Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London , of course , and our Amsterdam exhibition has been trading since the beginning of the year and the price increase is generally coming at the beginning of the season , which is more or less now for the parks , earlier for the exhibitions . |
| 2 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 3 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 4 | ‘ And not just for the boys either . |
| 5 | Mr Vaz said : ‘ City 2020 must be a mirror to our inner cities , demonstrating that our concern arises from the people who live and work there , for their aspirations as well as their anguish , and not merely for the profits to be made from the land on which they walk . |
| 6 | Mr Vaz said : ‘ City 2020 must be a mirror to our inner cities , demonstrating that our concern arises from the people who live and work there , for their aspirations as well as their anguish , and not merely for the profits to be made from the land on which they walk . |
| 7 | So I think that is certainly worth it , if not least for the ladies to consider . |
| 8 | The assumption is commonly made that the decisions to be taken in caring for such patients , the therapeutic strategy to be adopted , are wholly medical matters , and thus wholly for the doctors to make , with or without discussion with the patient . |
| 9 | It is hard for parents to keep faith through lean years , and harder still for the boys , particularly if doubts and pressures filter through to them . |
| 10 | It is harder to recognize the vertebrates as a natural group , and harder still for the molluscs ( snails , clams , squids ) , because the similarity is of basic anatomy , and there are vast differences in shape and habits . |
| 11 | Mr Winchester predictably proves his case for part of the Pacific rim , from Japan round to California , but not for the whole circumference — and certainly not for the islands dotted in the Basin , despite the charming Western Samoan girl who takes his bags at Los Angeles airport and quotes Robert Louis Stevenson to him . |
| 12 | But not so for the Magyars who had been so praised in 1848 , ‘ an obscure semibarbarous people … still standing in the half-civilization of the sixteenth century ’ . |
| 13 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 14 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 15 | The effect of the provisions is to deem the income to be that of the settlor , usually for all the purposes of income tax but sometimes only for the purposes of the higher rate of tax . |
| 16 | His wife explained , but too quietly for the children to hear . |