Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] for a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |
| 2 | If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board . |
| 3 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 4 | The ground was thus prepared for a fully fledged revival . |
| 5 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 6 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 7 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 8 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 9 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 10 | Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today . |
| 11 | All other lorries will have to steer clear of streets originally designed for a more traditional form of transport . |
| 12 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 13 | The walls were lined with bookshelves , each shelf crammed with books , mostly in long sets of leather-bound volumes that looked as if they had not been read , or touched , or even dusted for a very long time . |
| 14 | We had previously gone for a somewhat broader base to the business for perfectly good reasons . |