Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible to judge whether she was asking because she was interested or merely for the sake of politeness . |
| 2 | At Ayr today , Tom Troubadour , denied a run when slightly injured just before the Ritz Club Trophy Chase at the Cheltenham Festival , should be fresh and well for the William Hill Scottish National , which appears a more comfortable assignment . |
| 3 | This is true not only for ageing but also for the onset of disabilities ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 4 | This is very brief and solely for the record , Chairman , at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry the City Council made one objection , and one objection only , in respect of sites , and that was a site that straddled the York Selby boundary , that was there only expressed concern on sites specific objection , one site in the entire plan . |
| 5 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 6 | Lord Goff , dismissing the Crown 's appeal , said the case was of importance not only to the parties concerned but also for the future of the law of restitution . |
| 7 | For any company with more than 250 employees , give the policy applied by the company during the financial year : for giving full and fair consideration of applications for employments made by disabled employees for continuing employment and training of employees who have become disabled and otherwise for the training , career development and promotion of disabled employees . |
| 8 | The defendant has no doubt gained much skill and aptitude and general technical knowledge with regard to the production of PVC calendered sheeting in general and particularly for the production of such sheeting for adhesive tape . |
| 9 | After this brief period of comparative plenty , the snow returns , covering the high pastures in a blanket too thick and hard for the animals to scrape away with their feet . |
| 10 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 11 | She pretended not to be disappointed and there for the moment the matter rested . |
| 12 | In the 1940s , he worked for the Northern Whig and then for the Intelligence Corps and the Foreign Office . |