Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 2 | When the Cambodian peace talks in Paris broke down in 1988 , it was Mr Solarz , along with the Australian foreign minister , Gareth Evans , who pushed successfully for an expanded UN role in the transitional peace settlement . |
| 3 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 4 | Had he succeeded , Sartre would have established dialectical reason as successfully for the human sciences as Kant had established analytical reason for natural science . |
| 5 | After the Restoration of Charles II Mabbott petitioned successfully for the lucrative office of manager for licences of wine and strong waters in Ireland for himself and his eldest surviving son , Kympton , then aged seven , letters patent being granted in January 1661 . |
| 6 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 7 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 8 | They live wild , occasionally returning to the park , and have bred successfully for the past six years . |
| 9 | Local officials said that the move could result in the police and army being used locally for the first time , but reflected members ' anger and frustration . |
| 10 | The Green Party won representation locally for the first time with 14 seats ; and Sinn Féin won seven seats ( 10 in 1985 ) . |
| 11 | She is also well known locally for the soft toys she makes for various charities . |
| 12 | The wholesale slaughter of these magnificent animals by poachers has been averted to a considerable degree since embargoes have been placed on the exportation of their skins and on products manufactured locally for the Indian tourist industry , such as briefcases , wallets , belts and handbags . |
| 13 | The Da Toto is best known locally for the local dishes served in its good restaurant and Citalia guests will dine on three or four courses each evening of rustic , Tuscan specialities , with the added attraction of unlimited wine and mineral water included in the price . |
| 14 | The Ring of Eight was originally founded to dance at Christchurch Folk Festival but as well as dancing at festivals we also travel to craft fairs around the South of England and perform locally for the National Trust and other charities . |
| 15 | You never know , might be to make enough money to take you out somewhere for a decent Christmas do . |
| 16 | Why do n't you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 19 | To celebrate this , OUP has found 1,000 new phrasal verbs from somewhere for the latter publication to take the tally to 11,000 entries . |
| 20 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 21 | Since the days of Queen Victoria the method of choosing bishops for the Church of England had changed , not wholly for the better . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 23 | The residents were confident that wartime experience would convert many more of their clothed countrymen to shed their garments too — presumably for no other reason than that it eased the problems caused by clothes rationing . |
| 24 | Against the left-hand wall was an assortment of canvas and metal chairs neatly stacked , presumably for the occasional use of the parochial church council . |
| 25 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 26 | Summerchild and Serafin had met , presumably for the first time , on March 7th . |
| 27 | Not only did they bring stretches of water into country often lacking in them , as in many parts of the Midlands , with consequent changes in bird and plant life , but they also brought — mostly for the first time — aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , tunnels , locks , lifts and inclined planes , and many attractive bridges , and they greatly influenced the growth and appearance of many towns . |
| 28 | Agriculture in the south has been restricted to stock-raising , mostly for the local consumption of whaling communities , on some of the peripheral and cool temperate islands . |
| 29 | However , although Professor Plumb suggests the participation of " better-off " tradesmen he clearly sees the leisure industry as catering mostly for the expanding and increasingly prosperous middle class . |
| 30 | THE first Norwegian whalers have put to sea to hunt commercially for the first time since 1987 in defiance of a global moratorium . |