Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 2 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 3 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 4 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 5 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 6 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 7 | At least two departments in France will be focussed on for the detailed investigation of home owners . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |
| 9 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 10 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 11 | The serious Christian , set down for the first time in a Christian community , is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it . |
| 12 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 13 | Another £100.000 was put down for the National Union of Journalists , despite its clear and well-known policy of not investing in newspapers because of the inevitable conflict of interest in its role as champion of higher wages for journalists . |
| 14 | Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings . |
| 15 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 16 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 17 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 18 | A clenched fist , a frosty stare or a head-thrust , feet-planted , arms-akimbo posture , being recognizable as proper parts or adjuncts to acts of real violence , can stand in for the real thing in the ritualized ‘ aggression ’ to be described in a later chapter of this book . |
| 19 | Like Marx , William 's grandad went in for the broad dialectic of history and was n't too fussy about the fine print . |
| 20 | Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest . |
| 21 | Wroughton airfield near Swindon was the busiest in the world this weekend , as more than fifteen hundred aircraft flew in for the largest rally of its kind outside the United States . |
| 22 | But you can get it in For the first time at any age . |
| 23 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
| 24 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 25 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 26 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 27 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 28 | And with Robert Jones — another triumphant Lion of '89 — the ace in the Welsh scheme , Australia are in for the biggest examination of their status since they acquired it at Twickenham last year . |
| 29 | Kharif could be thrown in for the Arpal Chase at Kelso ( 1.40 ) . |
| 30 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |