Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such ensembles were not merely gathered together for the occasional ballet ; there were , in fact , three standing oboe bands at court , or , more accurately , three ensembles whose members played the oboe much of the time . |
| 2 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 3 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 4 | Patients were then treated with 120 mg tripotassium dicitratobismuthate ( DeNol , Brocades , Weybridge , Surrey , UK ) four times daily for one month , 400 mg metronidazole three times daily , and 500 mg tetracycline four times daily taken concurrently for the first two weeks of treatment . |
| 5 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 6 | The prosecution 's success rate does not augur well for the two trials which will really test the quality of Boesky 's information and the deal that he pulled off with government lawyers . |
| 7 | The party 's anger and resentment at the limited nature of government action did not augur well for the smooth functioning of the Russian Parliament . |
| 8 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work . |
| 11 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 12 | The Da Toto is best known locally for the local dishes served in its good restaurant and Citalia guests will dine on three or four courses each evening of rustic , Tuscan specialities , with the added attraction of unlimited wine and mineral water included in the price . |
| 13 | While there are instances of seemingly unnecessarily high pricing , some at least probably arise more from inefficiencies than from exploitation — which of course does not bode well for the long-term survival of those establishments . |
| 14 | An important product , Retardmac , is coming under increasing pressure due to the Government 's desire for permanent re-instatement of roads after patching and this does not bode well for the long-term future of the product . |
| 15 | POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago . |
| 16 | I do not train specifically for the indoor season , but continue to carry out my normal programme of track endurance running , tyre-pulling and weight-training . |
| 17 | The evidence suggests that variations are systematic to an extent , but that this does not account completely for the considerable differences in family support which one can observe in practice . |
| 18 | While these results do not argue strongly for the maternal depletion theory , the findings give it moderate support , attesting to a probable differential in fetal viability with the elapse of varying periods between pregnancies or births . |
| 19 | Without amendments to the law , depreciation charges would mean existing taxpayers effectively paying twice for the same assets , for no other reason than the application of SSAP 12 . |
| 20 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 21 | They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes . |
| 22 | The treble clef is always used even for the bottom notes . |
| 23 | This is a conflict of interest which can not easily be overcome and hardly augurs well for the future reconciliation of the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural rural population . |
| 24 | However , as for small group tutorials , colloquia and seminars are usually held only for the senior years of the course . |
| 25 | The White Paper also recognized publicly for the first time a stark fact that was becoming increasingly obvious : that with the steep decline in the birth rate the number of teachers in training would have to be sharply reduced to avoid a gross overproduction of teachers . |
| 26 | The products of the Dorset potters were probably intended only for the auxiliary forts , as the evidence from Waddon Hill and Nanstallon ( Fox and Ravenhill , 1972 ) suggests . |
| 27 | But you can also settle happily for the sublime views that you have from this generously turf Ed upland . |
| 28 | IRELAND 'S Bruce Topping and Michael Watt both qualified yesterday for the semi finals of the prestigious Glasgow Open Badminton Championship . |
| 29 | You must also listen closely for the vitriolic jewels that emerge from behind the gold-capped smiles . |
| 30 | One of the great benefits of being planted out by a mother church is to have that church often praying more for the new church than for itself . |