Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither are the civic groupings planning to hang around much longer waiting for an inter-party meeting to establish common ground and communal tactics . |
| 2 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 3 | With food around , surfaces should bc as practical as possible : choose flooring which will not show crumbs and can be mopped up easily ; sideboards should bc provided with protective covers if they are not heatproof ; traditional polished tables might look good , but with children around , you may be better off going for a heatproof , scrubbable surface which can be wiped over quickly ; upholstery should be washable ; wallpaper need not be as tough as the vinyl-coated varieties . |
| 4 | He said there were three er , down there canvassing for the main parties and er , well quite a lot of people there and of course rich pickings for , providing they can get anybody to stop and talk to them do n't know , they 'd drive around |
| 5 | and actually she 's excellent and I like her not like working for a female boss good people er |
| 6 | They had made the length of Loch Ness in one day , not bad going for an old man on horseback ; ‘ when he rode , ’ says Boswell at the end of the Life , ‘ he had no command or direction of his horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . ’ |
| 7 | We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there . |
| 8 | The photo above shows and some of his team , allegedly at 5.30am enthusiastically waiting for the customary ‘ Go ! ’ from the beach , prior to bursting into life on another action-packed safe day on Brent Charlie . |
| 9 | It is also now analysing for the first time in a quantitative way the changing social and cultural characteristics of small towns . |
| 10 | Again , not everyone — and surely not McGeechan — would view with any great enthusiasm the prospect of returning to the previous law and the spectacle of sundry sides , but England especially , so often merely playing for the next scrum . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe the time is now fast coming for a fresh look at the way we grant planning applications , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Moreover , even today allowing for the enormous growth in monopoly , or oligopoly , in the advanced capitalist countries , the national economies have not yet reached that condition of ‘ rationality ’ or planning in production that Bukharin assumed had been already achieved . |
| 13 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
| 14 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 15 | If you have been told to aim for a very precise figure , or have been following conventional height-to-weight charts , then you are almost definitely trying for an unrealistic weight . |
| 16 | As in the rest of Europe , breeders are now looking for young stock with high genetic potential and are no longer settling for the fancy animal with a borderline production pedigree . |
| 17 | has a wealth of experience in the food ingredients industry both in the UK and abroad and was most recently working for an Australian ingredients company . |
| 18 | The first day of May saw a very early briefing for the 401st , at 0100 hours . |
| 19 | Members of the community association worked very hard preparing for the annual village show . |