Example sentences of "[adv] for [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Minister is not prepared to shoulder the burden on behalf of the British taxpayer , is the time not right for him to work with the European Community in establishing a Europewide diversification initiative ? |
| 2 | I was by no means ill , and the ground by the road was firm enough for me to get to the Land Rover without too much of a struggle . |
| 3 | The train stopped there long enough for me to run along the line and climb up into the great diesel engine driven by Bert Coad from Perth and Hilton Hinchcliff from Kalgoorlie . |
| 4 | It was just warm enough for us to sit at the table outside and drink cool wine in the fading sun . |
| 5 | With primordial black holes being so scarce , it might seem unlikely that there would be one near enough for us to observe as an individual source of gamma rays . |
| 6 | You may have put off beginning lace knitting because you know that it requires an extra carriage and one carriage is enough for you to master as a beginner . |
| 7 | As she was led towards the back of it , there was time and light only for her to take in a number of doors on either side , a pervasive smell of must , dark wood panelling , and the central staircase leading to an upper gallery that ran left and right above . |
| 8 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 9 | It took his appearance and speech on 30 September 1942 to dispel such rumours , only for them to recur in the winter of 1942–3 and especially after the Stalingrad disaster . |
| 10 | There would be less and less for him to do without the outlet at the Amtel clinic . |
| 11 | She had forgotten that he was off duty until her vision cleared sufficiently for her to take in the fact that he was wearing a dark suit , the jacket unfastened to reveal a white shirt . |
| 12 | ‘ This point can be proved by the constable dealing with the case describing the place sufficiently for it to come within the definition of ‘ street ’ at ( B ) 2 ante . |
| 13 | Computers do not have the knowledge and experience of the average human reader , so for them to cope with the ambiguities shown above they need to have access to repositories of the different sorts of knowledge . |
| 14 | ‘ The worry was that the ankle might go during a game and that is why it was felt best for me to play in the reserves . |
| 15 | In other words , it is not enough that a cell should be more or less active ; the change must be sufficiently unusual statistically for it to function as a code . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not going to spend big money bringing players over from Scotland simply for them to go through the motions . ’ |
| 17 | After he had taken two large brandies , very fast ( too fast for what looked like a very fine marque ) , he led her over to the sofa and sitting beside her , put his arm around her . |
| 18 | I lay there for what seemed like an eternity and feeling in a sort of panic . |
| 19 | Back in the cottage she took a long , hot bath , but the water failed to ease the tension in her body , even though she lay there for what seemed like an eternity , trying to will away the effects of the afternoon . |
| 20 | It is a choice that is fully there for us to make at the same time and in the same fashion as other countries , except that we have the additional option of deciding that it would not be right for this country . |
| 21 | There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs . |
| 22 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |