Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 2 | You came into the chamber , you were not looking for an almost invisible line of thread running from your bed underneath the door . |
| 3 | ‘ I was not just looking for the most experienced people but there were other attributes I wanted to see , ’ he says . |
| 4 | They were not opting for a particularly expensive scheme . |
| 5 | Companies such as Home Care and Nursing Services , Care Concern and Care Services provide home helps , nursing auxiliaries and care attendants , meals cooked in the home and home nursing for the terminally ill . |
| 6 | Conversely , Henry VII 's shell is more tubular , probably allowing for a more natural appearance of majesty when positioning the funerary sceptres in the hands . |
| 7 | When he played the old rustic Arthur Fallowfield , radio audiences all over Britain — to say nothing of those listening to the BBC 's various overseas services — sat up waiting for the virtually immortal words , ‘ the answer lies in the soil ’ . |
| 8 | But Walker , who is contender for Great Britain 's Olympic team , was clearly hoping for a much better time on what amounted to a solo run . |
| 9 | As a result of more able children taking up integrated placements or moving into school , the Beacon was now catering for a very small number of multiply disabled children , who were highly segregated as a result . |
| 10 | ( Jim is now looking for a completely new team , applications to London West ) |
| 11 | In his dialogue with Lewis that September night , Tolkien was really arguing for a less human and more ‘ even ’ approach to the Gospel story . |
| 12 | Now ethnic arts is really playing for a very small number of people . |
| 13 | Even allowing for a more diverse class-composition , this village inhabits another world from that other . |
| 14 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 15 | Even allowing for the traditionally light-hearted Italian attitude toward obtaining government money , Italy 's wolves number at best only about 150 , including puppies . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |
| 17 | Could we climb that fast , even allowing for the more modest grading of most of it ? |
| 18 | The Financial Times Technical Page , for example , will not appreciate a very chatty approach , whereas teenage magazine editors may well looking for a little modern slang with which their readers might identify . |
| 19 | Even accounting for the generally lower standard of software then , I reckon the reviewers were feeling generous . |
| 20 | Cos there they had a stark choice then of voting for erm a very low community charge and potentially voting for a very high community charge . |