Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so , the strengthening of the various associations generated by the inhibitory conditioning procedure would proceed only slowly for a pre-exposed stimulus and this effect could well outweigh any advantage that the existence of a stimulus-no event association might bestow . |
| 2 | His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow . |
| 3 | College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day strike and a total ban on flexible working over pay , the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education announced yesterday . |
| 4 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
| 5 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 6 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 7 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 8 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 9 | Infra-red detectors are very effective devices — they react to body heat , and will leave lights on for a predetermined time after they first sense body heat . |
| 10 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 11 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 12 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 13 | A table-topping rebound next year would not be enough for a quick return if a no-promotion season is declared to accommodate the proposal to reduce League One to 10 clubs — a mad price to pay for an all-play-all format . |
| 14 | So much for a romantic myth that has given Hollywood scriptwriters a nice living . |
| 15 | The conservative teacher who is looking only for a reasonable salary and a peaceful life . |
| 16 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 17 | Mahmud Pasa confesses that such is the case , explaining that Abdulkerim saved him from an addiction to wine which , he implies , would have seriously impaired his chances not only for a successful career but for salvation as well . |
| 18 | … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing . |
| 19 | Many children come into care only for a short time while their parents try to sort out their difficulties . |
| 20 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 21 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 22 | We then test them thoroughly — but often only for a short period as we wish to get the latest fishkeeping news — including the latest products — straight to our readers . |
| 23 | In 1839 he succeeded Stephen Rigaud [ q.v. ] as reader in experimental philosophy ( physics ) at Oxford , becoming responsible not only for a well-established course but also for an extensive collection of apparatus with an endowment for its development . |
| 24 | In more recent times the potential of bilingual education not only for a social elite as was traditionally the case but also for the disadvantaged and/or those already possessing a degree of bilingualism from pre-school experience has been much discussed and researched . |
| 25 | Only for a brief moment while Merrill was changing her shoes did she know a fleeting reservation . |
| 26 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 27 | One would generally expect to pay less for a private company than for a similar public company . |
| 28 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 29 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 30 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |