Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |
| 2 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 3 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 4 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 5 | This plant needs very special attention and therefore is only recommended for the more experienced aquarist . |
| 6 | But if the public expected from the Berliners memorable Beethoven and even more memorable Brahms ( a Brahms cycle appeared in 1964 ) , they were perhaps less prepared for the miraculously fluid Debussy record that appeared in 1964 — La Mer and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune coupled with the Second Suite from Ravel 's Daphnis et Chloé — or recordings of Sibelius 's Fourth or Fifth symphonies that quite eclipsed the earlier Philharmonia recording , and the Shostakovich Tenth . |
| 7 | There are suits that are better equipped for the more demanding skier and manufacturers who specialise in this end of the market include Nevica , Berghaus , Phoenix , Degre 7 , Powderhorn and SOS who say they are not interested in following ski fashions : ‘ We make heavy duty workwear for people who spend their winters in the mountains . ’ |
| 8 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 9 | The nervous system is composed essentially of ramifying neuroglial cells with supporting and nutritive functions ( Wigglesworth , 1960 ; Smith , 1967 ) and the more numerous neurons , which are highly specialized for the relatively rapid generation and conduction of electrochemical nervous impulses ( Pipa , 1961 ; Landolt , 1965 ; Chiarodo , 1969 ; Sohal et al. , 1972 ) . |
| 10 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 11 | We must rely , as heretofore , upon the social acumen of the judges ; but at the same time we are entitled perhaps to ask for a little more boldness in the formulation of principles . |
| 12 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 13 | The garden at Snowshill Manor is on a small enough scale for a totally organic approach to be feasible , but this is not the case with many of the Trust 's larger gardens where chemicals are still employed . |
| 14 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 15 | If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board . |
| 16 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 17 | The ground was thus prepared for a fully fledged revival . |
| 18 | You came into the chamber , you were not looking for an almost invisible line of thread running from your bed underneath the door . |
| 19 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 20 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 21 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 22 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 23 | ‘ I was not just looking for the most experienced people but there were other attributes I wanted to see , ’ he says . |
| 24 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 25 | We make these plans on an natural level , and yet , we do not plan for the most important event of all time , when we will stand before God and he will ask that question , what have you done with Jesus that is called the Christ ? |
| 26 | Such works are normally used for the most unskilled tasks ; insofar as they receive any training , it is brief . |
| 27 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 28 | They were not opting for a particularly expensive scheme . |
| 29 | According to Thomas Cronin : As Cronin and others suggest , Ford was constantly rebuffed and disappointed by Congress ; his positive achievements in both foreign and domestic policy were few and in any history of presidential congressional relations he is likely to be best remembered for the most extensive use of the negative power of the veto in modern times . |
| 30 | If this were the case then within an individual junction we would expect risk related information to be best remembered for risky exemplars and peripheral information to be best remembered for the less risky exemplars . |