 | The All Indonesia Labour Federation ( FBSI ) , a tame ‘ yellow ’ union created by the Suharto regime , signed a collective labour agreement with Caltex , but only for the small elite of core workers . |
| 26 | Mozart , in contrast , is held up as a kind of plaster saint , a spiritual being who lived through his music , pausing only for the occasional game of billiards . |
| 27 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 28 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 29 | In Florida , the Caribbean , Queensland , and South East Asia they may be extremely extensive , and are important not only for the huge variety of life within them crabs , spiders , molluscs — but also for the many creatures that visit them for food ( herons , egrets ) and which breed in the shelter they provide . |
| 30 | On Saturday morning the gates were closed early with thousands locked out , only for the whole day to be lost to the weather ; had just an hour or two 's play been possible there would almost certainly have been a result . |