Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 2 | But apparently he 's all right for the weekend because Saturday is a courting-free day ! ’ |
| 3 | It is all right for the hero and heroine to go to bed together , although if they actually make love before they are married , a wedding should follow immediately . |
| 4 | So much for the idea that two-tier pricing will somehow be too complicated . |
| 5 | So much for the claim that science does not involve causation . |
| 6 | Hari took the money out of the old cracked teapot she kept on the shelf , she had just enough for the rent and she smiled in relief . |
| 7 | Fellow Tablers I thank you most sincerely for the honour and opportunity you have given me to become your sixtieth National President . |
| 8 | This time the party campaigned more effectively for the treaty and 60% of its supporters voted Yes . |
| 9 | We share work , whereas once we only shared pleasure , usually more for the male than female . |
| 10 | Further , if a shopper with some perverted sense of humour , intending only to create confusion and nothing more both for the supermarket and for other shoppers , switches labels , I do not think that that act of label switching alone is without more an appropriation , though it is not difficult to envisage some cases of dishonest label switching which could be . |
| 11 | As in other Fugard plays , the woman is the survivor ; Hester leaves home once again for the hardship and loneliness of her life in Johannesburg , without the modest financial help she had hoped her return home would bring . |
| 12 | He had no need of this mewed , motionless falcon , waiting now only for the moment and the means to shake off her jesses . |
| 13 | Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well . |
| 14 | All this accounts fairly satisfactorily for the strength and weakness of glasses , with which are included natural glassy minerals such as flint and obsidian , but then the vast majority of hard solids , both natural and artificial , are crystalline . |
| 15 | Fifth bottom is quite enough for the chairman and the manager to continue their policy of keeping the fans in the dark . |
| 16 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
| 17 | This , then , was the method adopted almost universally for the control and eradication of malaria after the Second World War . |
| 18 | There may well be problems ahead both for the pupil and for the school if the child 's family are not in agreement with the professionals ' decisions about the educational placement proposed . |
| 19 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 20 | and er , which we finished , and I would really just like to say that erm , thanks very much for the cooperation that we received from the offices generally across the authority . |
| 21 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 22 | Okay , thanks very much for the call and raising the question |
| 23 | ’ We commended Mr Canning very highly for the work that he 's done on that particular churchyard . ’ |