Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be possible for the same midget ganglion cells to be optimized for both functions . |
| 2 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 3 | hence a larger sample is possible for the same expenditure |
| 4 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 5 | Travelling by train from Gatwick Airport to London , I felt sorry for the many foreign visitors struggling to follow the announcements made over the loudspeaker . |
| 6 | Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows . |
| 7 | He fell asleep for a few hours just before dawn and woke cold and cramped , his head on the small desk , his body somehow wedged on the stool . |
| 8 | High academic success did not come immediately to Roberts — he went as an undergraduate to the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) rather than the prestigious Cal-Tech , because his high school grades were too low for the latter . |
| 9 | Tabitha looked around in vain for a few minutes . |
| 10 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 11 | 2 Heat the oil in a small frying pan and fry the turmeric for a few seconds . |
| 12 | The keel stayed solid for a few moments , then clouded and became clear as glass . |
| 13 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 14 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 15 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 16 | He seemed to consider that for a few seconds and then replied , ‘ Maria Luisa needed me around . ’ |
| 17 | They stayed like that for a few seconds , both breathing hard , their mouths almost touching . |
| 18 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 19 | ‘ It shows that the public is beginning to realise that for a few pounds spent on car security they can protect their second most expensive purchase , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ It shows that the public is beginning to realise that for a few pounds spent on car security they can protect their second most expensive purchase . ’ |
| 21 | Although the analysis of variance for the recoded risk information is slightly different from that for the all the potential risks it is clear from Figure 7.3 that with the exception of the medium risk exemplars the general pattern of results is very similar to that shown in Figure 7.2 . |
| 22 | This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) . |
| 23 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 24 | Follow this for a half a mile , past a huge thatched barn on the right , then Marsh Lodge on the left . |
| 25 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 26 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
| 27 | He pondered the implications of this for a few days , uncertain whether to welcome it or feel alarmed . |
| 28 | It is a good idea to do this for a few more days before the horse travels . |
| 29 | Do this for a few days ( see figure 4 ) . |
| 30 | Nigel considered this for a few moments and then he said , ‘ Tell you what . |