Example sentences of "for [adj] [conj] [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that turbulence went on elsewhere for each and this third circle linking two others was its own territory . |
| 2 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 3 | Many of the quite commonplace products of modern technology might as well be magic , for all that any normal person could be expected to understand how they work . |
| 4 | A South African foreign affairs spokesman said on Jan. 5 that there had been contacts with Soviet representatives on a regular basis , " for example on the Namibian issue " , and " should we wish to pursue talks we would do so directly " , with no need for Hungarian or any other mediation . |
| 5 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 6 | Mimi Machu , who had been in his life for longer than any other woman , apart from Sandra Knight , left him quite suddenly for pastures new , which some said was due to his own attitude to their relationship . |