Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley-Jane will be fine if she just rests up for a few days . |
| 2 | Above all , from a Unionist point of view , the republic 's government has behaved with crass insensitivity in clinging to a constitution that still calls explicitly for a unitary state . |
| 3 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 4 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 5 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 6 | His bill now goes forward for a second reading but stands a slim chance of becoming law . |
| 7 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 8 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |