Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he loses both he will still want to hang on in for the three autumn World Cup games in which England 's fate is still in his own hands . |
| 2 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 3 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 4 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 5 | ‘ This 'll be all right for the Ancient Britons as well , ’ he said brandishing ‘ The Stein Song ’ , 'I 'll give it to Mike when we go over . ’ |
| 6 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 7 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 8 | It was all right for the active partner , but how did the other fellow get his satisfaction . |
| 9 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 10 | ‘ MIPS and Sparc begat Power , which begat Alpha which will beget something new … none will dominate the open-systems market long enough for the critical mass of software needed for long-term success to develop … the future of RISC microprocessors in the open systems market is dead … |
| 11 | At the last the weather has been descent enough for some of the crags to dry out long enough for the new routers to get busy . |
| 12 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 13 | So much for the various qualities of books . |
| 14 | So much for the general account for how ( as I see it ) meaning is achieved in the natural use of language . |
| 15 | So much for the simple carbohydrates . |
| 16 | so much for the new man … what about his partner … what made Glenn Hoddle leave Swindon |
| 17 | So much for the new cars . |
| 18 | So much for the elementary properties of pencils . |
| 19 | So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal . |
| 20 | So much for the third-party element . |
| 21 | So much for the normal life cycle of the virus in nature . |
| 22 | So much for the self-inflicted handicaps . |
| 23 | So much for the radical conscience . |
| 24 | So much for the diplomatic niceties . |
| 25 | So much for the perfect end to a perfect night , she thought resignedly as she walked up the path . |
| 26 | So much for the melodic line . |
| 27 | And thank you so much for the beautiful card , the towel and bookmarks . |
| 28 | So much for the paperless office : Microsoft Corp claims that , stacked up , the manuals for the 100m copies of MD-DOS it has sold would reach to the moon and back — 10 times . |
| 29 | So much for the younger generation and their attitude to the new technology . |
| 30 | So much for the bright side , against which is failure yet to isolate the endothelin-converting enzyme which cleaves the inactive big endothelines ( 38–41 amino acids ) in their active forms ( 21 amino acids ) . |