Example sentences of "[adv] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the South-West , 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000 , mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry . |
| 2 | At any one time there are a significant number of women who are particularly distressed and disturbed serving prison sentences , mostly for very trivial offences . |
| 3 | Britain , after 1945 , still had worldwide markets , but these were mostly for relatively old technology products such as steam engines and steel rails . |
| 4 | " They may have been all right for very old children . " |
| 5 | And it will continue to campaign vigorously for more flexible working , better maternity rights and anything else that will ease the working mother 's load . |
| 6 | The applause that greeted them was like a thunder clap and went on for so long that the Girls could not hear the music and had to count under their breath to synchronize their kicks . |
| 7 | Talks incessantly to the point of forgetting what the original question was , using long , rambling sentences which go on for so long that the interviewee ca n't remember where they started . |
| 8 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 9 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 10 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 11 | But it was Berty getting stuck on the it did go on for so long . |
| 12 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 13 | Now of course the difficulty you ca n't i it 's a personal thing and you do n't like standing watching all this operation going on for too long . |
| 14 | Divorce is common enough for even young children to be aware of it and to fear you may split up . |
| 15 | These are enough for quite extended works . |
| 16 | This is appropriate enough for highly repetitive routine tasks because , as mentioned earlier , the operator is probably proceeding with little conscious attention and the limitation on performance is in the speed of the action rather than in the informational control . |
| 17 | There is even a suggestion that rewards which are routine and expected may be more motivating that the ones given only for extra special effort . |
| 18 | Oak was occasionally used , but only for exceptionally important interments . |
| 19 | They 're only for very small things . |
| 20 | She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients . |
| 21 | Just occasionally , wooden chests were used as coffins , but only for very wealthy people . |
| 22 | Certainly some species are difficult to control because they rest in homes only for very short periods ; the Anopheles bolobacensis group of species in Thailand and other parts of the Far East are good examples of this behavioural problem . |
| 23 | Money was required not only for more powerful transmitters but also for the building of regional studio centres to make programmes for the entire country , so that RTD output would not be so Dar es Salaam-orientated . |
| 24 | This system is suitable only for highly sophisticated programmers , but it has been used to assemble ‘ kits ’ of teaching material from which various teaching packages can be built by the teacher-user . |
| 25 | They had been the more surprised when , at the age of 32 , she had married Sir Henry Berowne , apparently for less obvious qualities , and had given him two sons . |
| 26 | The principal removal mech mechanisms for salts are inorganic precipitation a chemical reaction between the dissolved substance and a particle , such that it then becomes part of the particle and obviously for biologically mediated substances biological processes such as skeleton formation or conversion to biological tissue . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , John was unable to recover from the hunger , thirst and cold he had endured alone for so long and he died peacefully on 3rd November , 1835 , 3 days after he was rescued . |
| 28 | trills , very loud for so small a bird . ’ |
| 29 | Campbell focuses on girl shoplifters , but it should be stressed that other females who shoplift , perhaps pensioners or single parents , might do so for more basic material needs . |
| 30 | Others do so for more earthly reasons : they see the power of women as some sort of threat . |