Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | His preparing himself so keenly for a new and final phase of the war , and then not seeing even the beginning of it , was the final irony . |
| 2 | So much for the brash and brassy singer with the penchant for life 's excesses — she was so squeaky-clean it was an effort to drink the whisky ! |
| 3 | Ingredients are tested for other reasons too not necessarily just for the cosmetic and toiletry trade . |
| 4 | Yet , while the traditional working class had little prospect of improving their economic and social opportunities , this was not so for the two and a half million or so families whose income varied between £2 and £4 per week . |
| 5 | It goes far towards helping to account not only for the high and growing degree of relative autonomy from non-Nazi élites enjoyed by Hitler and the Nazi leadership , but also — as the counterweight to terror , repression , and intimidation — for the weakness of resistance to the regime . |
| 6 | She was just in for a fine and it was her first time . |
| 7 | Yet the movement towards balance is growing , not just for the environmental and safety reasons outlined earlier , but also for social reasons . |
| 8 | The role of chairman of this sub-committee is an arduous one and Beryl was thanked most sincerely for the diligent and conscientious way she had carried out her duties . |
| 9 | The stone floor is now mainly used for storage for the baking business that is still carried on there , although it is still home for a new and completely unused mill stone . |
| 10 | After his experiences photographing there , he found it very difficult to continue the rather dull life of a colonial portraitist , and soon set off again for the strange and exotic land of Siam . |
| 11 | Your old man here has brought me all the way up here for a complete and utter waste of time |
| 12 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |
| 13 | First , although it may not take very long for a trained and experienced therapist to analyse a transcript using LARSP , the procedure itself is relatively technical and is likely to take some time to learn from scratch ( Connolly 1979 ) . |
| 14 | This study has shown that the inclusion of lexical stress reduces the number of word-paths derived from input utterances , significantly so for the mixed and phonemic sets . |
| 15 | This macho stereotype is somewhat unflattering , but there is an element of truth in it — a career in corporate finance is certainly not for the shy and retiring . |