Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] 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 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 3 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 4 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 7 | We must rely , as heretofore , upon the social acumen of the judges ; but at the same time we are entitled perhaps to ask for a little more boldness in the formulation of principles . |
| 8 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 9 | The garden at Snowshill Manor is on a small enough scale for a totally organic approach to be feasible , but this is not the case with many of the Trust 's larger gardens where chemicals are still employed . |
| 10 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 11 | The ground was thus prepared for a fully fledged revival . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today . |
| 14 | We could hardly wish for a more graphic portrayal of the son who is tied to his domineering , aggressive mother by ties of love , but who has to be a hero in the eyes of the world to prove his masculine worth . |
| 15 | Some moves have been made to deregulate the private rented sector , but this still accounts for a relatively insignificant part of the housing stock . |
| 16 | You could hardly ask for a more exhilarating way to kick off the week 's traces . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He also called for a more concerted moral drive to check the spread of AIDS ( acquired immune deficiency syndrome ) in Africa . |
| 19 | The stand-in who could also pass for a horribly oppressed 25-shilling Victorian clerk was , of course , Mark Lennox-Boyd , son of the more famous Alan . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All other lorries will have to steer clear of streets originally designed for a more traditional form of transport . |
| 23 | ( Jim is now looking for a completely new team , applications to London West ) |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In his dialogue with Lewis that September night , Tolkien was really arguing for a less human and more ‘ even ’ approach to the Gospel story . |
| 26 | Now ethnic arts is really playing for a very small number of people . |
| 27 | Even allowing for a more diverse class-composition , this village inhabits another world from that other . |
| 28 | The enormous contribution made throughout history — particularly in the arts — to society by homosexuals should surely make for a more tolerant and sympathetic understanding than to refer with such scorn to Wilde 's ‘ abnormal and filthy practises ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |