Example sentences of "[vb pp] for a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Removing the ‘ job weeds ’ from my life has made for a less stressful lifestyle and I actually look forward to every day . |
| 32 | In the Cabinet , Callaghan 's open methods and refusal to countenance conspiracies made for a more harmonious atmosphere than ever prevailed under Harold Wilson ( now Lord Wilson of Rievaulx ) . |
| 33 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 34 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 35 | On my left were the high stone walls and pillared entrances of several substantial late Victorian grey sandstone villas , built for a once prosperous merchant class to escape the odours and the bustle of the expanding industrial city . |
| 36 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 37 | An index would be prepared for a very large report but is somewhat unusual for the majority of reports . |
| 38 | The ground was thus prepared for a fully fledged revival . |
| 39 | The soft woods ; pine , spruce or larch are rather vulgar ; but there is something to be said for a really old vintage larch root . |
| 40 | The UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , however , said on Dec. 17 after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers [ see pp. 37931 ] that " I do n't think there is much to be said for an entirely separate meeting " . |
| 41 | In these tests , two lines of obviously different lengths are exhibited for a very short period of time , and the subject has to say whether the right or the left line was the longer . |
| 42 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 43 | He also hinted that a conference expected next year to amend the EC treaty to achieve monetary union should be used for a more fundemental rewriting of the EC constitution . |
| 44 | The next step was to realise and accept that the expertise and advice of the counter-insurgency specialists could be used for a more ambitious purpose than the discomfiture of terrorists — that it could be employed to destabilise the region and in the process to destroy the organisations and popular support of inconvenient , legitimate political opponents of the government . |
| 45 | Actually , shellac was perhaps the least important constituent ; the most important was slate dust , whose abrasive and gritty properties were needed for a rather unusual reason . |
| 46 | Since the number of measurements needed for a reasonably full understanding of any turbulent flow is large , it is highly desirable to make observations of general applicability . |
| 47 | ( The obvious if partial exception here is again Frederick II ; but he never had the material resources needed for a truly Napoleonic strategy and became steadily more cautious and conservative in his later years . ) |
| 48 | Both are needed for a truly human ethic . |
| 49 | One of the fundamental principles behind the concept was that short landing strips for unladen aircraft were more readily found than sites for runways maybe a mile in length needed for a fully laden bomber to get airborne . |
| 50 | McKellar argued that while more than 70 per cent of people answering a questionnaire reported at least one hypnagogic experience the actual incidence may be even higher , as " it can be overlooked for a very long time even by those who subsequently realize that they have the experience frequently … |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 53 | Some of the landforms , especially if they are depositional , may be quickly destroyed , but forms cut into resistant rocks may be preserved for a very long time . |
| 54 | While its report is not so comprehensive as that of Readability Plus , it might be valued for a more succinct appraisal . |
| 55 | Certainly there is an abundance of examples in history to illustrate that failure to redress genuine grievance in its early stages has called for a very heavy price indeed later on . |
| 56 | The parliament has called for a more rational approach to trade and aid schemes as well as investigation into the EC 's role in granting funds in certain cases . |
| 57 | Many analysts had called for a more ambitious target in reducing the budget deficit . |
| 58 | The successful exploitation of silver , indeed the mere winning of the metal on an adequate scale , called for a more sophisticated knowledge of metallurgy . |
| 59 | He attacked any deviation from ‘ class positions ’ in public life , and called for a more vigorous defence of the founders of socialism . |
| 60 | But Eleanor Young , chairman of Darlington CHC and vice chairman of the National Association of CHCs , called for a more flexible approach . |