Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 2 | New work patterns , such a partial shifts , mean that senior house officers are less likely to work for a single consultant and also make it more difficult for all junior doctors to attend teaching sessions at set times . |
| 3 | Superbly intelligent and well-crafted on record , surfing along upon churning , chiming guitars , Chadwick 's crew have proved unpredictable enough onstage to make for a compelling night out . |
| 4 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 5 | On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period . |
| 6 | The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate . |
| 7 | On mentioning that I was not happy to pay for a second hour of parking , for the privilege of waiting for their delayed train , I was told ‘ That 's no problem . |
| 8 | We have got a well established machinery instituted , we work under that auspices and I believe it is not unreasonable to ask for a substantial wage increase , because after all , a lot of our members depend on family income supplement and rents and rates rebates . |
| 9 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 10 | Feeling reflective and pensive we are more likely to reach for a sensitive ultramarine or restful cobalt than a stinging chrome yellow or vivid lime . |
| 11 | It is far more difficult to account for a further type of confusion . |
| 12 | So for all those reasons , I think my colleagues may be more inclined to go for a cautious approach that 's enshrined in the Peyton approach , than they were back in er June . |
| 13 | A company 's management policies might be just as much to blame for a particular ‘ accident ’ as the actions of the driver , pilot , or captain : Sheen J made this point in his report on the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , but English prosecution practice has tended not to invoke the criminal law against managers of transport systems . |
| 14 | Far better to go for a new IDE drive , or , probably cheaper , invest in some extra RAM and slap a big software cache onto the machine . |
| 15 | Since changes in blood group antigen expression in the colon are associated with dysplasia and may be useful in screening for the development of colorectal carcinoma , we were particularly interested to look for a similar association between inappropriate expression of blood group antigens in the biliary tree and biliary dysplasia and cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 16 | It is trivially easy to select for a particular genetic formula , so long as you can read the genes of all the animals . |
| 17 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 18 | He told me before she came that she was asking for somewhere secret to stay for a short time . |
| 19 | Corporate lawyers are well versed in the marking up of documents for reading so it is quite useful to arrange for a junior member of the lawyer team to undertake the initial mark up . |
| 20 | It 's quite good to work for a big concern like that then really ? |
| 21 | But it is certainly possible to argue for a systemic answer in which nations or cultures or , to use a phrase from Wittgenstein , ‘ forms of life ’ , account for what goes on within them . |
| 22 | If we believe that the child should be placed transracially as an alternative to institutional care , then social workers must resist the massive denial or evasion of the negative consequences of some transracial placements for black children when the substitute parents have not been prepared or perhaps are very unsuitable to care for a black child . |
| 23 | Our sponsored walks/treasure hunts can generate mainstream publicity with celebrity support and a sum like £5,000 can be very little to spend for a thorough branding exercise . |
| 24 | For that period the buyers were therefore without its larger capacity and therefore unable to cater for a larger volume of business . |