Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 2 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 3 | So Kalmu was launched on a highly successful career as a shamanistic seer and miracle-worker which enabled him to acquire both wealth and power and hence to compensate very effectively for the severe disabilities under which he laboured on account of his low caste origins . |
| 4 | She began a letter a month after their arrival with the words , ‘ Here we are in a large mansion , in a large park , with seventy head of deer around us ’ , before going on to describe a house which contained ‘ furniture enough for a dozen families like ours ’ . |
| 5 | It was far enough from anywhere to be unnoticed , far enough for the loudest sounds to be muffled and lost to passers-by . |
| 6 | Disgusted by his own conceit , Maxim drifted out to the steps down to the lawn — the night was still warm enough for the big windows to be open-flanked by two huge , discreetly floodlit magnolia trees . |
| 7 | So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal . |
| 8 | So much for the elementary properties of pencils . |
| 9 | So much for the various qualities of books . |
| 10 | So much for the basic qualifications of recruits into AIB . |
| 11 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 12 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 13 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 14 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 15 | The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct . |
| 16 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 17 | However , as for small group tutorials , colloquia and seminars are usually held only for the senior years of the course . |
| 18 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
| 19 | Wendell lit a cigar and puffed on it thoughtfully for a few minutes before saying , ‘ Those guardians of yours , Harry — the ones who filched your father 's legacy from you . |
| 20 | Volunteers usually act as ‘ sitters ’ caring for a client while the rest of the family is away , perhaps for a few hours for a weekly shopping trip . |
| 21 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 22 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 23 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 24 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 25 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 26 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 27 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 28 | In addition , the bands detected are rather broad and heterogenous especially for the smallest fragments from Mbo I or Alu I digests . |
| 29 | It 's probably harmless , even pleasantly nutty , and Brand makes a living out of them but there 's another side to his business : the school attracts more than its share of gays , especially for the residential courses in the summer . ’ |
| 30 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |