Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 2 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 3 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 4 | Such courses may be of interest to you as a returner but they are not the same as re-entry programmes , and would not be recognised for the same purpose if you ever had to provide evidence of an updating course to your National Board . |
| 5 | It was felt that this type of exercise would probably not be repeated for a few years . |
| 6 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 7 | A tea and dinner will not be paid for the same evening 's work . |
| 8 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 9 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 10 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 11 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 12 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 13 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 14 | In following the same clues as her , he might well be heading for the same destination . |
| 15 | It wo n't be competing for the same resources . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |